XPost: uk.tech.digital-tv, uk.d-i-y   
   From: usenet@andyburns.uk   
      
   Theo wrote:   
      
   > nospam@example.net wrote:   
   >   
   >> get yourself a Radxa Zero and run Kodi on it.   
   >> That way you can turn off all the smarts on the TV, and just view the   
   >> stuff you want to view through the Radxa single board computer.   
   >   
   > ...until you want to watch Netflix, iPlayer, ITVX, Disney+ or whatever.  Then   
   > you'll find there's either no streaming app or the streaming app won't run   
   > because you aren't running their DRM on 'certified' hardware.   
   Don't know if they've b0rked it in new and innovative ways, but I did   
   have Kodi (or maybe it was still XBMC at the time) running with the   
   widevine plugin extracted from the Chrome installer, running on a Pi3   
   ... obviously it did require a Netflix account, which I stopped paying   
   for after a year.   
      
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