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- technology@lemmy.world
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No Roku products. Gotcha.
Roku has patented a way to ensure I will never own one of their devices, and I’ll do my best to ensure no family or friends do either.
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This is like really horrific but if I’m being honest, it’s not going to happen. I think LG did a patent where you had to shout the brand being displayed on ads to skip an ad— and they never did that. This is probably a good thing so that other companies can’t use it for a few hundred years
So they break HDMI compliance in other words.
This is burying the lead. It’s not just about showing ads. It is tracking everything you on your TV, whether or not it a roku service
FYI, it’s “lede”
Lede has a very specific meaning and is seldom used outside of journalism, lead is perfectly acceptable in common vernacular
Yes, and this was that very specific meaning and was used in the context of journalism.
Language is meant to convey meaning. You clearly understood the meaning, so the language succeeded.
So, any recs. on good dumb tvs?
I’m upgrading to a projector soon, but also would love a few screens with actual buttons on the device incase of the inevitable remote loss.
I’m personally thinking of just plugging a decently capable little media PC into the display, using KDE’s “big screen” interface with KDE Connect as a remote. I’m pretty sure I could train my family on that…
Roku is so scummy.
This is my thought:
Good enough laptops are about $200, and Linux is free.
Then there are fairly good projectors for like $80 or less that have hdmi, av, rgb, etc. with an led bulb.
So, grand total about $300 for a massive screen and zero ads.
Roku was such an easy recommendation for a long time… Non-complex UI, long support for updates, not owned by google or amazon… Far cheaper than LG and Samsung… (Not that Samsung’s UI is anywhere near as easy as roku)
But now I guess thats done. Unless an alternate firmware exists or this doesn’t hit older TVs I guess I’ll be looking for a new TV… Which is a shame because my current 4 year old roku TV is more than capable.
You know, this a good thing. Now nobody else can do it, so I just need to never buy a Roku.
Remember when Netflix started showing ads on a paid plan, and everybody was saying they’ll quit.
“Haha! Look how Netflix will be thrown into the hole with Blockbuster, so nobody will follow.”
So, where are we today? Everybody starts doing it, and Netflix is better than it was then.
Yeah, you’ll have to forgive me for not being so sure Roku will eat too much shit over this, and that more companies will not follow.
I see Samsung’s boner from here.
