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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by Nectar0516 on Saturday March 29, 2025 @11:28PM (#43521037)
The bigger problem with running on a PC is UI. No longer will it work well with a simple remote that only needs 10 buttons.
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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by qwerpy on Saturday March 29, 2025 @11:35PM (#43521080)
It's definitely less ergonomic but I successfully trained my extremely non-technical wife to use a VNC client on her phone to control the media center PC so she can watch streaming/youtube with an adblocking browser.

If you go to the trouble of setting up a media server and Kodi/Plex on the TV, and install a barebones launcher that avoids all the ads on the official launcher, the remote still works well. I don't know whether to blame Sony or Google but every system update brought bigger and bigger ads to the point that I took an afternoon off to sideload an extremely plain ad-free launcher.

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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by dharmab on Sunday March 30, 2025 @12:01AM (#43521224)
I had a media center PC that was usable with a remote control in 2008.
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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by barotalomey on Sunday March 30, 2025 @02:47AM (#43521932)
Choke full of XVID cams, I bet
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