As we can see in this case, there's apparently lots of pressure from service providers not to be just a dumb, neutral piece of hardware. And, in my opinion, the control that streaming services have over hardware can be traced back to DRM anti-circumvention laws. The fact that it's illegal to build hardware that controverts dumb restrictions mandated by the streaming services by breaking their DRM means that hardware manufacturers. will risk being cut off by streaming services.