Some time ago Marion made a remark to me that it would be nice to have TV in my bedroom, just as she has at her home. At times she likes to watch a bit TV before going to sleep. But at the same time she made the remark that I should not spend too much money on that. It was not that important.
For some time I did not think too much about that remark. Until today…
By pure coincidence I found the manual of my 24 Inch monitor. I browsed a bit through the manual and there I read something that I already knew “is fully capable of play HD content”. Don’t know why I never thought of this before, but this monitor can be used as HD TV. The monitor has even internal speakers.
After making this conclusion, all the rest went very fast…
Last year I bought a interactive decoder (with hard disk) for my HD TV/Media set in my living room. This new decoder replaced my old more simple older decoder. But basically there was nothing wrong with my old decoder apart that it didn’t support certain functionality I wanted to have for my media set. But for the bedroom it would be more then enough…
Even the connections would be not a problem. When I bought that interactive recorder a 4 ports repeater came a long with it (a repeater is a device that increases the incoming signal to higher/stronger level). Wel, one port is used for the Internet modem. The second port is used for the media set in the living room. So that leaves two ports unused.
So all I needed was a coax cable to connect the old decoder to the repeater and a HDMI cable to connect the monitor to the decoder…. well, those I had to buy. So lets say for about € 20,00 (for the two cables) I have TV in my bedroom. And to be honest, it works very nice!!!
Future plan is to buy a (second-hand) HD TV or monitor that can play HD content that I will mount to the ceiling of my bedroom (there are special mounts available for that). Must say I like it 🙂