Hey Folks,

I got a new tv through some family and wondering whether the raspberry pi 5 is suitable for connecting to it for general streaming and video.

I’ve seen a lot of mixed things on this but the other discussions on this topic seem to focus on quite technical stuff about media home servers and media codecs and so I’m not sure whether these are complicating the matter more. For a basic starting point, is it feasible to just get a pi 5 8gb to watch youtube, other streaming and file playback? The tv is capable of 4k but I’m not hugely bothered if I’d need to lower the resolution.

Because I’m currently using a zombie 2009 imac with mint on it as a tv so the bar is extremely low for quality and stuttering, but it tries its best and having a desktop environment where i can get ublock and control with a ps4 controller has been far more my thing than having to deal with smart tv constrictions.

I don’t mind a bit of a project to play around with, but if it’d be more hassle than its worth with where the Pi is at do let me know.