Hey guys, so I moved recently and started tipping my toes in self-hosting, currently managed to set up Pihole and Jellyfin.

I’m thinking of buying a TV to start enjoying all these cool services over my living room. The thing is, I’m pretty much an absolute beginner, and I’m not sure if there is something I should be aware of when buying a TV.

Since it is a fairly big spend, I would really hate to be locked out of it because of some greedy corporate garbage or something, especially since I would use it only for self-hosting, and I am aware TVs are particularly messy when it comes to this (never have bought one in my life). Could you guys help this lost kid?

  • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.meEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    So you’d be saying it’s not at all about getting an Android stick, but about getting a very specific one.

    Sideloading is not just a shield feature, my tv apparently supports it as well (according to some googling), not that I mind my ad-free launcher …

    4k also works on the TV. Overall the benefits you listed seem to be minor (for me, I don’t need anything but jellyfin and amazon). Reinstalling jellyfin on a new TV also wouldn’t be much of a bother.

    • thejevans@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      yeah, any android tv device will have access to some subset of the features of the nvidia shield, but I don’t know of any others that can handle 4k60 with hdr and dolby vision, and none have the same codec support (so you’ll never need to transcode on jellyfin). not to mention the fact that the nvidia shield will be way snappier than any other device out there, which I know I appreciate.

      If you have an android tv right now, then the benefits come from getting a much more performant external android tv box. If you have a non-android smart tv, then there are many more benefits.