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My TV is not a smart TV but has hdmi inputs. Are there any non American alternatives to the Amazon fire stick?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

My workplace is giving old mini PCs to the employees. I put a linux distro on that and use it as a media pc. You can get them on ebay or similar for ~30 €, so it's basically the same price as a TVStick. I reccommend getting a bluetooth keyboard as well.

If you want another stick then there's also Roku.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'll have a look at Roku thank you because it needs to be user friendly for the family.

[–] alphapuggle 3 points 5 days ago

Roku is headquartered in California. If we're prioritizing user friendliness over location (nothing wrong with this!) I'd go with a Google TV box or something like the Google streamer. Since it's Android based you can (with a little bit of a workaround) change the launcher and ditch the ads. With Roku you're stuck with whatever they give you; and they just "accidentally" tested ads on startup before you even see the home screen.

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