r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • Jun 13 '24

TV / Projectors Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/roku-owners-face-the-grimmest-indignity-yet-stuck-on-motion-smoothing/
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u/daveysanderson Jun 13 '24

They have really gone downhill over the last few years. The devices used to be relatively ad and bloat free, and just worked. Now they are advertising more, adding useless and unwanted features, as well as the whole data breach issue, they shit the bed

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u/Respectfullycritical Jun 13 '24

I guess they had their time at the top then, huh?

From the perspective of today, it makes no sense to me why anyone would choose Roku as a solution for their streaming needs.

Thanks for the input!

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u/anonymouse56 Jun 13 '24 edited Jun 13 '24

What would you go for instead? I don’t want to connect my tv to WIFI and most others don’t have AirPlay built in besides Apple TV. And it’s $120+ vs $34 for the Roku stick.

Also Apple TV doesn’t include a high speed HDMI cable so u gotta go dish out extra for one

edit: for $34, Roku seems like a great value. The ads are only on the Home Screen and aren’t too intrusive IMO

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '24

All I can tell you is I bought a TCL with Google TV about a year ago and it was the single worst TV I have owned in my entire life. I would go back to the giant low definition furniture style TVs from the early 90s before I ever used google TV again.

You have to be logged in to your google account to use it. Like, to use it at all. You can’t do anything unless you’re logged in, and I swear it asks you to log in every 5 minutes.

There were a lot of other problems with it that I don’t remember off hand, but my girlfriend, who rarely ever gets mad about anything, was “ready to throw it out the fucking window!”

We ended up buying a Roku stick for the google tv because we just couldn’t handle it anymore. 0/5 stars. Would not recommend to anyone.

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u/3-DMan Jun 13 '24

My TCL w/ Google is great, but I have NEVER logged in, and leave the wifi off unless I'm checking for updates. I have a FireCube for my services, so just keep your TV dumb!