I really struggle to find a TV box to replace my 3 Apple TVs.
I found a device from Nokia (Finland), but it doesn’t seem to be in stock in Swedish online stores.
There seems to be no home electronics companies owned in Europe. Manufacturing you can forget about without even searching.
Sorry, if I completely misunderstood your question (disclaimer: I don’t know much about the Apple TV or about TV in general, as we don’t watch it) but here (France) with our Fiber Internet access we also got served an extra tiny box that supposedly gives us access to hundreds of tv channels… provided we connect it to a screen of some sort. It has one HDMI plug and that’s about it.
My point is this: I obviously have no idea what extra features an Apple TV is offering but maybe you can have a similar features with your Internet sub?
What are the details of the “extra tiny box” brand name or whatever ? Yes that does sound like what OP wants
It has no branding beside a label on the bottom with a serial and some random things like that, plus the name of our ISP (the French Bouygues, in my case).
Edit: I just tested it (plugging it onto a monitor through HDMI and to the network, Ethernet) and it seems to be some kind of android thingy which gives access to, well, tv channels. There is also an accompanying remote.
Thanks for checking. Very kind of you. Some sort of android tv device by the sound of it.
I don’t know how it’s charged in France but in other European countries that “tiny box” is often part of a costlier subscription plan. And it’s a device fully controlled by the ISP.
The reason people buy those apple tv/google tv/Nvidia shield and others is to have as many content streamers as they may need in their home, and to have control over what they can display on their tv set.