The OP thinks he's got problems with Domestic TV Politics?
Last week I acquired a new and better TV which I decided deserved to be between my Hi Fi speakers. I moved an armchair which nobody ever sits in to make space between my speakers for the TV and put the armchair where the old TV had been. This meant I had to put a powerline adapter on a socket close to my hi fi and run an ethernet cable from it to the TV. Then I had to pull the Virgin cable off the wall and doorframe on one side of the room and run it round to the new TV position.. temporarily. Next up, a temporarily positioned digital optical 'cable' from the TV to my DAC and finally an extension lead /4way socket thing to give power to Virgin Box, TV, DVD etc. Finally, I had to go into the loft and disconnect a redundant FM radio aerial and then connect its wire to the loft mounted TV aerial booster amp, to provide a terrestrial TV signal through what useter be the aerial outlet for my old radio tuner.. close to my hi-fi kit.This last was a tactical move as it is imperative that Mrs Mull can view 'The Sewing Quarter' every day and it's not available via Virgin.
Total time.. about 2 hours.
This was, I can confirm.. a very much shorter period of time than that taken up by the ensuing 'domestic', when Mrs Mull decided that the new TV position caused her to move her head through approximately 3 degrees of arc in order to watch TV 'on axis'. This was clearly unacceptable. The fact that the new TV position provided infinitely better sound and brought all seating in the lounge into at least tolerable, if not necessarily optimal TV viewing parameters, counted for the square root of bugger all. The fact that with the TV in the 'approved' position I have to turn my head through about 30 degrees to see most of the screen( except the bit which gets obscured by a chimney breast) is also clearly of no relevance whatever in the super logical world of the female of the species.
The 'domestic' also ranged into other issues, such as accusations that my speakers are 'in the way'. A Red Line of Brexit proportions which WILL NOT BE CROSSED.... I counter argued that the only thing in the way were my great piles of CDs because there's no storage space left in the house, because female logic dictates that every space must be filled with crud which does not get used and never will get used. Apparently... 'that's what cupboards are for!!!'
So, I undertook to remove my CDs from sight and was given tacit approval by the words 'Do what you like'.
And that, my friends, is why I went out and bought an Innuos Zen Mini.
No questions have been asked as to the function... purpose, or most of all. cost.. of said kit.
I believe I win......