My father considers buying an Android TV box. Initially, I thought that’s a bad choice as a mini pc has much greater capabilities and control.

However, he does have a point that Android TV boxes are cheaper (~60) and work with tv cable which most mini PCs don’t have a connector for.

What are your thoughts on this?

  • Andrzej3K [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    6·
    11 hours ago

    So the main problem with a Linux TV box these days is that you can’t get a decent experience with legit streaming services thanks to hardware DRM. So the best thing to do really is to have a Linux server (any mini PC will do), and to stream from that to the Android TV box via Jellyfin. I would recommend using Proxmox, as you can have Jellyfin, your downloaders, a nextcloud instance if you like, all in their own containers with a nice web UI to manage them.

    • VoxAliorum@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I don’t really understand. I use Linux and have no problem with Netflix. Not sure how it goes with other streaming services.

      • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
        1·
        3 hours ago

        afaik you can’t get high resolution or something. i think it can be partially mitigated by running google chrome instead of firefox or (open source) chromium but i never attempted these.