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Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

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Re: Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

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I'm in a subculture where people mostly don't own televisions (I do watch shows on my laptop, occasionally) but so I have never seen motion smoothing - is there a demo, online, like on youtube or something, that can give me a sense of what you are talking about?

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Re: Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

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post #52

I'm in a subculture where people mostly don't own televisions (I do watch shows on my laptop, occasionally) but so I have never seen motion smoothing - is there a demo, online, like on youtube or something, that can give me a sense of what you are talking about?

Hard to see in this clip, but it's super annoying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkSjTgrVa3w

Re: Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

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Dumb TVs are getting harder to find. It would be easier to login on your router and deny access to your smart TV.

Not plugging your TV into the network also works quite well.

5G service channel says otherwise.

Re: Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

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I hate to break it to you, but you are only a tiny fraction of the users of something like Roku. The software isn't developed for individual users, it's developed according to a product roadmap, which is itself driven by the behavior of the largest and most profitable cohort of users.

If you don't fall into that category, you don't have a choice. Things that may be irritating or upsetting to you, if they make money or drive some number that helps a manager get a promotion internally, you're simply out of luck when it comes to software.

Products aren't built for individual users, they are built for massive collections of users that generate revenue.

Re: Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

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I hate to break it to you, but you are only a tiny fraction of the users of something like Roku. The software isn't developed for individual users, it's developed according to a product roadmap, which is itself driven by the behavior of the largest and most profitable cohort of users. If you don't fall into that category, you don't have a choice. Things that may be irritating or upsetting to you, if they make money o…

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.

Re: Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

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I used to like my Roku TV. It has a pretty straightforward interface, just tiles of all your apps, and the ads are to the side, out of the way. I love the simple ergonomic remote control. But their actions recently have gotten me looking for a new TV. First the thing with forcing new terms of service on everyone. Now this. My Roku TV has gotten way slower in the past year or so, to the point where many apps are nearly unusable. And I guess they'll be pushing video ads soon.

Re: Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

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For the second part, 100%. I started years ago already collecting my own flac files, and I'm quite careful on picking the best mastering if possible. In 2024, finally, some of the latest remasters are great (like the new Steely Dans from Bernie Grundman). But between 2000-2015 or something a remaster of an album was usually just compressed to the maximum and made very _loud_. For some of my favorite albums I have mul…

Where do you find masters? I only know of stems ripped from games like Rock Band.

There is nothing official available. There may or may not be services in the internet that meticulously archive every possible master and of course you can go to discogs to buy a physical copy of a certain version of the album if somebody still has it.

This is for me over two decades of hard work and deep interest into music. I highly value my collection.

Re: Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

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I hate to break it to you, but you are only a tiny fraction of the users of something like Roku. The software isn't developed for individual users, it's developed according to a product roadmap, which is itself driven by the behavior of the largest and most profitable cohort of users. If you don't fall into that category, you don't have a choice. Things that may be irritating or upsetting to you, if they make money o…

I agree with you and this is why I choose android or android-based streaming devices, in my case Fire TV. There’s enough hackability built into android that you can use e.g. tasker or other dedicated macro apps to do just enough customization that it ends up working the way you want. I know I’m the minority and most people don’t care or take it for granted how the thing works, but I don’t.

In my case I basically would love if Fire TV never did another update, stayed on old Android 9, and just let me use the three or four streaming apps with my custom launcher – I don’t want anything else, thanks

Re: Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

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This is why I buy my TV and never connect it to the internet. Between the invasive conversation monitoring and ad spots on the menu, it's much better to buy an Apple TV / Nvidia Shield.

My lg works great. No additional remote, no extra cable.

LG has opt out monitoring, check your menus for it, it defaults to "on" for several models including $1200 OLEDs

Just wait until earnings line goes down, then they will make pay to play probably.

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