buy a roku
Wait, what? A Roku has more ads than a fire TV. 1/3 of the screen is always an ad. For new releases they’ll sell the entire screen as an ad. ( Disney’s Seeing Red was a full screen splash ad on my Roku.)
Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV
Narlythotep@lemmy.world 1 year agoI gave them 1 star and left a bad review for each of the fire tvs…they called me about the revie and then did nothing…buy a roku and throw out your $800 fire tv…it is worth it to take the loss for your own sanity
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Narlythotep@lemmy.world 1 year ago
OK open to any other options and I mean any…there has got to be someone who can wite hacks to fix issues like this…they are doing it for chrome?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Roku is more closed than Amazon fire. I’ve read about rooted Fires.
Apple TV seems the least intrusive right now but I’ve never used one personally.
garretble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve had an AppleTV for about five years+ now and have yet to see an ad placed on the main screen.
braxy29@lemmy.world 1 year ago
the ads on roku do not impact my experience, they go away as soon as i open anything.
Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 1 year ago
*do not yet
Only a matter of time
braxy29@lemmy.world 1 year ago
i will give you that one. 😮💨
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Lol the Roku has far more invasive ads. Get a Chromecast, or best yet, an Nvidia Shield.
ultranaut@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I recently bought a Roku and was surprised to find they force ads on their home screen. It’s obviously not as terrible as a fullscreen ad but its still very annoying.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Roku also does not work well with Crunchyroll at all.
You can’t get any dubs, and if you get subtitles - they only seem to be in the language the show is. E. G. Japanese subtitles only for Japanese Audio.
It’s so dumb that neither Crunchyroll nor Roku will budge
atocci@kbin.social 1 year ago
What do you mean they won't budge? Is this a conscious decision they're both making to spite one another?
Patches@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Roku controls Subtitles/Language as a system level which means Crunchyroll can’t fix it.
Roku refuses to budge that subtitles must match language spoken.
Crunchyroll is “fixing” the issue by creating duplicate seasons - one for each language - but that is a very slow process and it only fixes the dub
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The Roku does nothing at all better than the Nvidia Shield. Roku also has giant ads you can’t get rid of. They recently blocked the few workarounds people found.
Honestly, you could just flash the fire stick. That might be the cheapest and most effective option.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The Nvidia Shield is $200. You might as well buy a used laptop, a nuc, or an old desktop at that point.
It also already had End Of Life of one of its key feature - Game Streaming.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Roku has done occasional full screen ads too.