Comment by vitorgrs
12 hours ago
I mean... I bought a Samsung TV in 2020, and it already supported AV1 HW decoding.
2020 feels close, but that's 5 years.
12 hours ago
I mean... I bought a Samsung TV in 2020, and it already supported AV1 HW decoding.
2020 feels close, but that's 5 years.
Is that supposed to be long-lived for a TV?
I'm running an LG initially released in 2013 and the only thing I'm not happy with is that about a year ago Netflix ended their app for that hardware generation (likely for phasing out whatever codec it used). Now I'm running that unit behind an Amazon fire stick and the user experience is so much worse.
(that LG was a "smart" TV from before they started enshittifying, such a delight - had to use and set up a recent LG once on a family visit and it was even worse than the fire stick, omg, so much worse!)
> Is that supposed to be long-lived for a TV?
I don't see anything in that comment implying such a thing. It's just about the uptake of decoders.
If, by chance, you're not running the latest version RootMyTV [0] may be an option. Or downgrade might still be an option [1].
[0] https://github.com/RootMyTV/RootMyTV.github.io [1] https://github.com/throwaway96/downgr8
Fire Stick is the most enshittified device (which is why it was so cheap). AppleTV is fantastic if you're willing to spend $100. You don't need the latest gen; previous gen are just as good.
Two years ago I bought a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 phone (TSMC 4nm, with 12 GB LPDDR RAM, 256 GB NAND flash, and a 200 megapixel camera). It still feels pretty modern but it has no AV1 support.