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The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm probably a minority in this (although probably not so much here on Lemmy), but if anything, I'd want my TV to be less smart, and less personalised. I don't want Google to know what my favourite TV shows and movies are. I don't want "suggestions" on which streaming platforms I could also install (often before the content I would actually want to see). And I most definitely don't want my TV to be monitoring the rest of my "smart" home.

For the people who are part of this articles titular "we", I seriously wonder: why would you have been waiting for this?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I think you're definitely in the majority on lemmy with this take but i agree.

I have a "smart tv" that has never even seen WiFi because i prefer having control over my hardware. My media pc is all i need. I even got a little remote for an air mouse and keyboard combo that works just fine for me.