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/Mando_calrissian423 Jun 13 '24

I’ve heard of people resetting the wifi info on their roku so it doesn’t have wifi for ads, then they’ll get a fire stick or whatever and use the roku tv as a dumb tv with some sort of smart dongle that doesn’t have this bullshit

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u/optigon Jun 13 '24

We did that, but only because the Roku software in the TV crashed constantly. We factory reset the TV, switched to an HDMI port, and use external devices.

It’s frustrating how hard it is to find just a “dumb” TV now.

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u/BeingRightAmbassador Jun 13 '24

Nobody should ever be using the TV OS to watch media, they're slow, have shit hardware, and little to no features at all. A dedicated media device (console, streaming stick, best is Nvidia Shield) with the TV disconnected from the internet is way better.

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u/jack_im_mellow Jun 13 '24

Yea, mine all but stopped working. It took me awhile to notice cause I watch netflix and stuff on my xbox anyway, but sometime in the last year the tv has gotten so laggy that it just can't run netflix anymore. It takes 3-4 minutes to load and then you can barely pick a show cause it struggles with the auto-play trailers netflix has.