Maybe look into the AVCHD format? It’s a set specific rules for video files and a folder structure that allows a burned disc to be read by a conventional BluRay player.

LG ☹️

I have an LG 42" 4K OLED, but I miss my 42" 720p Panasonic plasma for it’s simplicity. If it didn’t decide to die, I’d have kept it. The colours on OLED are impressive on Dolby Vision content from my Google Streamer, I’ll admit, but yea, I’m basically using my TV to display content from external hardware, the tuner, WiFi, Bluetooth etc will all be dormant it’s entire life.

I get where your coming from, and I have done that, but I get constant popup reminders that “You are not connected to the internet, would you like to set this up now to access exciting apps and features?” And on top of that, I’ve had to switch to a universal remote, because the one that comes with the TV activates a cursor on screen when it senses movement which is a “feature” you can’t switch off. I just want a remote with on/off, input, and volume control 😭

You know what would sell like hot cakes? A dumb TV with Dolby Vision support. I went down the rabbit hole of finding a large HDR monitor and adapters to trick end devices to output player-led Dolby Vision to a HDR monitors, because I don’t need my TV to have a complete OS with streaming services and adverts integrated.

In the end I couldn’t find anything that didn’t have drawbacks. It’s something that could easily exist but there are no manufacturers bold enough to implement it.

Streaming tech moves so fast, I want to add it to my TV through hardware like a fire stick, not to become dependent on the TV manufacturer putting out updates until it’s ‘Out-of-support’.

I went with a TV and disabled as much of the junk as I could with a service remote and just never connected it to the internet, but jumping through these hoops seems so silly.

Maybe a Starbook from Starlabs? https://starlabs.systems/pages/starbook

Or a V54 from NovaCustom?: https://novacustom.com/product/v54-series/

Or a Jupiter Pro from Juno Computers?: https://junocomputers.com/product/jupiter-14-pro-v3/

Or InfinityBook Pro 14 from Tuxedo?: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-14-Gen9-INTEL.tuxedo

None of them are ticking every box but worth a look.

It’s contacts syncing that I’m stuck on. Hoping to do something with a box running OMV but I’ve never come across anything so simple as Google Contacts 😔

I think from an apps perspective, it looks less “strange” so anything out of the ordinary and a lot of apps just flag as “must be rooted”. Graphene has a lot of changes for security reasons that make it look “out of the ordinary”. It’s sad because if the apps were designed to understand the changes implemented in Graphene, they’d understand it’s probably even more secure than a regular Android ROM.