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| | 2020-Dec-15 9:26 am Re: Spectrum Television set app removed from Roku StoreI see your point, but I'm not certain that a provider like Peacock (Comcast) or HBO is willing to "pay up" to get at a perceived premium user. I would call back they're more interested in gaining mass marketplace share as there are advertisers that are seeking to reach all demographics. Subscribers can be sliced and diced based on a number of factors including geography, interests, affluence, age, etc. Targeted adverts are the beauty of streaming. |
| · deportment · 2020-December-fifteen ix:26 am · | |
| | 2020-December-fifteen 11:43 am 99$ for a device they can manufacture for 17$ (its Cortex 53 in some) is enough of turn a profit. skim and skim with paid placement; ads on the dwelling house screen and useless remote buttons sold to the highest bidder |
| · deportment · 2020-Dec-15 11:43 am · | |
| adam1991 | 2020-Dec-15 xi:50 am useless remote buttons I use the Netflix and Hulu buttons all the time. I also accept Plex programmed to the button ane in a higher place those. |
| · deportment · 2020-Dec-xv 11:50 am · | |
| | 2020-Dec-15 i:10 pm 99$ for a device they tin can manufacture for 17$ (its Cortex 53 in some) is plenty of profit. While I would concur they are probable not losing money on a retail sale (they are not Sony with the PS5, which is losing coin on each box shipped), merely it is slightly more complicated than the blank BoM toll, as you probably know. Engineers cost money to do the development, and there are certifications, and licenses, and the entire costs to provide the item on the shelf, as fifty-fifty the cardboard for the box costs money, and some retailers "lease" the shelf infinite, and take their own cut of the auction price, and for a visitor like Roku, there are lots of returns that have to be dealt with too. Monetizing your customers (with ads, and skimming a per centum of sales) is not a new thought, and Roku is following the well trodden path of others earlier them. |
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| | 2020-Dec-xv 5:35 pm Re: Spectrum Tv app removed from Roku StoreCare to share the interface yous are using for the PC? Typically, PCs are clunky and more direction than information technology's worth. The SAF is likewise unremarkably low with this. I use this: »www.amazon.com/gp/produc ··· H8Q54T9/ It'southward pocket-size and meaty, nicely hides in my TV panel, and connects through HDMI at 4k resolution. Runs Windows 10 Pro out of the box. The mini PC I also employ with VPN, so I can access content from Netherlands, Britain, Australia, Canada, among others.... To control it, I use this: »www.amazon.com/Logitech- ··· 14EUQOGK Small wireless keyboard, congenital in keypad for mouse activity. Basically, if it runs in a browser, it runs on my TV in whatsoever maximum resolution is provided. Roku has been disappointing me. I cut the cord in 2014, and have been a loyal Roku user ever since. Just as of tardily, I have been wondering whether I should swap information technology out for a Fire TV or Apple Tv. |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-xv v:35 pm · | |
| dstoffa | 2020-December-xv five:38 pm I'1000 by no ways 1 of the usual Spectrum-hating troglodytes. Merely on my listing of trust, Roku is a few notches in a higher place whatever cable TV visitor. Except if you see how Roku handled the whole Peacock and HBO Max situations the latter of which is still unresolved. I hateful individually you can blame any one of those three companies but when yous have three companies in the aforementioned situation and so it'south starting to expect like Roku is the consequence. It's similar if you get dumped three times in a row perhaps it's non them, it's you. No. You need to speak to NBC and HBO in those examples. Roku cannot force them to get on its platform. They are stalling for money. Well, when you buy the Roku, you own your piece of hardware. You aren't actually paying a monthly fee for the device, so what re-manual fee is to be negotiated? They are probably arguing over who owns data describing your viewing habits. In the cease, if you aren't paying for a product, you are the product. |
| · deportment · 2020-Dec-15 v:38 pm · | |
| adam1991 | 2020-December-15 5:51 pm Roku has been disappointing me. I cut the cord in 2014, and have been a loyal Roku user e'er since. But as of belatedly, I have been wondering whether I should swap information technology out for a Burn down TV or Apple tree TV. I just killed my Burn Telly boxes (gen two) and went all Roku. The Plex experience is WAY meliorate, and the Roku Ultras are very fast. Hulu and Netflix are the aforementioned. |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-15 5:51 pm · | |
| | 2020-December-15 vi:41 pm I merely killed my Fire TV boxes (gen 2) and went all Roku. The Plex experience is Way better, and the Roku Ultras are very fast. Hulu and Netflix are the same. I actually don't own plenty bluray movies to digitize to make plex worth while, and the few torrents I download are actually not worth it either.... and so plex is VERY depression on the priority list for me. Unless in that location are other things yous can exercise with it that I have not really worked out... Streaming apps are the most important for me. Roku IS serving me well, but the fact that they are playing hardball with several providers is not helping. |
| · deportment · 2020-Dec-fifteen 6:41 pm · | |
| adam1991 | 2020-Dec-15 7:23 pm I really don't own enough bluray movies to digitize to make plex worth while well, I don't know about any of that. I don't carp with Blu-ray Disc. I don't actually care all that much nearly resolution. But there'south plenty it can do. I have movies stored there; I take Telly series stored there; I'thou using it as a DVR. And I apply the Plex app to access the servers from some friends. I also share out my Plex server to family. Oh--and it likewise has its own Television set and music channels. As I said, Hulu and Netflix are the two streaming apps I utilize. I approximate my married woman discovered the Roku channel the other twenty-four hour period. We gave up Prime, so I don't care about that. Plex and Hulu are my go-to. I refuse to chase after the content owners as they spin up their ain streaming services, complete with...crap like what'south in this discussion. Oh--Amazon obviously doesn't want to support anyone else that can sell movies, so it e'er grated on me that my Fire Television receiver boxen kept me from my Vudu business relationship. At present, with Roku, that's no longer an event. |
| · deportment · 2020-Dec-15 vii:23 pm · | |
| | 2020-Dec-15 8:21 pm I use that. (AK2). I too use the awow34. Same toll merely the awake has m2 sata so I shoved a ane TB into information technology it a ghetto apps and file server |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-15 8:21 pm · | |
| the65gto | 2020-December-15 9:25 pm I accept 3 Roku's and of tardily, the spectrum Television set App has been downgraded for me. I.E. I am in Orlando, I cannot get any of the local channels like NBC, CBS, ABC etc. They are not offered to view. In that location are however many channels that I can view. I accept Spectrum TV services but I exercise no take Spectrum internet, thinking this might be the reason. ?? |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-fifteen nine:25 pm · | |
|  ·Comcast XFINITY ·T-MobileNetgear CM1000 Synology RT2600ac | 2020-Dec-15 ten:17 pm Unless at that place are other things y'all can do with it that I take non really worked out. Yous can do Live TV with Plex. Yous do require to purchase the Plex laissez passer and will need a Tv tuner in the server or a network TV turner. These tuners tin exist used with Cable cards or OTA antennas. I personally employ an antenna. We go 40 - 50 channels. About of it crap, just we get all the major broadcast networks. Plex besides can deed as a DVR for this content. Which is what I use information technology for. We have the HD Homerun Quatro which has 4 tuners. I record all my stuff thats on broadcast TV. Helps me save on data with Comcast so we dont go over the caps. The Plex server just uses data for the media info and for the guide, and its not that much data. The only bad office is the broadcast Goggle box is in a MPEG2 format and Roku'due south dont empathise that. So when my parents use Plex with their Roku'south the server has to transcode the content. Lucky that my server used to be a gaming PC and have the horses to do that. |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-15 10:17 pm · | |
| Ubee E31U2V1 Ubiquiti UniFi AP-AC-HD | 2020-Dec-15 11:13 pm The only bad part is the circulate TV is in a MPEG2 format and Roku's dont understand that. So when my parents use Plex with their Roku's the server has to transcode the content. Lucky that my server used to be a gaming PC and take the horses to practice that. There is besides the option to utilize Intel QuickSync or using a contempo and cheap Quadro carte, instead of installing a bulky processor for the Transcode threads. Or you can hack the NVIDIA Commuter to unlock the number of transcode threads allowed on a GeForce bill of fare. My problem with Rokus has been this, and the lack of proper DTS-MA and TrueHD support for Blu-Ray rips. Otherwise they work great with Plex. |
| · deportment · 2020-Dec-15 11:thirteen pm · | |
| adam1991 | 2020-Dec-16 5:24 am The just bad role is the broadcast TV is in a MPEG2 format and Roku's dont understand that. And so when my parents use Plex with their Roku'southward the server has to transcode the content. Lucky that my server used to be a gaming PC and take the horses to practice that. My Synology NAS doesn't suspension a sweat handling this. It'south not a large problem. |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-16 5:24 am · | |
| | 2020-Dec-16 vi:21 am Yeah doesn't really piece of work on an i5 3570K. Also I dont run Nvidia graphics cards. Never been able to afford one. AMD GPU transcoding works in simply Windows x and I run Ubuntu Linux. |
| · actions · 2020-December-16 6:21 am · | |
| | 2020-Dec-16 9:38 am Well, when you lot buy the Roku, you own your piece of hardware. You aren't really paying a monthly fee for the device, so what re-manual fee is to be negotiated? They are probably arguing over who owns information describing your viewing habits. In the end, if you aren't paying for a product, you are the product. Yeah, they're arguing over who owns the user data. They're too arguing over revenue sharing as information technology relates to subscription fees and advertising revenue. That's the real issue here. Roku claims that they're bringing millions of eyeballs to the tabular array (forth with the related demographic data), and therefore is entitled some slice of the acquirement pie in exchange for those valuable assets. |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-16 9:38 am · | |
| | 2020-Dec-sixteen nine:45 am You tin exercise Alive Goggle box with Plex. This is my favorite part. They have washed a lot to meliorate the Live Telly and DVR capabilities. I have encoded nigh all of my movies and Idiot box shows, and threw home movies on there likewise. I am but now playing with the music piece. I don't get why at that place is and then much love for Fire Television. I guess because they are cheap. I have had just about every iteration of them, having been sucked in with promos and such. Every one has given me problems. They disconnect from Wifi whenever they are idle for a day or two. Netflix often plays fine and and so when the next episode loads, it hangs at 25% until I reboot the thing. If a reboot doesn't work, I have to hack my way into immigration cache information or reinstalling the app. My Roku's never have a problem. I have 1 Fire left on a rarely used TV that I know I'll only ability off and back on before I even carp trying to employ it. |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-xvi 9:45 am · | |
| claibourne  ·Frontier FiberOp.. | 2020-Dec-16 9:56 am I accept 3 Roku's and of late, the spectrum TV App has been downgraded for me. I.E. I am in Orlando, I cannot become whatsoever of the local channels like NBC, CBS, ABC etc. They are non offered to view. There are still many channels that I can view. I have Spectrum Telly services merely I do no have Spectrum cyberspace, thinking this might exist the reason. ?? Yep that's the reason. To run across locals and some other channels, the Spectrum app expects you to be on your home Spectrum internet connection due to wagon agreements. If you apply a different Internet service provider y'all'll never appear to be on Spectrum internet. I accept Borderland Fiber internet and Spectrum TV, and face the same result. Merely we utilize a Tivo and a couple minis and so information technology's not really a big problem for us. |
| · actions · 2020-December-sixteen ix:56 am · | |
| | 2020-Dec-xvi 10:36 am I utilise a fire tv because information technology does MPEG2, so I don't transcode when I lookout Alive TV, unlike my parents who choose to apply Roku sticks. On the other side of it, Fire sticks are easily jail broken and enable piracy pretty easily. |
| · deportment · 2020-Dec-16 x:36 am · | |
| | 2020-Dec-16 10:45 am I paid $69 for each of the 3 Roku Ultra 4k 2020's in the past 2 months. One of them I scored when the cost was incorrectly placed on the shelf and then the other 2 were on black Friday when they were really priced at $69. These are $39.99 at Meijer stores using their current coupons if you have them locally. Besides, the Stick+ is $19.99. |
| · actions · 2020-December-sixteen 10:45 am · | |
| ke4pym | 2020-Dec-xvi 5:xvi pm Wooop - HBO Max is coming to the Roku on 12/17. »world wide web.theverge.com/2020/12 ··· nermedia |
| · deportment · 2020-Dec-16 5:16 pm · | |
| | 2020-Dec-17 12:fourteen am Wooop - HBO Max is coming to the Roku on 12/17. »www.theverge.com/2020/12 ··· nermedia interesting. |
| · deportment · 2020-Dec-17 12:14 am · | |
| | 2020-Dec-17 7:thirty am I have 3 Roku's and of belatedly, the spectrum TV App has been downgraded for me. I.E. I am in Orlando, I cannot become any of the local channels like NBC, CBS, ABC etc. They are not offered to view. In that location are all the same many channels that I can view. I have Spectrum Boob tube services but I do no have Spectrum cyberspace, thinking this might be the reason. ?? Yes, they are contractually obliged to keep the locals inside a certain region, and they don't control the internet of other providers. It Tin be done, the OTT providers such as Hulu, YoutubeTV and others exercise use geo-ip location and billing address to decide whether you tin can have locals, only that is their main bread and butter. They can't really become past service address, because you could just load the roku app on your uncles TV in due north Carolina and get the Florida locals.... and then they would really have to go by geo-ip location. Spectrums primary bread and butter is still concrete cable boxes and DVR's, so they aren't going to bother with geo-ip location for the app. It's an incentive NOT to exercise then for two reasons: Customers might be persuaded to purchase their cyberspace, and they tin sell them boosted tuner boxes for that Goggle box a customer wants locals on. The merely financial incentive to do and so is if they are losing SO many customers to OTT type services that they would have lilliputian choice. But near people cutting the string are going directly to on-need type services but I think.... |
| · actions · 2020-December-17 7:30 am · | |
| dstoffa | 2020-Dec-17 ix:41 pm I have three Roku'due south and of late, the spectrum TV App has been downgraded for me. I.E. I am in Orlando, I cannot get any of the local channels like NBC, CBS, ABC etc. They are not offered to view. In that location are however many channels that I can view. I have Spectrum Boob tube services only I exercise no have Spectrum net, thinking this might be the reason. ?? Yes, they are contractually obliged to keep the locals within a certain region, and they don't command the internet of other providers. It Can be done, the OTT providers such as Hulu, YoutubeTV and others do use geo-ip location and billing address to determine whether you lot tin can have locals, but that is their main bread and butter. They can't actually go past service address, because y'all could just load the roku app on your uncles TV in north Carolina and get the Florida locals.... so they would actually take to go by geo-ip location. Spectrums main bread and butter is still physical cable boxes and DVR's, and so they aren't going to carp with geo-ip location for the app. It's an incentive NOT to do so for ii reasons: Customers might be persuaded to purchase their cyberspace, and they tin sell them additional tuner boxes for that Idiot box a client wants locals on. The but financial incentive to exercise so is if they are losing SO many customers to OTT type services that they would have picayune choice. But most people cutting the string are going straight to on-demand blazon services merely I remember.... I am a Spectrum subscriber, to both video and internet. I have tried, in the by, to utilize my Roku and my Spectrum creds to access Spectrum programming at someone else's home, which was also on Spectrum. It doesn't piece of work. The mistake bulletin you become is that yous must be on your abode Spectrum net connection to utilise the Spectrum Boob tube App. Your service is tied to the MAC address of the authorized modem, and you must use the app behind that MAC address. At present, in that location is the TV-To-Become side of things, but what you tin can view outside the home is limited. What the content providers don't want you lot to exercise is hand out Spectrum ID's for your account, and take all your friends and relatives leech of your account.. I recollect people posting, "Why can't I take my Roku to my summertime dwelling house and picket the TV there?" And the reply was, "You need to exist backside the cable modem fastened to net service at the address where you pay for video service. You can bring the Roku, but you lot can only utilise the partner apps to view programming." |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-17 nine:41 pm · | |
| ·Comcast XFINITY·T-MobileNetgear CM1000 Synology RT2600ac | 2020-December-17 10:08 pm Just most people cutting the cord are going straight to on-need type services only I recollect.... And OTA Television set in select areas that have adept access. Thats what nosotros did with Comcast. We dropped phone and Boob tube and started using streaming services. I purchased a Plex pass and used my HDhomerun with my antenna to allow Live Television set from OTA. Works pretty well. Just yeah, most people are doing the whole on demand programing affair. The only ones who really care about live Tv are mainly the older people and sports fanatics. I myself have a few shows I spotter on a few streaming providers. I subscribe when the shows are on and cut the provider when Im done. I tape a few things off of OTA TV to save on my information cap. I dont really picket Live TV. This is why big Isp'south started purchasing content makers. Comcast owns NBC, AT&T owns HBO/Warner media. |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-17 10:08 pm · | |
| sestrada | 2020-Dec-xviii seven:46 am i never understood charter's marketing commercials for their internet television service with a low introductory price are all over the identify now this until atsc 3 or some other way to put a meter on the received signal comes out, ota + am/fm may make a comeback that should get theirs and roku'due south attention |
| · deportment · 2020-Dec-18 seven:46 am · | |
| | 2020-Dec-18 vii:48 am I am a Spectrum subscriber, to both video and internet. I have tried, in the past, to utilize my Roku and my Spectrum creds to access Spectrum programming at someone else'southward home, which was also on Spectrum. Information technology doesn't piece of work. The error message yous get is that yous must be on your habitation Spectrum net connexion to use the Spectrum Boob tube App. Your service is tied to the MAC address of the authorized modem, and y'all must use the app backside that MAC address. Now, there is the Telly-To-Become side of things, but what you can view exterior the abode is limited. What the content providers don't want you to do is hand out Spectrum ID's for your account, and have all your friends and relatives leech of your business relationship.. I recall people posting, "Why can't I have my Roku to my summer home and scout the TV at that place?" And the answer was, "You demand to exist behind the cable modem attached to internet service at the address where y'all pay for video service. Y'all tin can bring the Roku, but you can only utilise the partner apps to view programming." I got the same bulletin when trying to admission Spectrum Tv at my mother'southward Spectrum Internet/Television set served home in the Tampa area. I could admission some of my subscribed content, only non non all of it and none of my "locals". |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-18 7:48 am · | |
| | 2020-Dec-18 12:12 pm I love my Roku devices. They have been the simplest, most problem costless device for streaming out of everything I take tried. They just piece of work, which is why I estimate they are the market leader. Now they desire to get a slice of the activeness for every media provider out there, and cram more stuff onto their Roku aqueduct. Did they hire a agglomeration of old cable execs to run the identify or something? They are getting too large for their britches. NBC slapped them down and others should likewise. Just stick to what yous are bang-up at and stop being jerks. I'll keep my roku until the stuff I care about disappears, but I can't hardware-hop around all over the place chasing downward the stuff I want to lookout man. I recollect when Blackberry thought they had the earth past the short hairs. Look where they are now. Concord 100%. The slap-up thing about Roku was that everything worked on information technology. One device, one remote - it made things like shooting fish in a barrel even for people who weren't so tech savvy. With the way things are going, nosotros're all going to accept 5 streaming devices hanging off the back of the Tv set. I don't see how that is sustainable. Obviously Roku has to make money somehow - they can't exist making annihilation off the devices, but they aren't going to sell any devices if there is no content. Playing the aforementioned games the cable companies have played that people are trying to become abroad from is not a sensible strategy. Perchance selling devices at a loss or very little profit isn't a good long term business organization strategy. At some point it makes more sense to just hook upward a small PC and be done with the streaming devices entirely. Just stream everything from a web browser. |
| · deportment · 2020-Dec-18 12:12 pm · | |
| | 2020-Dec-18 3:53 pm They make a crap ton off the devices. 20$ on some and millions licensing from TCL (a few bucks per TV). I don't demand all the heavy handed tactics abs commercials and crap on my Home Screen for something I already paid for |
| · actions · 2020-Dec-eighteen iii:53 pm · | |
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