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After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads (arstechnica.com)
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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I have a NanoPC-T4 that I use as a server, the thing would in principle make a good set top box -- it's what Rockchip designed the RK3399 for, after all, it can decode 4k h.264 and h.265, and it's from 2016 (I got it for its pcie lanes, a rarity with arm boards).

None of those SmartTVs run expensive hardware, any reasonably fresh potato can do what they do.