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Re: Fox to buy Roku

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Post by mike_bob »

anon7000 wrote: post #80

Where is anti-trust in this country? Absolutely absurd the levels of media consolidation we’re seeing under billionaires right now.

Biden signed a few anti-trust acts into law and also issued executive order 14036 to try to reign in anti-competitive practices. Trump quite literally revoked every one of these within his first month returning to office, calling them "bad for business".

Who is it actually bad for? The consumers. The new religious-linked GOP no longer believes in fairness or holding business accountable for anything, it's "God's will" or something...

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Post by toraway »

munk-a wrote: post #234
vitally3643 wrote: post #212

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"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.

Uh, it's a complete false dichotomy? There is literally no reason you need to participate in a botnet to stream content for free.

That's ... not a thing. Those sticks just glom on to free software maintained by other hardworking unpaid devs to steal residential IPs from unsuspecting buyers drawn to the "all-in-one" pitch for their sketchy VPNs and/or botnets. Then, eventually whatever API keys/endpoints they stole for streaming stop working and all you're left with is the botnet part of the deal.

This is like saying the included porn malware you got bundled with uTorrent from the first sponsored link on Google is a price worth paying to access The Pirate Bay and stick it to Netflix, lol.

Why earth would anyone voluntarily advocate for that/defend the malware authors instead of just downloading qBitorrent from Github like a normal person?!

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Post by gmueckl »

starik36 wrote: post #297
mike_bob wrote: post #293

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Biden passed some of the toughest anti-trust laws in the past 20 years, but Trump repealed them quite literally in the first month he returned to office, calling anti-trust legislation as "bad for business".

The only entity that "passes" laws in this country is Congress. You mean via executive order? That's not exactly passing a law.

Executive orders can effectively kneecap any efforts to put laws into effect, as we can see almost daily since 20. January 2025.

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Post by dylan604 »

nemomarx wrote: post #284
dylan604 wrote: post #280

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When ever is pirating not cheap? Isn't that the whole point?

Less technically inclined users can be tricked into paying for pirated content, especially if the free way requires a little set up or work.

That would be ballsy. I could see a rebranded PopcornTime as a monthly subscription platform that gain some attraction. However, I'd imagine that majority would be from lawyers. For a country that doesn't give a damn about IP laws, this might be an interesting start up

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Post by codazoda »

hbn wrote: post #285
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.

The only issue with Apple TV is they still can't figure out a good remote. I feel like I need to hold my breath and be very intentional with my swipes so when I'm e.g. swiping up/down to get to a menu where I can turn on subtitles I don't accidentally swipe left or right, sending me scrubbing 17 minutes forward. Either touch is a bad input mechanism for controlling your TV, or Apple hasn't figured it out.

Yeah, I hate the remote, which is why I never use Apple TV even though I both own one and have the Apple TV service.

Maybe I'll try the remote the other user here mentioned.

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Post by pier25 »

beastman82 wrote: post #288
pier25 wrote: post #268

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> I think the Apple TV is the best streaming box out there It definitely is. IMO the only advantage of the Nvidia Shield is better HDMI audio passthrough but it has so many other issues. And with more recent versions of the Plex client for tvOS the lack of audio passthrough is much less of an issue than it used to be (PCM conversion used to introduce sync issues). Also the Plex app for Android TV has been getting con…

what are the shield issues? I've had 2 of them for 10 years and I haven't noticed anything.

For years it had frame rate issues. Every second or so when watching eg Netflix you would see a micro stutter if the content wasn't at 24fps (eg PAL content at 25fps). I think this was improved recently but it's been years since I've used the Shield for anything but Plex.

As for Plex I've had way too many issues to list. Networking issues, having to restart the Plex app after the device went to sleep, etc. When I switched to using Plex on the Apple TV all the issues went away.

It should be noted that I have re-pasted and cleaned the dust of my Shield a couple of times since I got it 10 years ago.

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Post by codazoda »

greenbit wrote: post #289

When roku decided that Amazon was the rightful owner of my fastforward button about a year and a half ago, that nearly got it tossed, but since Netflix was still behaving, I still have my roku. But if (as I suspect) we're about to behold the power of this fully functional ad-server, it WILL go directly into the e-waste.

Daily Roku user here. I'm not sure what you mean about Amazon and the fastforward button.

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Post by toraway »

CrimsonCape wrote: post #247
prepend wrote: post #200

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I run Plex and am pretty happy. Will likely eventually switch to Jellyfin as Plex is getting lamer and lamer.

Jellyfin's worst aspect is the opinionated file structure. You have to set up folders the way it wants, and then the resulting UI browser is what-you-see-is-what-you-get. Pretty sure it's done this way for automated metadata discovery. Ideally, this would be designed in two parts: separate the file structure from the metadata discovery mechanism. I personally want a file structure managed by the OS. Let me make folde…

Yeah that's the Number 1 issue I have with Jellyfin.

It seems to be tolerating whatever semi-organized structure I give it until it just faceplants on some specific show and I have to tediously reorganize the directory structure/names and manual refresh until the metadata lines up correctly.

I like that I don't feel I'm about to be rugpulled on Jellyfin and the client is pretty solid for me but the library scanning is pretty aggravating at times.

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Post by Benanov »

Arainach wrote: post #290
greenbit wrote: post #289

When roku decided that Amazon was the rightful owner of my fastforward button about a year and a half ago, that nearly got it tossed, but since Netflix was still behaving, I still have my roku. But if (as I suspect) we're about to behold the power of this fully functional ad-server, it WILL go directly into the e-waste.

> Amazon was the rightful owner of my fastforward button What do you mean by this? The back button is involved in system UI and apps should be limited in their ability to steal it, but fast forward is an action that makes no sense outside the context of an app

Can't skip ahead to sections of their content you want to view and instead are forced to watch it in sequence.

Either that or can't skip ads, ala legal dvd playback

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