• party_planet@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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

    • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.id
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      6 months ago

      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.