Flat screen

I found some information online that many of the flat screen tvs use parts from Amtran in Taiwan, especially Vizio and JVC. At Costco today I saw a 47" tv for $450 (bought the floor model) and bought it while ignoring all the advice everyone gave me. It's our first and we are like cavemen before the monolith. We just have an analog antenna hooked up and don't get cable, and will mostly use it for streaming Netflix and Hulu once I attach a Roku or find a Thunderbolt cable for the Macbook. My wife started calling me a consumer-puppet and then nicknamed me "Kermit" and has been making frog noises all day.

craniac wrote: I found some information online that many of the flat screen tvs use parts from Amtran in Taiwan, especially Vizio and JVC. At Costco today I saw a 47" tv for $450 (bought the floor model) and bought it while ignoring all the advice everyone gave me. It's our first and we are like cavemen before the monolith. We just have an analog antenna hooked up and don't get cable, and will mostly use it for streaming Netflix and Hulu once I attach a Roku or find a Thunderbolt cable for the Macbook. My wife started calling me a consumer-puppet and then nicknamed me "Kermit" and has been making frog noises all day.

I have an older model Roku. Let me know if you want it. They kick ass. Pick up an HDMI cable from monoprice and you'll be set.

You can stream to Roku from a decent Mac with Plex. S'mazin.

craniac wrote: I found some information online that many of the flat screen tvs use parts from Amtran in Taiwan, especially Vizio and JVC. At Costco today I saw a 47" tv for $450 (bought the floor model) and bought it while ignoring all the advice everyone gave me. It's our first and we are like cavemen before the monolith. We just have an analog antenna hooked up and don't get cable, and will mostly use it for streaming Netflix and Hulu once I attach a Roku or find a Thunderbolt cable for the Macbook. My wife started calling me a consumer-puppet and then nicknamed me "Kermit" and has been making frog noises all day.

I'm not sure if it's the same everywhere, but in my major city we get ABC/NBC/FOX/CBS and some local channels in HD using an antenna. We bought the Terk HDTVa for about $40 through Amazon and it works pretty well. We have the antenna, blu-ray player, and roku; no cable.

We are getting 45 channels from our roof antenna. Which Roku are you selling?