LG has both so it keeps your options open. Some tvs don’t have either or both and you need a seperate box to act as your client.

Some people prefer not to connect their smart tv and instead connect a box they have more control over. I find the LG app to be perfectly good for me and prefer to keep it simple and just block other network access.

I have an LG. They have a jellyfin app. Just block the access to other stuff and it’s fine, if not actually good.

I don’t use or need a seperste streaming box. I don’t get data mining or ads.

If the demand increases enough, more factories will be built. Right?

Except most people think it’s a bubble, so won’t risk building and the cost to build factories that technical is so large that most big companies outsource it, never mind new entrants.

I suspect instead well move more towards a data on demand kind of thing. We don’t need the same thing stored in millions of copies worldwide. Cheaper connectivity and containerization should help, I’d think.

It will start with rarely used large files like isos, which are already pretty efficiently distributed but then move to more and more, like cdns do for web already.

I’m just hypothesizing…I’ve nothing to base it on, but it seems redundant to have so much duplication.