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Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.

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[–] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Roku is the worst thing to happen to TVs since motion smoothing.

[–] Alienmonkey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

News to me, what Roku do?

I mean the sticks and boxes, not the TV's themselves, I get those suck.

[–] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand the question. I'm reacting to this story, what the company is doing, without distinction between the branded TVs and peripheral devices.

[–] Alienmonkey@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

I get ads suck, and I was pissed and confused when I received one the other day on my Roku.

I just didn't know if there was some other reason that they were the worst thing that happened to TV that I missed.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You ever wonder why many of Rokus remotes don't come with a mute button? Weird huh... Maybe just an especially expensive button, huh?

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Huh...I must have gotten lucky because all of mine have a mute button...

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago

It's a problem. Also reports of some reviews that do have mute buttons, but the functionality gets selectively disabled - I.e. on the YouTube app, pressing mute will pause an ad, but not mute. The point is to force you to complete watching ads.