4 things to consider before plugging a streaming stick into your monitor

For a long time, the TV in my family’s dining room was an Insignia Fire TV. Since Fire OS tends to come to a crawl on anything but the best equipment, I paired it with an Apple TV 4K that used to be the one for our living room. The Insignia set gradually failed, eventually becoming unwatchable — so in a pinch, my wife decided to replace it with a monitor she wasn’t using.