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A ton of people ask me for TV recommendations. Rokus were my goto, but not anymore. I won’t buy one. Their response so far suggests this isn’t on accident (it’
by pseudosavant 2y ago
A ton of people ask me for TV recommendations. Rokus were my goto, but not anymore. I won’t buy one.
Their response so far suggests this isn’t on accident (it’s a feature!) and they won’t change it back. I’ll probably have to not hook up the internet on my next TV. Use a steaming box instead.
- devilbunny 2y agoI have a TCL Roku TV. It is not, has never been, and will never be connected to the Internet. I have to restart it periodically because there’s a strange sound system bug that makes the audio insanely quiet, but it sure was cheap. It gets its video from a TiVO or an AppleTV box. I’m not using the internal software for anything - I don’t trust it at all. You might think the same of Apple, and that’s fine, but I’m posting this from my iPad, I have an iPhone and an Apple Watch and a Mac; they could screw me any time they wanted to, but other than pushing out strange UI they haven’t.
- pseudosavant 2y agoAgree on Apple, they could screw up over but they really do look at users as the customers because we give them most of their revenues. Consumers are at best the #3 most important customer, after advertisers and TV manufacturers, for Roku. They have incentive to not care about consumers.