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Patches@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoRoku 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
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.
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.
atocci@kbin.social 9 months 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 9 months 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
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Once again I’m reminded that piracy offers a better user experience than the paid options.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It does. But it’s difficult to obtain 1000+ episodes of One Piece.
scottywh@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Netflix doesn’t use Roku’s system level language / subtitle settings so I assume there’s a way around it for other apps as well.
atocci@kbin.social 9 months ago
Yeah, there's definitely foreign language English subtitled content on Netflix that can be watched on Roku. I don't think apps are required to use the Roku system subtitles. I'm more inclined to think Crunchyroll just isn't supporting their Roku app properly.
braxy29@lemmy.world 9 months ago
what? i can’t speak specifically to crunchyroll (not willing to pay for it), but i watch a lot of movies in languages other than english with english subtitles on roku.
if roku is insisting on this (?), they aren’t insisting on it for other services like hbo.