The obsolete Google gadget that's still better than your smart TV

It's a template that's been built on by Android and Google TV, and that modern proprietary smart TV OSes still fall short of.
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Building a DIY TV box made me realize how awful Google TV really is

Like many affordable smart TVs, mine runs on a frankly garbage processor that makes trawling through my TV’s updated Google TV interface a real chore. Quad‑core Cortex‑A55 CPUs are pretty standard but ...