OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware

Re:OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TV... by laumars on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:02AM (#29338914)

I wonder how many people in that majority category you’ve described are likely to want to install custom firmware though.

I’m a “hacker” with multiple LG TVs around the house (in fact I exclusively buy LG TVs) and I have no interest in putting custom firmware on those TV sets. So I can’t imagine there’s many inside the Venn bubble that are both laymen enough to want Netflix, technical enough to know about custom firmware but also motivated enough to want to install it.

So the number of people who want dumb firmware might not be disproportionately less than those who want custom smart firmware.

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Re:OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TV... by franga2000 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:54AM (#29339183)

> laymen enough to want Netflix

Not wanting to commit digital piracy makes you a "layman"? What other options are there? I'm assuming you're using "Netflix" as a placeholder for all similar streaming services, but even if not, there are still many shows only available there that you simply can't legally watch without it.

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Re:OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TV... by vinay427 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @03:08AM (#29339273)

I think, given the context of the thread, they mean that a layman would be more likely to want a TV with Netflix built-in as opposed to an external device that typically performs better and is more flexible.

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Re:OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TV... by laumars on Thursday November 25, 2021 @07:17AM (#29340695)

Exactly this. :)

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