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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
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Subject: Re: OT: YiouTube sunscribed sites
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Theo wrote:

> nospam@example.net wrote:
>
>> get yourself a Radxa Zero and run Kodi on it.
>> That way you can turn off all the smarts on the TV, and just view the
>> stuff you want to view through the Radxa single board computer.
> 
> ...until you want to watch Netflix, iPlayer, ITVX, Disney+ or whatever.  Then
> you'll find there's either no streaming app or the streaming app won't run
> because you aren't running their DRM on 'certified' hardware.
Don't know if they've b0rked it in new and innovative ways, but I did 
have Kodi (or maybe it was still XBMC at the time) running with the 
widevine plugin extracted from the Chrome installer, running on a Pi3 
.... obviously it did require a Netflix account, which I stopped paying 
for after a year.