Kind of a funny story, I think, but I'm easily amused so, as they say, your mileage may vary.
Sometime last year - probably almost a year now, I don't know, my time sense is almost totally gone - our son (adult, lives upstairs in our house) complained that the TV (yes, the only one in the house; we're weird) was making an annoying high pitched noise and wouldn't watch TV with us anymore and that's kind of a big deal to me. I like to watch TV with my son, like I used to enjoy watching TV with my mom.
His dad and I could not hear the noise at all, not even a hint of a noise. The TV was, and still is, working perfectly just as it has for more than 10 years. But we decided we could solve the problem by buying a sound bar. We had thought about buying one anyway, though not very seriously. Apparently the soundbar did solve the problem. Son is happy to watch TV with us again.
Several years before, we bought a DVD player with the intention of using it both to watch DVDs and to stream Amazon Prime Video. But it turned out to be crap for streaming. It was either buffering more than half the time or wouldn't work at all. We assumed the problem was our best we can get out in the boonies Internet connection and gave up for a while and did a lot of bitching and whining about how unfair it was that we couldn't stream video like normal people.
For some reason we finally decided maybe we should try a better DVD player/streaming device. This was after the purchase of the soundbar. We read reviews. All the reviews said all the DVD players are crap for streaming and a lot of them said we should get a Roku instead. So we did and (heavenly light, angels singing) it worked and we love it! Oh my gosh! Life changing! But now it requires four remotes to watch TV: the TV remote; the DirecTV remote, the soundbar remote, and the Roku remote. (Yeah, we're not giving up DirecTV, for a number of reasons, the main one being that we're old and pig-headed)
So just like every company you ever buy anything from, Roku started sending me emails trying to get me to buy more stuff and that's how I found out that Roku soundbars exist. Why couldn't anyone have told us that before we bought the soundbar? (several really bad swear words) To think! We could be using only three remotes to watch TV instead of four!
I do kind of want a new TV and we could easily afford a very nice one but both of us have always been conditioned to wait until things do not work at all anymore before replacing them and did I mention that we're old and pig-headed? So anyway, that's the story and we're just sitting here wishing for the TV to hurry up and quit working. It's an LG, by the way. The darn things last forever.
