Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months agoFrom 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.
exanime@lemmy.today 3 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
Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de 3 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.
exanime@lemmy.today 3 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