What use is WiFi on a Costco Viso TV?

Don't think blue tooth is not on the TV. I have an AMD A10 laptop dedicated as HTPC. Laptop connects to AC2600 router on 5GHz. My down load speed is 50mbps solid. No problem even real time streaming 1080P,4K UHD, 3D videos. Native 4K material is rare but A/V receiver upscale to

4K on 4K 60" set. Our HT is 7.1 set up. Biggest I could afford for the family room space. For storage I have small 4 bay Synology NAS with 4x2TB WD Red drives.(not powerful enough for some codec)

In sci.electronics.repair, on Sat, 5 Sep 2015 04:43:38 +0000 (UTC),

I don't have a new tv.

Thanks but won't work for me. You've come in in the middle of the story, Not worth repeating it.

THat probably is a very good and simple idea. Connecting laptop or tablet to use as primary display and big creen TV set as a duplicate display.

Micky, B4 asking whole bunch of questions, you ought to search for your answers on the 'net. Specially Youtube gives lots of visual demos. Be specific when you have questions. Like telling us what you have and what you are trying to do and what problem you are running into or something you don't understand. As far as TV set goes, we're in HDTV era and HDMI cable takes care of a/v hook ups. When you mention WiFi, then do you at least have a router for your home network in your home?

Nothing to do with wires, just turning on the tv to watch, it takes to to boot, and you must wait in order to change the channel. Mikek before

I don't have direct tv. My router does not have a coax input.

I thought that was a coax cable coming out of all those direct tv antennas I see on houses.

If the output of Direct TV is coax, how does that coax get "into" your network?

It can't go through the router. How does it get into your router without a coax connector on the router?

I guess a USB wired mouse and keyboard would be useful.

Do most of these WiFi TVs have the ability to accept a typical USB mouse and keyboard?

I went over to a friend's house who had a new samsung wifi tv and the browsing was so slow that I'd say it's unusable for two reasons:

1. Typing the URL with the remote was punitive, and,
2. Once you had the URL, the time to load was interminable.

This might just be a bad Samsung TV, but, wow. It's great for checkboxes but it doesn't work in real time.

That's bad too. I hate my smart phone because it takes so long to turn on, and 5 steps to turn off. The "bar" phone I used to use turned on or off in a second or two.

My Philips DVDR, which does it's main job very well but has a bunch of design flaws, takes noticeably longer to change channels than does the Zenith set-top box.

The output from the Direct TV is a coax cable, right? How does that coax cable connect to your router?

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It doesn't. The TV network connection is via the common wireless or ethernet cable.

So, help me here.

Let's say the DirectTV dish is on the roof, and it has a coax cable that goes down the side of the house, through a wall, to a wall plate.

From that wall plate, how does "it" (i.e., the tv signal) get on my "network"?

You said the tv signal gets into the network via either the wireless connection or through the wired ethernet (cat5) cable.

But, how does that coax cable tv signal get to either one of those (i.e., how does the coax connect to the wifi or the ethernet cable)?

Oh. That explains it!

So, the coax cable that comes out of the dish on the roof then goes into a "box" which has, as outputs, either coax or RJ45 or a wifi antenna?

Is that correct?

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There are 'cable' systems that provide Ethernet I/O, and satellite systems that provide an Ethernet socket (on older ones, telephone modem), which is intended for Internet connection through your OTHER network services. Satellite receivers rarely include any transmit-back-to-the-sat ellite provisions, meaning they don't support full internet connection.

DirecTV says "we bundle with top internet providers", because the internet service is distinct from the satellite receiver of television prog ramming.