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by navigate8310 37 days ago
It is futile to expect the TV to be smart and support all sorts of apps and hardware only to be abandoned by the manufacturer years down the line. The only correct way to buy a TV imho is to hunt for a dumb but excellent display properties and get a streaming device such as Google TV Streamer, Apple TV or DIY x86 HTPC.
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>DIY x86 HTPC

ARM slander was not warranted

Are there DIY Arm boards that make a good HTPC? Do they have hardware video decoding?
Your best bet is going to be Raspberry Pi devices:

https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/18431

You can try Googling around for bespoke products but they will almost exclusively come from China and they will be very overpriced due to the soldered RAM.