Widevine

So if you care about the ability to watch Amazon Prime and Netflix and all those sorts of things, it looks for that little DRM unique code thing, whatever it's called, and if it's not there, you, uh, you can't...

Is it Widevine? Maybe that's what it is.

You can't use Widevine if it doesn't have this Widevine key.

And so you, the, the, the critical advice here is you need to do this swap before the device dies.

Once the drive dies, you're out of luck.

I had Nvidia Shields in front of all my TVs.

I got bit by this the first time, and the good news is, if you are like Steve and I, and you primarily use open source software like Kodi and that sort of stuff, Nvidia will send you a factory image that you can recover back onto the device.

So it's not completely bricked, but you lose that little, I think it's a Widevine key, and then you, there's no getting that back.

One of the things that I have found difficult on the ARM platform is getting anything that requires...

There is a module called Widevine on Linux.

It's pretty much required for streaming for things like Netflix and stuff like that.

YouTube doesn't require it, but Linux and other streaming services will require it.