6mo ago

Smart TV OS Alternative

Good day! I am trying to find a good alternative as not to use the"smart" functions or using an Xbox to consume our media. I found a few options ie like plasma big screen but it's no longer in development. Essentially I would line love to have it running on an rpi4 and just hooked up to the TV.

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The main issue for me is not finding a device to play content, but a dumb screen that is not a potatoe. A 4k HDR OLED Screen without any smart features is basically nowhere to be found
- I mean... just don't connect it.
- A TV that isn’t connected to a network is a dumb screen.
  
  not entirely,
  dumb tv turns on in maybe up to 3s
  while "smart" tv still needs more than 30s
  so now you have crapiest dumb tv on your hands
You could install android on something, and run one of the open source TV launchers
- Is it any good?
  
  I've done that and as long as you don't need one of the mainstream streaming apps, it seemed to work well . Just give it a try. It's not a lot of work.
  Edit: As far as I remember it, it didn't have (the needed?) DRM support
  Edit2: Tested on RPi5

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