I thought I finally had it figured out. If the smart TV is bad, and Android TV streaming boxes and sticks are bloated, then I’d just make my own streaming box. That’s what I did. I installed Android ...

While traditional television is still oftentimes being eschewed in favor of streaming these days, that doesn't mean it's gone completely. Digital TV service is still in common use, connecting to TVs ...

Like many affordable smart TVs, mine runs on a frankly garbage processor that makes trawling through my TV’s updated Google TV interface a real chore. Quad‑core Cortex‑A55 CPUs are pretty standard but ...