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by tsujamin 1164 days ago
What it doesn’t solve is the friction and bloatware of the tvos. My Sony tv’s Android interface has unbearable input lag using its menus, so I inevitably leave it set to my appletv hdmi input.

Could the TV do everything the appletv could? Yep just worse and I can’t get rid of it
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warning26 1164 days ago
That applies regardless of whether or not the tv is “smart” - my current “smart” Roku TV runs great, and I had an old “dumb” Samsung that took forever to do anything.

Well-written software is what helps here, not smartness or lack thereof.

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hot_gril 1163 days ago
No, dumbness helps. You want to solve the input delay, you can use an external HDMI switch or get a dumb TV.
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