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I use Smartube for obvious reasons on Android TV / Google TV. It also works on some tablets and some Windows rendering of Android (Android app box, Google Play Games etc). It has a following there is also an alternative which I haven't tried. The developers lives in a war zone so fixes can be slow but not often. People say, leave off him, he's in a war zone when they start to moan. Ukraine. Integrates the day job with the hobby.
Advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS - yuliskov/SmartTube
github.com
Free premium app for Android boxes and tvs
smarttubeapp.github.io
Pass on how it works in a walled internet garden country.
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Back on subject will be interesting to see whether the European / China car tariffs get dropped so the Vag products made in China from their factories and deals they have done for production in China to supply world markets or whether Chinese companies they have co worked with in China buy out their spare factory space in Europe. It was the Stellantis group that did the dirty of getting the EU to put an EV tariff on Chinese manufactured cars after their persuasion with the VAG group on a joint EV production in Europe failed. That left the Cupra Tavascan attracting the 10% tariff, small beer to Trumps tariffs now. That became all old history in a year as Trump slapped / proposed tariffs across the board. The Chinese 10% with Europe on EVs could be transient.
The Tavascan badged as a VW in China costs much less than in world markets it's shipped to. Probably the price point of EVs will fall dramatically as manufacturers get their development costs back and the price point stabilises. This is why you see across the world pre registered EVs being sold at far lower than the recommended price. It's not that people don't want EVs, they don't want them at the price point they are currently sold at. Once production volumes balance out against cost. The hint is the badged VW Tavascan in China.
