It sounds to be the situation but I wouldn't put it past them to try and fuck everyone who owns their devices not just people who bought roku tvs
Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
Glowstick@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This would only effect people who are using the roku service built into their tv, yes?
Entropywins@kbin.social 7 months ago
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
For now, yes. The patent discussed in the article suggests that the Roku TV reads the input HDMI signal even if you aren’t using a Roku App to determine whether you are idle and show ads when the screen doesn’t change much.