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Hard same. An underrated feature of the ATV is that it will reach out and prompt you to use a keyboard on your phone when you need to enter values onscreen, whi
by ubermonkey 2y ago
Hard same. An underrated feature of the ATV is that it will reach out and prompt you to use a keyboard on your phone when you need to enter values onscreen, which is WAY better than the character-by-character selection you get with lesser devices.
We got our Samsung on a Black Friday sale in 2019. It's capable of being online, and we briefly experimented with using those features -- not the streaming apps, but the ability to have it show art or amusing graphics when idle. Ultimately I decided whatever info that was leaking wasn't worth it, and so I blanked the wifi settings, which had the effect of freezing the "suggested movies" list in amber at that moment.
Its job is to show whatever external input we use -- AppleTV most of the time, but there's also a cable box/DVR, a Blu-Ray player, and an Xbox. The whole setup runs through an AV receiver, and the sound comes out of the surround system, so we really only need a dumb panel anyway.