“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
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I have been using an onn 4k streaming box, which runs Google TV. They're $20. It's pretty easy to disable the default launcher and have it boot to Flauncher. Then you can side load smart tube for an ad free YouTube experience asking with Plex, stremio, or whatever else you want to stream.
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I got the shield too, it's amazing. Upgraded from an old Chromecast and it's night and day, didn't realize how slow the Chromecast was, even on Ethernet.
oh man, hard agree, the shield is the kind of android boxes
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A buddy sent me this recently. I'm intrigues. https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=46513
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I have a Roku ultra in my kid's room.
I do not want her subjected to ads when she turns on the TV.
This is unacceptable to me and I will be replacing all my Rokus immediately.
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I was seeing the Moana promo with my Roku streaming stick on a Samsung TV. Didn't look like an ad exactly tho, just a nice ocean background behind the menu.
personally I prefer android streaming boxes, because you can install custom versions of android tv on them, so if the official release from google is bad, you can just go to the community version
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Steam Link works well if they're still around.
i have 3 just in case one dies
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personally I prefer android streaming boxes, because you can install custom versions of android tv on them, so if the official release from google is bad, you can just go to the community version
There any custom versions you can point me to? I've been looking for a custom Android OS to install on my Insignia Fire TV.
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There any custom versions you can point me to? I've been looking for a custom Android OS to install on my Insignia Fire TV.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
lineageOS, but you have to have a supported device, and I'm not seeing that device on there. Plus fire tv's are pretty locked down. I would suggest walmarts onn 4k box or an nvidia shield
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Why even connect the tv to your local network?
I used Netflix on my TV but after the password sharing and other issues I choose to block network access.
Most of my Internet is done on my computer.
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I.democratically hate all smart TVs.
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Think of any invasive streaming devices in your house. Samsung, Google Chromecast, ATV, LG etc. Roku is by far the worst.
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Why even connect the tv to your local network?
Wake on LAN. At least that's what I do. I can turn on the TV and adjust the volume from Home Assistant but the TV itself can't reach the Internet.
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Think of any invasive streaming devices in your house. Samsung, Google Chromecast, ATV, LG etc. Roku is by far the worst.
This was shitty, but the giants are worse than the smaller companies. Roku works fine and ad-free if you block the ad/tracking domains. Try separating the ads/tracking from the stuff you need on a Google device.
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Roku is the one that bricked peoples TVs unless they agreed to their new terms of service.
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Reasons I turn off WiFi on any TV I buy and use a streaming box
Any good recommendations?
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Any good recommendations?
Onn 4k box or Nvidia shield
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Try this brand https://www.sceptre.com/
Are they actually any good though? I was looking at a 1440p Sceptre monitor for my PC, and a lot of reviews mentioned huge bezels, dead pixels, and other issues...
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the largest problem with older TV's isnt the resolution. even on my 75" its hard to tell the difference between 4k and 1080p...
But HDR is amazing, it really blows me away each time a scene lights up!That's a fair point. HDR is quite nice, I use it a lot on my Pixel. The TV I mentioned does have dynamic brightness, but that's over the whole TV, not really equivalent to HDR.
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It does until it doesn't. Did you look at the OP?
I read the article before I saw it here (I follow ars). What they describe hasn’t been my experience. I press the power button on the Apple TV and it HDMI-CECs the TV power on and changes the input to the Apple TV HDMI eArc channel. They could change that behavior but it would break HDMI-CEC.
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I read the article before I saw it here (I follow ars). What they describe hasn’t been my experience. I press the power button on the Apple TV and it HDMI-CECs the TV power on and changes the input to the Apple TV HDMI eArc channel. They could change that behavior but it would break HDMI-CEC.
HDMI-CEC is controlled by the TV...
