What is Plasma Bigscreen?
Plasma Bigscreen is an open source smart TV platform built on the KDE Plasma desktop environment. It is designed to provide a user-friendly interface optimized for large screens, living room use, and interaction via remote controls.
Some key features of Plasma Bigscreen include:
- A visually appealing graphical interface using large text and icons ideal for viewing on HDTVs.
- Custom layouts and widgets for browsing media libraries, watching video, listening to music, web browsing, and more.
- Support for streaming media from local network sources as well as online services.
- An app dashboard for launching apps fullscreen on your TV.
- Built on Qt/QML and other open source technologies allowing third-party app development.
Plasma Bigscreen aims to deliver a free, customizable, and user-friendly smart TV experience. Its open source nature allows community contributions to expand features and device support over time. With the flexibility of KDE Plasma, Bigscreen can provide an alternative to closed, proprietary smart TV platforms.
Stremio, Kodi, Jellyfin, Android TV, Emby, Google TV, OSMC, Fire OS, Tizen OS, webOS Open Source Edition, tvOS are some alternatives to Plasma Bigscreen.