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My TV is old and dumb and I love it. But the majority of my streaming is done through my Roku, and increasingly I am bombarded by advertising and attempts to se
by andrewla 2y ago
My TV is old and dumb and I love it. But the majority of my streaming is done through my Roku, and increasingly I am bombarded by advertising and attempts to sell Roku's own streaming service.
Ironic because the reason that Roku exists rather than being part of Netflix is that Hastings didn't want the streaming to be tied to distribution.
Looks like whatever they're doing isn't working as a strategy though if they're this close to being bought out.
I personally wish that Roku would sell an ad-free no-self-streaming version at twice the price; three times the price. I'd snap it up in an instant and never look back.
Do people have thoughts about the pros and cons of the alternatives? Amazon Fire TV is the only one that I've used extensively other than Roku and it is terrible. NVidia Shield? Plex? Google TV? Android TV? Apple TV? What do people like now?