For the past 10 years or so I’ve had a PC hooked up to a dumb TV to stream my TV. Now I’m officially old and have kids in elementary school. The PC is finally unbearably slow but now I have no idea what to replace it with, or frankly even what my options are. Smart TV? Casting Stick? new PC? some newfangled option i don’t even know what to google?
Reformat the PC, install LINUX. ITS fast again. Perhaps get a bigger screen with a faster refresh rate of 140 to 200hz and more memory.
The benefit of having your own box means you control what you store and keep all these others systems tend to downgrade what you control. This way you can still get a bigger TV and use your PC with a remote control that works for both.