[mythtv-users] Smart TV hacks

[Andrew]

"Dumb TV's" are called monitors.  Yes, you can still find them, but they
will cost more than a consumer TV because they are for commercial use.

I have a 50+ inch Samsung plasma that I love, but I only use a single
HDMI port to make it effectively a monitor for my MythTV front end.

A long time ago, I had high hopes of reflashing "smart TVs" with new
firmware to embed a MythTV front end directly into the display. Alas,
that has not come about because of this race to make every TV
proprietary, tie you into the manufacturer's ecosystem, and planned
obsolescence.  So long as there is no hardware or software standard, the
HDMI port is all we have.  I haven't built a RPi frontend yet, but that
is the direction I see for the immediate future, taped to the back of
the monitor and run off of POE.  In the long run, as manufacturers find
it too difficult to manage software development implementing multiple
media players over the short product lifecycles, they will offload
software development to Linux and/or Android frameworks, and there we
may have an opportunity to add MythTV front ends as a prebuilt binary
apps.  Imagine having to root your TV.

Andrew


On 04/28/2017 09:15 PM, Stephen Villano wrote:
> Odd, the Us is *lousy* with low end dumb TV's. We're also wealthy with
> SmartTV's. There's an obvious ploy by marketing ti ignore their lack
> of security.
> But, my last three purchases were "dumb" TV's.
>
> On 4/29/17, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
>> On 29/04/17 10:33, Will Dormann wrote:
>>> On 4/26/17 1:21 PM, Craig Van Tassle wrote:
>>>> Even better idea. Don't buy a Supersized Tablet, I mean "Smart TV". I
>>>> have a "Stupid TV" that I plug in to my Myth Frontend.
>>>
>>> Not that I've even looked for quite a few years, but is it even possible
>>> to get a stupid TV these days?
>> I asked just this question earlier this week as a local shop and the answer
>> was "no", unless I want one of the old, small (32" anyone?) TVs.
>>
>> Eyal
>>
>>> -WD
>> --
>> Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)
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