What can TV sets do today?

This is how I am writing my entry today, because why not?

I was living alone for the last couple of months, and my parents insisted I should get a television so I wouldn't feel alone. In the other houses I lived we didn't have a TV set, and I wasn't interested in the one that my parents have. 

Since we are living in 21^st century, I wanted to get a TV that can do more. First of all, they have Wi-Fi connections now, 10 years ago I would have asked “but why?” Now I am having a hard time understanding why would they still making TV sets without wireless connection. As we spoke in the class, even the remote control is a miraculous gadget that lets us sit or lay still while watching TV. Before and after the remotes I was only aware of 4 buttons, to change the channel or volume. My remote now has a Netflix button, a button to choose my favorite channels so I can change between them easily, a 3D button (I don’t think it would work though), a button takes me to applications and bunch of more buttons I don’t really know what they do.

Of course only thing different is not the remote, the TV itself also changed a lot. When I was growing up we usually watched the TV in my brother’s room. I used to connect the DVR machine to watch cartoons and to do that I actually had to remove the antenna, because there was only one socket for cables. Now my TV has USB and HDMI sockets, and I clearly remember that most of the computers did not have them when I was in middle school.

So what do I do with the TV? First of all I can watch the mainstream Turkish broadcasts, any dizi or news. I have several applications; I don’t know the 80% of them. I can choose from Netflix, BluTv, PuHuTv, some channel applications or YouTube. Of course it is easier to find the video I want to watch from a mobile device and send it to TV. I wouldn’t even imagine that 10 years ago with my old mobile phone and the TV set we had. I also use HDMI to connect my computer so I can play video games in higher quality, or even write my assignments. I can also simply use a USB drive watch movies, even with subtitles, from my living room sofa.

Since I am not a tech person, these are the only things I am able to do with the TV, if you know other things that we can use the TV for please comment and I may try with mine.