Getting your Expat ‘dream-box’ and making your TV happy

Getting your Expat ‘dream-box’ and making your TV happy

Away from home and wanting to watch the news, a favorite series or movies on demand? For those with a laptop, the web is usually the way to go, but finding a show may require more know-how than just searching for a name on Google. Besides, viewing TV on

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Thu 30 Jan 2014 1:00 AM

Away from home and wanting to watch the news, a favorite series or movies on demand? For those with a laptop, the web is usually the way to go, but finding a show may require more know-how than just searching for a name on Google.

Besides, viewing TV on a small PC screen may be interrupted by annoying e-mails, notifications and pop-ups and you may risk damaging data.

 

The answer for those who would prefer to relax in front of the TV is to get a smart media-center device and retrieve shows from the web using a standard remote control. Once hooked up to the back of a regular TV set, installed and set up properly, a smart media center device searches for shows and suggests the best Internet sources by listing them on the screen. Unlike certain products that deliver only content filtered by the manufacturer, a custom-programmed media-center has no limit on the number of free TV channels, radio stations and movie databases available to viewers. Watching channels like CNN, BBC, Fox, NFL, Bravo or movies in English from Netflix-like services becomes as easy as watching local Italian TV channels.

 

There is a wide range of products, from basic media-center adapters that can be connected to a TV (up to 200 euro) to high-end ‘smart TVs’ that are fully equipped with CPU, operating system and media-center software. An experienced technician can set up the smart TV system, complete with programming, subtitles, Wi-Fi, wireless speakers and remote control.

 

 

For information about media-center devices or to request a free demo, contact FreeCast Services at 348/1520200 or email FreeCastinfo@gmail.com.

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