$429 CAD is crazy for sure but there's a running joke in my group chats of me sending a link to an Apple TV every time someone posts about their Kodi box breaking. It's not set and forget like an Apple TV at all...

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protimewaster 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My Apple TVs have not been set and forget. Apple's aggressive storage saving makes it so that it resets storage for, and I get logged out of, apps that I don't use frequently. It'll also randomly need a reboot to solve the problem of some videos not playing correctly.

It's definitely not the most troublesome player I've dealt with, but rebooting and logging back into apps randomly can be frustrating.

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chocochunks 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the only problems I've had on mine were network related and I would have had the same problems with an ATV since it can't magically fix DNS or my NAS being off.

If you want a privacy focused solution it's probably the most private. Yeah, admittedly harder to use but I'm not recommending it to my parents.

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loloquwowndueo 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

At 429 you can get a whole new tv.

	▲	piva00 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have an Apple TV exactly to not deal with any Smart TV feature and to avoid connecting a TV to the internet, mine is the first gen 4K from 2017 and is still chugging along fine. I don't plan on upgrading it to this new version yet so I'll probably get 10+ years of use out of it, great value overall.
	▲	mypalmike 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Or 8 pairs of jeans on sale.
	▲	Hamuko 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Although not a particularly good one. Especially if you want to stream (which I presume Apple TV buyers would) and care about privacy.