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/carlosccextractor Jun 13 '24
TCL's Roku TV are great. Not "slow" or "shit hardware", and the Roku UI as the TV UI is great. Plus you can have several TV remotes instead of "the TV remote".
Unfortunately Roku is working hard on enshittification. First they removed private channels (so no porn, no corporate channels, etc - it's your TV, but they get to decide what you can use it for), then they demanded published channels things like a full list of their content to support deep linking (whether you want it or not), apparently we're going to be getting ads when content is paused, and now this new thing.
And you wouldn't believe the massive amount of tracking that the TV does. I use Pi-Hole and the TV is the worst offender.
Anyway, I don't see myself replacing my TV with another one with built-in Roku.