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Just to be clear, I upvoted this, but I thinking TVs being anything but a dumb display is a really bad idea. It wastes developer time trying to stuff support for proprietary technologies and reinvents the wheel.

Just... just be a display and let me connect whatever proper devices to it, instead of trying to put a crappy and slow YouTube app that gets obsoleted within a year.



I would agree - but does that mean I need to buy a NetFlix box, a cable TV box, an Amazon box, a YouTube box, a Vimeo box etc.?

Or, do I run one box that magically supports them all? Apart from DailyMotion who've decided they want me to buy their special adapter....


> Or, do I run one box that magically supports them all?

A computer? That's what I would use.


Where do I find a computer which runs all these services, has a nice easy to use front end, and doesn't cost a fortune?




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