Now my LG and me

I recently bought a LG smart HD TV to replace my 10 year old wide screen Sony TV. Great decision, lovely TV. It came with a 3 month subscription to Sky NowTV movies and 6 sport day passes.
So far,  so great until trying to get NowTV to work. Try as I might I had no joy. Contacted Nowtv bods though they were no help.

Just today though found a tid bit of info on the great inter web which has some my problem. So here I am passing on the same to those who find themselves in the same predicament of "cannot contact stream", "oops we have a problem" or any of the other cannot stream to you messages.

It is as easy as entering the IP address details manually (set up automatically and then go to manual, take note of the settings and re-enter manually) and then enter the following for the dns entry,  4.2.2.2 (why? No idea but it works.  Info care of a page on the Now TV community board)

Voila! working NowTV through your LG TV.  Wonder why this Info is not displayed prominently on the website? Off to tell them now.

My digital journey

Around 6yrs ago, I started pushing myself digital, just as my son turned two. His age is important, as this was the age he started visiting the bookcase which held the CDs and DVDs to unpack it on a daily basis, all over the floor.
So after some investigation, I bought a popcornhour A110, ran network cabling, setup a freenas server in my loft and ripped my CDs and DVDs onto the server.
At the same time another strand of my life led me to install a VoIP capable wireless router and setup our landline phone to make calls over the internet and accept calls through a standard landline.
My documents I scanned and stored electronically on the server and other word processed docs were stored on the server.

That was but six years ago and now that whole setup, though still used is looking very dated. A lot has changed in 6 years.

Now you can stream movies through to your TV. I can even stream movies via my tablet to my (dated) popcornhour. Will have to upgrade to stream directly via my A110.

Now you have the ability to store your documents easily in the cloud, where you can access from any device in any location. I am still slowly moving my applicable documents into the cloud.

My VoIP setup is the only piece that does not look like it is particularly dated, though I can just make use of my mobile to call via the same VoIP network now.

That is in just 6years. Imagine what another 6 will bring.