Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
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Sure, you do you. I've still been using the (modified) YouTube app, Mediathek, and media player which can access the recordings on my NAS. But this year they broke Netflix for very old TVs, they pulled the compatible version of Mediathek from the LG store... I'm already working on a Kodi box as a replacement for the network services. Guess as soon as it works (and gets approved by my partner), or they kill my YouTube app, I'll pull the plug as well.
Kind of a shame. It's a great device. Runs Linux... I was able to "root" the TV and install a YouTube app without any advertisements in it...
Consider using LibreELEC which is a Linux distro with Kodi to run as as a Media Player, and which has versions to install on all manner of devices, including ARM SBCs like the Pi.
(Mind you, if you want to do more with that box than simply run it as a medial player - for example to use it as your home NAS in parallel - I'm not sure if this is appropriate since it's not a fully-featured distro, rather it's just enough to run Kodi).
Also you can get a remote like this that just sends down button presses on the remote as key presses of Kodi shortcuts, so with it you have pretty much the same experience as with a dedicated media player box only this device is entirelly under your control.