I have an old TV that I was given because it had a black band down the screen. I fixed it by wiggling some cables, and it became my main TV. I could afford to replace it, but I don't see why I need to. One peculiar thing is that it has DVI rather than HDMI. I have a YouView digi box which I use to stream. I can't use my Amazon Fire stick with the TV because this would require a device to extract the sound from the HDMI and these are silly expensive. I can't watch BluRay from an Xbox because of DRM, and not being hdmi (There is a hack, but still). I subscribed to Netflix and Prime, but Prime didn't work properly on my box. I wanted to watch GOT, and subscribed to another service that had an app on my box, but the app only showed a selection of that providers content and not GOT. The same provider won't play on Linux at all (no DRM app), and the only Windows machine I had wouldn't play the sound loud enough. So south a myriad of devices I couldn't watch the show I subscribed to see. Kodi had it, and works on Linux....
So I could send my TV to landfill, buy a new one, get multiple digi boxes and subscribe to everything...or use Kodi. I can't be bothered, I cancelled my subs except Netflix. I only keep that for the kids.
So I could send my TV to landfill, buy a new one, get multiple digi boxes and subscribe to everything...or use Kodi. I can't be bothered, I cancelled my subs except Netflix. I only keep that for the kids.