[u-u] IP/TV project

[Vance Shipley]

There is, and there isn't, a single platform environment for smart TV
applications. Android TV is leader however Samsung has Tizen and LG has
webOS.

I have a big beautiful Samsung hanging on my wall and for some reason felt
compelled to develop for it. I now have a CI/CD pipeline which delivers
applications onto my TV. What I learned however, is that the Tizen
environment is stale. The toolchain is based on Ubuntu 18 (bionic) which
was released in 2018 and EOS since 2023. The community is quiet and the
roadmap hasn't been updated in years. It was headed in the direction of
WebAssembly though, which was interesting.

Smart TV vendors are turning into Big Brother, they are subsidizing the
cost of the TVs by selling information they are collecting about you. They
are also taking control over the interface and forcing you to consume their
content. It's big business and they aren't too interested in third party
applications getting involved. They are now competing directly with Netflix
et. al..

If I were trying to build a streaming business I wouldn't target smart TVs,
but rather devices with HDMI which can use any screen. Unfortunately that
hardware ecosystem is also not open, which complicates that path, however
it's still a betterfield.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM Jim Mercer <jim at reptiles.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a contact looking to scale up a PoC of providing in-room video
> streaming to a more robust setup.
>
> They want to take IP/TV feeds from one or more ISPs, through a gateway of
> sorts, and allow in-room smart-TVs to stream different channels.
>
> Could lead to other interesting projects.
>
> Drop me your contact if you are interested.
>
> --jim
>

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     -Vance
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