Ugh. Roku was one of the platforms with fewer ads.

  • Roku will be adding more ads to the home screens of its devices and TVs in the near future.
  • The ads will be interactive and ‘shoppable’ and will cover a range of industries, including restaurants and cars.
  • Roku already has a significant amount of ads on its home screen, and it is unclear if users will be able to change their preferences for the new ads.
  • @[email protected]
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    185 months ago

    How are you going to self-host streaming hardware? A HTPC for every TV in the house along with a mouse and keyboard?

    • @grue
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      135 months ago

      I was already thinking of upgrading my old Roku to a $20 Onn (Walmart brand) Google TV box (which I’m told is hackable), but this will only accelerate that decision.

    • 🗑️😸
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      75 months ago

      Small SBCs and keyboard/remote combos. That’s what we do.

    • bigb
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      45 months ago

      Use Android TV with an alternate launcher like FLaunchee

    • lemmyvore
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      5 months ago

      No need for HTPC, just a small USB device with HDMI output and DLNA support. You use your phone as a DLNA controller, a server running Jellyfin as DLNA provider, and the device attached to the TV as DLNA renderer. And sometimes TVs have DLNA support built-in (my Toshiba does).

      On Android there’s an amazing app called BubbleUPnP that can source media from a wide variety of places, make playlists, and cast to DLNA devices as well as proprietary protocols like Chromecast.

      • @Blue_Morpho
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        25 months ago

        It works but it isn’t family friendly.

        • lemmyvore
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          25 months ago

          Jellyfin supports DLNA too, if you have a DLNA rendering device on the network it will just appear in the cast menu. Or if you want something that works with a remote directly on the TV you can install Kodi. There’s really no point nowadays in getting tied up into proprietary stuff.