I’ve no idea how it works… but our new (all singing/all dancing) LG tv lets us watch some French tv… and we’re still investigating what other marvels are hidden within it… while the weather is too foul to enjoy the great outdoors.
the only link is by basic wifi from the fibre router in one corner of our stone house. we don’t pay for any channels and, in fact, we watch our dvd’s more than tv thingies.
Finally got around to watching the 2003 Johnny English dvd yesterday and laughed our socks off.
Yes it does work on wifi, as do pretty much all smart TVs nowdays!
Our friend @scoutdubna was being a touch pedantic in asserting that it’s the internet connection that provides the TV signal - yes it does, but as Lord @hairbear mentioned, most people then distribute that to their TV or TVs (or other devices such as tablets) via wifi from the router that connects their house to the internet.
The bandwidth of a wifi connection is usually plenty sufficient to carry TV streaming data to multiple devices, and having a fibre connection feeding it is not essential, plain old broadband will do!
What I have discovered, @SuePJ testing my netgem box using my mobile as a hotspot is I can receive all the channels I require just from the internet supply be it cable, fibre, hotspot etc.
I am stupidly paying £10 a month extra for basically renting the netgem box. I have my own 2nd netgem box bought for £20 off eBay and when my contract is up this year I will just pay for the fibre broadband and not the rental of netgem.
Nah - 4 pin Molex
At least SCART normally plugged in OK if you had it lined up - Molex doesn’t even do that. Especially if both end are cable mounted.
Of course JLB didn’t invent the system we use today.
That was PTF.
JLB - John Logie Baird
PTF - ??
I was a little young to be watching Dr Who in 1963 - I don’t remember William Hartnell at all and only some of the later Patrick Troughton.
Ditto
Not necessarily a win - I refer you to the observation by Messrs Pink and Floyd on that score.
Philo T Farnsworth.
In 1962 University Challenge started on TV, much to the joy of my little bro’ who was 8 or 9 years old and an avid reader of anything (encyclopedias et al).
He sat opposite the tv and called out the answers… and we were astounded 'cos he got 'em right!
We should have realised then that he was bound to have an amazing career, bless him.
My husband was on University Challenge in 1969. I was in the audience. Bamber Gascoigne was lovely.
Funnily enough we have been looking for it, whilst packing up our goods and chattels for the move! I think they won one and then lost to one of the teams in the final.
{ show off mode on } I was a contestant on Mastermind in 1988.
I scored 28 points in my heat and came last - two of the others in my heat ended up in the final, so I was unlucky. I did however “win” the rehearsal which was two rounds of General Knowledge questions!
My specialist subject was “The Life and Campaigns of Field Marshal Montgomery”. Purely because I’d been reading a biography of him a week or two before the applications for the show went in. Clearly my knowledge of Monty’s life was not sufficiently in-depth!
I only signed up for it because a friend of mine from university had been on a year or two before and I thought “If Barry Ramsay can do it, I can!” 
It was an interesting experience, but being the BBC not vastly lucrative - I got £50 and a “Mastermind” pen!
{ show off mode off }
@hairbear Looks like that’s just changed.
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This thread is so useful. Smart TV being delivered in Chichester on Feb 11th - maybe then I’ll begin to understand a bit more about all of this..
It’s quite easy Sue, the initial start up will guide you through the setup process and you’ll be up and running minutes, WiFi password is needed.
what a glorious time for you !!!
Dad reckoned our kid could beat all the University Teams, hands-down 
it would have been marvellous to have been in the audience and cheering him on… he was such a clever tiddler.
ah well… that was the dream that never happened, but lots of others did 
And as far as I know it, just to clarify, I’ve had the impression that amongst his other talents hairbear’s professions included being an engineer in such types of things as satellite boxes, other TV bits, and related things. So I would say there is a degree of knowledge there 
Absolutely, been very helpful on the satellite 4K boxes.
Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
Stayed up to watch the landing, and Neil Armstrong’s “one small step”. 
