Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

exanime@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From the article:

  These days, TV makers hardly make any money with their physical products. Roku’s FY 2023 earnings report shows that the company lost $44 million on the sale of smart TVs, streaming players and other devices in 2023. What brings in the bacon are ads and services; Roku generated a gross profit of nearly $1.6 billion with this business segment.

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  • exanime@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was joking that such a move would put them so hard on the shit list that people wouldn’t touch their products ever again

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    • Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I got that. What I wanted to express is that likely the opposite would happen. People just want cheap shit and don’t care about enshittification.

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      • exanime@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hmmm not so sure I agree with that … We take enshitification mostly when there is just no other option

        For example, stewing services started great and now are poop, but what’s the alternative? Back to cable? Never … I for one, took to the high seas but none of my friends have the time or knowhow (or honestly just the will) to follow

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