On Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 6:35:24 AM UTC-5, Opinicus wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 23:31:43 -0600, Sqwertz >
> wrote:
>
> > The best way to stream videos is VIA an HDMI cable out to your TV,
> > and set your TV as a second monitor (or external monitor on a
> > laptop). Use your wireless mouse as the remote.
>
> That's the solution that I came up with too. I also use a wireless
> keyboard (Microsoft) that connects via the same USB receiver as the
> mouse (also MS), thus freeing up a USB port on a machine that only has
> two.

My smart TV seems to handle all the streaming for me. Before
that it was my $80 DVD player. Before that it was an Apple TV.

If there's any contention about what to stream (and there never
really is, because I'm always happy to read while he watches TV),
there's a PC in the home office with a 40" monitor.

Cindy Hamilton