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suggestions for "smart tv" OS for a pc. (4k) ?

Tailored Butcher
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i have a small lenovo computer im looking into turning into a pc for the TV

ive tried Android tv, but for some reason it dosent wanna run 4k

i have a apple tv 4k, but there is a weird problem where my phillips shift the picture a bit to the left, and creats a weird green bezel on the right, and phillps claims that it isnt the tv, and i have tried with a friends apple 4k tv, and same result.

so that is what why im looking for suggestions for a good tv OS on a pc.

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Maybe Kodi? I don't know if there is any smart tv like OS for a PC.

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for some weird ass reson, they dont have a os for it they want you to install it on top of window / linux. :/

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11 minutes ago, Tailored Butcher said:

for some weird ass reson, they dont have a os for it they want you to install it on top of window / linux. :/

You could just install it on top of Ubuntu (or some other distro) and choose Kodi in the login menu.

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Old PC: Intel Xeon X5670 6c/12t @ 4.40GHz, Asus P6X58D-E, 24GB DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GTX 1080 Strix, 500GB, 250GB & 120GB SSD, 2x 4TB & 2x 2TB HDD, Fractal Define R5

PC 2: Intel Xeon E5-2690 8c/16t @ 3.3-3.8GHz, ThinkStation S30 (C602/X79), 64GB (4x 16GB) DDR3 1600MHz, Asus GeForce GTX 960 Turbo OC, 1TB Crucial MX500

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My first PC: Intel Celeron 333MHz, Diamond Micronics C400, 384mb RAM, Diamond Viper V550 (NVIDIA Riva TNT), 6gb and 8gb HDD

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If you want to stream in 4k you are pretty much stuck with Windows thanks to the DRM a lot of the streaming services use. For Netflix for example you need to have a PlayReady 3.0 compatible PC, that means you either need to have a Intel Core processor with integrated graphics, gen 7 (Kaby Lake) or newer or a AMD Ryzen CPU with integrated graphics or a Nvidia 10-series GPU or newer or a Polaris or Vega based AMD GPU.

Finally you need to use the Microsoft Edge-browser to access the service to get it all to work.

 

If you are happy with 1080p you could use something like PiTV, its made for the Raspberry Pi but it should be possible to use on a regular computer with some tinkering.

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18 minutes ago, tzaitam said:

If you want to stream in 4k you are pretty much stuck with Windows thanks to the DRM a lot of the streaming services use. For Netflix for example you need to have a PlayReady 3.0 compatible PC, that means you either need to have a Intel Core processor with integrated graphics, gen 7 (Kaby Lake) or newer or a AMD Ryzen CPU with integrated graphics or a Nvidia 10-series GPU or newer or a Polaris or Vega based AMD GPU.

Finally you need to use the Microsoft Edge-browser to access the service to get it all to work.

 

If you are happy with 1080p you could use something like PiTV, its made for the Raspberry Pi but it should be possible to use on a regular computer with some tinkering.

Thanks for the explaining and detailed answere, i am running plex instead, and as far as i know, then they are more versitile with 4k and what you use :)

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