New Google TV with new google account + VPN or without Internet access

Reading again, the concern is mostly about HDR and I do understand that one. But there are solutions with small mini PCs indeed

Best video player for HDR playback on desktop Linux? Off Topic

I am not sure if there are a lot of FOSS players that are better quality than MPV. Infuse works well and is cool[1] but it’s a product and it’s probably just a few plugins/codecs away from being perfect. Haven’t gotten through all the steps myself, so no: not sure about how it works but here are the things I narrowed down in general. You need 3 things to have a proper working HDR experience: your source movie needs to be “HDR-enabled” (or be trans/encoded into it before the delivery) hav…

Don’t give up and let your TV spy on you buddy!

The main con for option 2 is that manual updates reset the TV to factory

Damn, what a drawback RIP for that one.

Great setup on everything else otherwise! I’ll personally would route everything through your VPN if it was me and indeed offline the whole Google TV part. And deal with the drawbacks of it.