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Major broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 will this morning come together to launch their new stream service called Freely, which has b
I guess the problem would be that a fire stick/Google TV/other TV dongle just doesn’t have the compute and or storage to do this stuff. Maybe apple TV would be ready to be fair. Certainly no Samsung/LG inbuilt stuff will manage it.
Maybe this and other things like it in other countries will spur on a new category of dongle devices that come with like 500GB or more storage that will enable people to keep their current TVs.
Maybe they could offer a version of the software that comes without the ability to pause live TV, I think that’s what would be required to make it work with existing hardware
I have two Rasp Pi Zero’s stuck behind my TV that cost me £10+£10 DVB HAT’s x 2 (before the COVID scalpers took effect) as a poor mans Homerun server that have plenty of storage - be that a new USB drive stuck in them or even using my NAS with NFS for storage.
Device cost/viability isn’t a thing here.
It’s getting people signing up to a (e: tracking) service that’ll be plastered with adverts every 15 mins? I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole.
I guess the problem would be that a fire stick/Google TV/other TV dongle just doesn’t have the compute and or storage to do this stuff. Maybe apple TV would be ready to be fair. Certainly no Samsung/LG inbuilt stuff will manage it.
Maybe this and other things like it in other countries will spur on a new category of dongle devices that come with like 500GB or more storage that will enable people to keep their current TVs.
Maybe they could offer a version of the software that comes without the ability to pause live TV, I think that’s what would be required to make it work with existing hardware
I have two Rasp Pi Zero’s stuck behind my TV that cost me £10+£10 DVB HAT’s x 2 (before the COVID scalpers took effect) as a poor mans Homerun server that have plenty of storage - be that a new USB drive stuck in them or even using my NAS with NFS for storage.
Device cost/viability isn’t a thing here.
It’s getting people signing up to a (e: tracking) service that’ll be plastered with adverts every 15 mins? I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole.