Roku's Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs

Post by mamcx » Mon, Mar 04, 2024, 12:49 AM UTC

drewg123 wrote: post #7

ProjectArcturis wrote: post #5

Smart TVs have gotten absolutely terrible. My 2016 TCL Roku used to be pretty decent - quickly responsive, all the apps worked reasonably well, not filled with garbage. I didn't love the ads but they weren't particularly intrusive. By now, though, it's a lot less responsive, and I often have to tell it to check the WiFi connection even when nothing has changed, or else it thinks it isn't connected to the internet. Th…

Get an AppleTV. Its responsive, and doesn't shove ads in your face. The downside is a lack of sideloading. I keep a firestick around for what I need to sideload, and cringe my way through the onslaught of ads to get into whatever app I need.

Post by yummypaint » Mon, Mar 04, 2024, 2:02 AM UTC

drewg123 wrote: post #7

ProjectArcturis wrote: post #5

Smart TVs have gotten absolutely terrible. My 2016 TCL Roku used to be pretty decent - quickly responsive, all the apps worked reasonably well, not filled with garbage. I didn't love the ads but they weren't particularly intrusive. By now, though, it's a lot less responsive, and I often have to tell it to check the WiFi connection even when nothing has changed, or else it thinks it isn't connected to the internet. Th…

Get an AppleTV. Its responsive, and doesn't shove ads in your face. The downside is a lack of sideloading. I keep a firestick around for what I need to sideload, and cringe my way through the onslaught of ads to get into whatever app I need.

Post by theGeatZhopa » Mon, Mar 04, 2024, 8:12 AM UTC

slig wrote: post #12

ProjectArcturis wrote: post #5

Smart TVs have gotten absolutely terrible. My 2016 TCL Roku used to be pretty decent - quickly responsive, all the apps worked reasonably well, not filled with garbage. I didn't love the ads but they weren't particularly intrusive. By now, though, it's a lot less responsive, and I often have to tell it to check the WiFi connection even when nothing has changed, or else it thinks it isn't connected to the internet. Th…

Got a LG C2 last year, set up the country to some one-weird-trick that I found out on Reddit and it gives me exactly zero BS. 10/10 so far.

Post by slig » Mon, Mar 04, 2024, 4:22 PM UTC

theGeatZhopa wrote: post #15

slig wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Got a LG C2 last year, set up the country to some one-weird-trick that I found out on Reddit and it gives me exactly zero BS. 10/10 so far.

You care for telling more on this by chance?

Post by Larrikin » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 5:32 AM UTC

DoktorDelta wrote: post #14

zrail wrote: post #3

Roku seemed like the least bad choice when we were picking a new tv a few years ago, so that's what we have. If I could find a dumb display of the same size and quality without any of this software at a price even in the same ballpark I would opt for that, but that's not how the industry works anymore.

Same here. I'm planning on replacing my Roku TV with a Google/Android TV model and replacing the launcher to avoid ads. Then I'll sideload a YouTube client that has sponsorblock and adblock so I can get the benefits of YT Premium.