From: vir.campestris@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 14/07/2025 00:58, Paul wrote:   
   > The catch is, you have to rent a fiber optic internet service   
   > to start with, the STB is provided as a rental, to convert IPTV   
   > packets into an HDMI signal. It's not exactly stretching anyones   
   > mental muscles to run Ubuntu on a computer, given the STB is   
   > a computer. Look at a video of a take-apart of the STB and   
   > you can see it's just a computer (about as technically complicated   
   > as an RPi).   
      
      
   The big smart TV manufacturers I know about are Roku (runs Linux under   
   the hood) Android (a Linux fork) and Apple. I'm told Apple's OS is based   
   on Unix...   
      
   Andy   
      
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