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Can my TV not have a whole OS?

I’m just going to use the hdmi ports.




Maybe it's time people started hacking the TVs and getting custom OSes running on them.

Though I suspect that the processors inside TVs don't have publicly available datasheets, and the actual boards get changed pretty often, so it will be a lot of work for little payoff.

One thing to look at though is to see if your TV has a signage or commercial mode, and switch to using that instead.


Would be nice to have a "minimal OS" that just does what u want. Select a hdmi port, change volume, yada ya.




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