Back on Saturday our new “Home Theatre Personal Computer” arrived. It’s a little Dell Zino which would have been a really buff desktop machine a few years back. It’s actually smaller than Corwin’s XBox but runs Windows 7, streams HDTV from the network, and plays DVDs. Alice likes the cute little remote it comes with, although not enough to learn how to play things by herself. Charles was convinced to like it by installing the game Spore on it. I put a wireless keyboard and mouse on it which can be used from the couch, although the kids like to sit a lot closer than that.
We had had one of the boy’s old game boxes there but it never worked that well and would just shut itself off every so often, more and more frequently in the last couple of months. It’s worked well enough that we got rid of our dedicated DVD player (which was at least 5 years old, if not more). So we have fewer devices and they’re smaller which is an improvement. We did keep the same computer name of “Vidiot”.
Charles having a Sporific time gaming on the big screen