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Many movie disk purchases include an alpha-numerical key for digital downloads of that movie. Go to a site that accepts such keys, enter the key and you will be able to watch that movie, using online streaming, and without your disk. The best known, Ultraviolet, closed recently but a new one, MoviesAnywhere has opened. Vudu also accepts digital keys. I have discovered a way to make my purchased collection available to the TV. A while back, I purchased a 4K UHD blu-ray copy of the movie Independence Day (1996). I think that is one of the movies, that I like, that will improve on a 4K screen. Some movies are better suited for 4K UHD than others. I had also, previously, purchased the full Game of Thrones series on blu-ray discs. Neither of my blu-ray players supports 4K UHD disks. This was frustrating to say the least. Now, several months later, after some web reading, I managed to find a round-about way. Currently, several of the online movie/TV-series clouds have allowed us...

This is the system I have currently: LG 55" SmartTV 4k HDMI (wall mounted) Legacy VHS recorder/player and laptop dongle with app. ALtec LAnsing Valencia speakers bi-amped and run with: Pioneer VSX-42 500 watt AVR The Valencia crossover filters have been remade into four filters, placed in a custom box. One each, for the horns and woofers. A B&O RX-12 turntable with ESP RIAA filter, custom boxed, with B&O #4 equivalent cartridge-needle. The Valencia speaker horn compression drivers have been replaced with inexpensive Chinese knock-offs. A set of MidWest Speaker after market replacements are in stock. A repair kit for the original set is also stocked. Polk Audio sub-woofer Sennheiser headphones Dr Dre Beats earbuds Pioneer Blu-ray recorder/player for laptop Samsung stand-alone Blu-ray player Six hard drives; 5x1TB and 1x4TB for a total of 9 TB of data storage Channel Master antenna signal amplifier. Antenna signal splitter Asus x510UA laptop w'i5 8th G...

The LG SmartTV has an operating system installed, just like a personal computer. The one on my laptop is Windows 10 Pro. I also have one of the many 'flavors' of Linux installed inside the Windows operating system. The one on my Apple cell phone is iOS. The one on my Raspberry Pi is 'Raspbian Buster', before that, 'Raspbian Stretch' was resident. The one on the TV is WebOS. That operating system is used by LG for many devices. I also have an LG washing machine with wifi capability using that operating system. The system was made open source some time ago. That means, interested people can contribute to the evolution of the software, or make a spin-off of the own. I'm considering the options available using a custom build of the software. I hope to make saving video data for future viewing opssible. Some LG models have/had a recorder on board. My model does not. The Sony Betamax law lets people make copies of electonic media for which they have leg...