Who introduces this reviled junk NOW, after years of mockery, and on a media player? Anyone who actually wants this (or doesn't care) already has it on his TV, making its addition to individual sources stupid and redundant.
Reading between the lines slightly, it sounds like this affects TVs running Roku software for inbuilt "smarts" rather than the media players themselves. Still not great, of course.
From the article: "[Maybe] Roku is operating with such large numbers these days that every decision is a fly-by-wire corporate abstraction far from the bare metal of the user experience. This means upgrades and features gain unstoppable internal force and the only thing that can stop them is the immovable object of financial results months or years later."
This is the most optimized feedback loop: one without a user. See all the major tech companies for addt'l examples, from AMZN to X.
I like the other explanation: Roku is basically an appliance company with no internal culture of culture, so it just never came up and now they're dealing with all this stuff they didn't realize had anything to do with what they sold.
They could be selling video streaming, or video poker. They don't care, as long as they have subscribers.
What I don't understand is why cinephiles would be streaming through a Roku anyway. Shouldn't they be downloading 18K TURBO-HD straight from the Academy's server?
I bought a Roku years ago, when Hulu was a viable alternative to Netflix, and was very surprised to discover that we had access to fewer shows on Hulu after subscribing to Hulu (and paying for the privilege) through Roku. Simply put, if you were just watching Hulu anonymously for free then you had access to more shows than if you were paying for Hulu through Roku.
Probably the fastest product return I have ever made.
I haven't noticed anything on my TCL with built-in Roku that I use as my computer display. But that's because I have game mode on all the time and I just checked it by disabling game mode and I'm pretty sure at least mine's not affected.
I wonder if this is only enabled for certain content?
I also have a TCL TV and would definitely notice this effect, and I typically use Movie picture mode so you'd expect it would be triggered, but doesn't seem to be present on YouTube or other streaming sources.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40875351
This is the most optimized feedback loop: one without a user. See all the major tech companies for addt'l examples, from AMZN to X.
They could be selling video streaming, or video poker. They don't care, as long as they have subscribers.
first time dealing with capitalism, eh?
Probably the fastest product return I have ever made.
55R615 model
I also have a TCL TV and would definitely notice this effect, and I typically use Movie picture mode so you'd expect it would be triggered, but doesn't seem to be present on YouTube or other streaming sources.
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Why anyone willingly choses Roku anymore is beyond me.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-media-stream...