>In less than two years, the CPU inside the TV quickly becomes obsolete If it's Linux based, this just means that the SoC vendor hasn't kept the board support

>In less than two years, the CPU inside the TV quickly becomes obsolete If it's Linux based, this just means that the SoC vendor hasn't kept the board support package (BSP) up to date. These kinds of things are hardly ever mainlined, so it becomes difficult to update drivers, kernel versions and then even software versions (think X11)