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Re: Fox to buy Roku

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Post by lenerdenator »

ivanmontillam wrote: post #216
lenerdenator wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that the whole point is to prevent consolidation that is to the detriment of consumers, well, yeah.

yeah, but who's to say Fox is gonna screw up this one? Like the government saying: "Sorry Fox, you cannot have this one, this one is too good for your dinosaur management." Since that's a very dangerous government hand meddling, I guess the correct move is to let it happen (to our liking or not).

> yeah, but who's to say Fox is gonna screw up this one?

I mean... gestures widely

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Post by munk-a »

tencentshill wrote: post #210
freeAgent wrote: post #186

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Ironically, I think the Apple TV is the best streaming box out there. Of course, Apple is both the manufacturer and a streamer in their own right. And they definitely privilege their own store and streaming over other services. However, everything else already sucks so much with UIs chock full of ads that Apple wins anyway. It’s awful.

Some apps on the apple tv still have ads on the pause screen (covering the content I may have wanted to pause to see, a terrible UX choice). It can't be entirely avoided.

It can if you avoid a dedicated device and just hook a desktop up to your TV. It's a one time cost to set up a host you control and that seems to be getting more and more worth it.

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Post by righthand »

marssaxman wrote: post #171
righthand wrote: post #148

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You can go to Walmart and buy a streaming box that is a Raspberry pi-sized board with custom Android installed and the package claims it has 700+ channels. But it just is an overlay for pirate streaming sites.

> just is an overlay for pirate streaming sites Now you're making it sound even more interesting. What is the name of this device?

“Superbox” I believe.

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Post by munk-a »

vitally3643 wrote: post #212
prepend wrote: post #203

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Which is a decent trade off for unlimited content.

"I'm willing to make everyone else's life worse for minor personal convenience"

Ah, the choice content providers made a few years back that put us all in this situation to begin with - throw constant ads at us for marginal revenue.

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Post by GolfPopper »

vitally3643 wrote: post #212
prepend wrote: post #203

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Which is a decent trade off for unlimited content.

"I'm willing to make everyone else's life worse for minor personal convenience"

That's the spirit of the age here in America, no? When so many of our leading public figures are hyper-wealthy individuals who are where they're via various sorts of shuffling costs onto others and pocketing profits, is it any surprise when the public seeks to do the same?

It's ultimately utterly destructive, of course. Wish I had a good solution.

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Post by fckgw »

Roku's hardware business is only 10% of their revenue now. The vast majority of their income comes from their FAST streaming service, which they promote heavily on their devices.

They haven't been platform agnostic for a while now. Swapping out one streaming owner for another really isn't going to move the needle much.

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Post by M95D »

BobaFloutist wrote: post #221
05 wrote: post #219

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If the box where I can’t set up a third party player to do the ‘replay last 5 seconds with subtitles on’ because it’s all locked down is the best then I don’t want to know what the worst is, I’ll just keep using LibreElec. At least if LibreElec does something I don’t like Claude can fix it.

What box do you put librelec on?

[Removed bad comment. Sorry.]

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Post by carlosjobim »

dylan604 wrote: post #34

Ugh, Fox. I recently made the decision to not spend $10.99/month for their FoxOne app to stream World Cup matches. I decided to watch the Telemundo broadcasts instead, even though I don’t speak Spanish, just to not give Fox my money. If I were Roku user, this would definitely cause me to quit being a Roku user. I doubt I’d be the only one, but I also do not believe it will be enough total to be noticeable.

Do you think people will throw away their perfectly functioning devices because of politics?
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