Could you recommend a choice or guide my thinking on buying some device for watching television while I use the treadmill?
I’m thinking something in the iPad size range to rest on the “dashboard” of the treadmill. I think 8" or 10" diagonally is enough. I’ve used a very old iPad happily, but it’s hard to keep it updated and growing incompatible. I just used my iPhone 13+ Pro, and it was kinda OK but the picture was too small.
I was thinking of getting a current iPad, but they are quite dear, and have a lot of capability (camera, apps, syncing across iPhone/iMac/iCloud) that I don’t intend to use. In fact, I’d probably pretend not to be myself when setting up an iPad, just to avoid having it link with every other device in my world. There’s a $450 model that appears satisfactory, if I have to spend that much, but tuppence is tuppence.
Maybe one of the other tablet brands? But I don’t want to fight software problems, I want the setup simple.
Or actually buying a television set, per se? Do they still make little ones? A little browsing suggests they’re about a yard in size to start, much bigger than I want, too big. We do own a big television set but I don’t even know how to operate it. My spouse hogs all the controls. And it’s too complicated and has too many quirks (why is the sound half a minute out of sync?).
I have accounts with Netflix and Amazon Prime, which I figure is probably plenty. We also have accounts at a bunch of other services that I didn’t set up, and I’m not inclined to mess with them.
What say the Dopers? What’s my pleasant little solution, something that doesn’t age into incompatibility faster than I can track it?
Thank you!