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		capableweb on Sept 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plasma Bigscreen Usually software designed explicitly for the hardware where it runs, while OS software is designed to run on general hardware. If there is hardware specific fixes, they might be skipped as it'll make compatibility worse while software designed for exact hardware doesn't make tradeoffs like that at all.

water8 on Sept 16, 2022 [–]

I don’t think the actual hardware components inside a TV are all that different from an SOC because they’re essentially doing the same thing.

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