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Comment by adrian_b

7 days ago

I have stopped using TV sets more than a decade ago.

Instead of a TV set, I use a very big monitor, which is connected to a mini-PC (an old Intel NUC with Linux), which also has a TV tuner and an infrared remote control receiver. Besides just showing a TV channel, a mini-PC can also record it and it can play any other kind of movie or music files, or it can stream some video from the Internet.

Can you watch youtoube in that setup? If that's Linux, what desktop environment do you use? How does infrared remote control works, like mouse - point and click? Of you can select applications with Up, Down, Left, Right buttons on the remote, like on usual TVs?