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Old 24th April 2020, 00:01   #6  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit View Post
Makes sense. Smart TVs in general (especially older ones) are _ATROCIOUS_ platforms to develop for, especially when you have to live in the sandbox environment they give app developers. Netflix always gets special permission to run their own binary. Nobody else gets that level of integration, so it limits what's possible.
I wouldn't say nobody else. I'd expect it is available to the big five premium content services. They build players in a lot of different ways targeting different levels of abstraction.
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