[a look in the future] Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game
[a look in the future] Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game
Just what we all wanted, even more ads to deal with in our everyday life
Roku just announced they are going out of business the slow way.
57They’ll “go bankrupt” then come back as a purely business to business company, licensing their shitty ad tech to other companies.
18They announced that with the agree to arbitration or we'll brick your device you paid for shit.
18They surely have been making and oopsie after an oopsie ..
6If they weren't already heading towards the bin, there's no way they would seriously consider this. So, yeah. Enjoy your black screens where the ads "should" be in a few years when roku goes tits up.
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Ads ads and more ads. At this point, it seems everything is about ads. This is getting really annoying, really fast.
40Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
19Always has been
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I'm guessing Roku wasn't happy selling decent streaming sticks and a TV OS that more or less just works; they had to go down the enshittification path because Number Must Go Up.
Late-stage capitalism claims another victim, I guess.
35They were/are massively losing to Android, so they needed to find ways to compensate
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So never buyba roku tv. Got it.
Unfortunately it will move everywhere.
Good thing the wifi card in my tv shit out so i just plugged in my ps4 and use the hdmi link to conteol the ps4 with the tv remote.
31A lot of games no longer have the traditional pause. Pause goes to the menu. Sometimes the settings menu, sometimes the character gear menu or similar. Throwing an ad over menu items you need to access would piss me off even more than ads already do.
22Presumably they’d do it with some kind of idle timeout. No inputs for X number of minutes and you get an ad.
7And if it's anything like their streaming boxes, pressing a button on the controller will select the ad instead of resuming your game. Happens too frequently that I'll pause a show to eat or something, screensaver comes on and when I press a button on the remote it launches the roku channel instead of resuming the show I paused.
11Probably rather X number of seconds, like 30, but yeah
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I guess this 2010 Sony I have is gonna have to last forever
15When it gets impossible to find tvs that stay out of your way, I'm going to become obsessed with crt monitors. Learning how to maintain them to keep them running literally forever seems like a more achievable goal than doing that same thing with normal unshittified flat-screen tvs.
34k projectors are a wondrous thing, as well.
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Wouldn’t they need to forcibly ignore/remove HDCP for this to work? Isn’t that a DMCA violation?
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