A Smart TV at Low Budget

You spend a significant amount of time in front of the idiot box. You may want to stay connected to the world in a smarter way, but may hesitate due to heavy expenditures. Buying a television with smarter features can make a hole in your pocket. So act smart in time and utilize these 5 ways that will save your pocket while giving you a smart television. Listed below are few that when used along with your old television can boost up the display and features which are web enabled.

Portable Media Players

Starting with the interest of those people who are going tight on budget, these portable media players resemble almost a USB drive and can transfer content, pictures, music and videos from a PC, Smartphone or tablet to the TV screen and that too wirelessly. This immensely requires a Wi-Fi router at the home. The only constraint to this is that it comes from companies that have no significant presence in the country and have been tried by only few people.

Portable Media Player from BiggiFi

WD TV Live Hub, iOmega ScreenPlay DX HD

The set-top box type media players are an excellent option to make the television smarter. The WD TV live hub that costs around 12,500/- and iOmega ScreenPlay DX HD costing 12,000/- are 1TB boxes that use proprietary interface and have a built in hard disk. The WD TV Live Hub is perfect for playing personal content and accessing pre-loaded web services like YouTube, Flickr and TuneIn. The iOmega ScreenPlay DX HD is best suited to surf the web as it has a browser and a small keyboard to make typing easier.

iOmega ScreenPlay

Amkette EvoTV This is an android based set-top box for media play. It comes in four different versions ranging from 5.500 INR to 10,500 INR. Being run on android it provides you with apps from Google play store and a browser. It also allows for attaching a USB keyboard to these kinds of media payers to make typing easier. The best advantage of the gadget it that it lets you download and use applications of one’s choice.

Amkette EVO TV

 Google Chromecast This is the most cost effective and easy to use gadget for your television set. This is how the device needs to be used.·         The Google Chromecast just needs to be simply plugged in one of the free HDMI ports of the television and its micro USB port to one of the free USB ports on the TV or any alternate device.
·         Then using TV remote switch to that HDMI source and using the instructions mentioned connect it to the existing Wi-Fi network at your place.
·         Next thing to do is to download the Chromecast app on your TV/Laptop or Smartphone and connect it to the same existing Wi-Fi network.
·         Run the application and follow the further instructions to link the device to the adapter.
Google Chromecast is available unofficially at eBay and Amazon for a mere amount of 3,999 INR.

Google Chromecast

Videos from BoxTV, BigFlix, Spuul, NexGTv can also be viewed on the big screen if you have at all subscribed to these services. Moreover, Full HD videos from YouTube can be displayed on the TV screen. The device has made the small screen experience come live on the big screen by just adding a little of capital.

Apple TV

The Apple TV is yet another fantastic media player for the iPhone/iPad users. This allows you to stream videos, movies and songs from your iOS devices. This does not allow for storage but you can rent or buy movies from the Apple TV. Unlike the Chromecast, it does not have a USB port that disables playing movies off the pen drives.

Apple TV

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