Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

OceanMew@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Sl00k@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I see this thrown around a lot.

  90% of us watch Netflix, Plex, YT TV or some other streaming service, how do I watch these with 4k quality without connecting to the Internet? That’s just an unrealistic request for 90% of TV users.

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Use a separate, not ad-riddled device plugged in via HDMI. If you have a game console it can do this.

    I don’t know what’s good for Android TV boxes it used to be the NVIDIA Shield was a well regarded streaming device but it’s really old now. Google makes one (Google TV Streamer) and you can install a custom launcher if you’re a bit technical and the “suggested content” of the stock launcher bothers you. Same for other Android TV boxes.

    Apple, like them or not, makes a really decent TV box with no system level ads and an interface that mostly stays out of the way.

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