Sony BRAVIA V5500 series
- System
- XMB (Xross Media Bar)
- Year
- 2009
- Calls itself
- BRAVIA V5500
- Codes this entry covers
- KDL-32V5500 · KDL-40V5500 · KDL-46V5500
There is nothing to remove here
This television runs XMB (Xross Media Bar), a closed system from the manufacturer. It has no package manager and no debugging interface, so nothing we document will work on it. It is not that we have not looked: there is no door.
What you can do with a set like this:
- Filter the advertising and the telemetry at the router, which works on any television because it does not depend on its software.
- Leave it as a screen and put the clever parts in an external device over HDMI. The panel is still good; the software is what aged.
- Go through its own privacy and advertising options, which are usually buried but do exist.