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I'm still hoping the smart TV thing will turn out to be a brief fad, and we can all get back to just buying a dumb screen that other things can be plugged into.
by jon-wood 11y ago
I'm still hoping the smart TV thing will turn out to be a brief fad, and we can all get back to just buying a dumb screen that other things can be plugged into.
The software on TVs I've experienced is universally awful, my parent's one is particularly bad - you can go and make a cup of coffee in the time it takes for the Netflix app to start. When I heard that I bought them a FireTV stick and haven't looked back.
- DanBC 11y agoI'm surprised there isn't a Rockbox for TVs yet.
- Nursie 11y agoThere are some projects making baby-steps but I'm not sure how far they got. For Samsung TVs the SamyGO project can do some stuff - http://www.samygo.tv/ http://www.samygo.tv/ - but it's more about hacking the existing firmware than making an open replacement.
- davito 11y agoYou hope? Why do you expect this to be a fad in the very end. Oh I also think TV's should all be about we glamouring for the resolution. Seems 4K is here to win.
- _lce0 11y agoI hope the same. TV, as pretty much every device, should be as dumb as cables .. must be reliable and work with pretty much anything that it's plugged to, no matter what that is
- skrowl 11y agoStupid licensing will prevent this, I'm afraid. I have a nVidia Shield TV plugged in to my 4K Smart TV that I do almost everything on, but I still have to use the smart TV app for Amazon Instant since Amazon stubbornly refuses to release it for stock Android.