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I was a bit surprised the service launched with no web or app support at all, even if with limited functionality.
Freely seems to be aiming for quick adoption from what I’ve read, the aim is to have it replace broadcast Freeview entirely. Most people don’t buy new TVs very often, but many would likely start/try using Freely if they could access it on devices they already have.
I guess the problem would be that a fire stick/Google TV/other TV dongle just doesn't have the compute and or storage to do this stuff. Maybe apple TV would be ready to be fair. Certainly no Samsung/LG inbuilt stuff will manage it.
Maybe this and other things like it in other countries will spur on a new category of dongle devices that come with like 500GB or more storage that will enable people to keep their current TVs.
Maybe they could offer a version of the software that comes without the ability to pause live TV, I think that's what would be required to make it work with existing hardware
I have two Rasp Pi Zero's stuck behind my TV that cost me £10+£10 DVB HAT's x 2 (before the COVID scalpers took effect) as a poor mans Homerun server that have plenty of storage - be that a new USB drive stuck in them or even using my NAS with NFS for storage.
Device cost/viability isn't a thing here.
It's getting people signing up to a (e: tracking) service that'll be plastered with adverts every 15 mins? I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.