Not who you asked but I hook up mine to a PC meant for streaming, there’s no need for it to be smart with either browser or applications that stream the content. Unless I’m missing something.
It’s not a need as much as a preference to not want every device need a connection if you have other means to handle the tasks. Also less bandwidth used since they don’t send back random data to headquarters, not that I imagine it’s a lot.
Hadn’t heard of that before but think I’ve seen a random comic or two. Did a Google search and eventually had to look it up to see if it was very dry satire, evidently it’s not. Huh…