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submitted 3 days ago by VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

My father considers buying an Android TV box. Initially, I thought that's a bad choice as a mini pc has much greater capabilities and control.

However, he does have a point that Android TV boxes are cheaper (~60) and work with tv cable which most mini PCs don't have a connector for.

What are your thoughts on this?

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[-] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

The whole TV streaming space is just super depressing. Even though I try to self host as much as I can, nothing I've found comes close to the experience of Android TV even with the ads (though you can replace the launcher to fix that problem).

this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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