OK, there's a football game on this evening, let's see if we can get this whiz-bang whos-er-whatsit working. Wireless networking isn't, so let's hook up a wire. That takes some fiddling, but I got it connected. Now for the sound. That takes more fiddling and I end up pulling the speakers off my wife's computer and using them. None of the whiz-bang digital gizmos hooked to the TV can handle a simple matter like audio. This takes all afternoon, but by game time, it's all working and we've got ESPN on the screen, over the internet.
The picture is not quite I was expecting, it's kind of jerky, kind of grainy, and you get blurred spots. Maybe this Zotac computer doesn't have enough horsepower to process the compressed video that's coming over the wire. But wait a minute, the ROKU box doesn't have any trouble like this. OK, it might have a little trouble, but nothing I have seen using the ROKU has been anywhere near as bad as this. What we have here with Zotac and Linux looks your good old standard TV, or even VHS. You remember VHS, don't you?
And the ROKU box is tiny compared to the Zotac, and it doesn't even have a fan. Somebody or something is not quite right here.
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