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Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV (9to5google.com)
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[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Roku controls Subtitles/Language as a system level which means Crunchyroll can't fix it. Other systems allow the language/subtitles to be within respective apps.

Roku won't budge that subtitles must match language spoken and that each content should be in its primary language (Japanese).

Crunchyroll is "fixing" the issue by creating duplicate seasons - one for each language - but that is a very slow process and it only fixes the dub

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Once again I'm reminded that piracy offers a better user experience than the paid options.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It does. But it's difficult to obtain 1000+ episodes of One Piece.

[–] Lemonstealingwhore@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

It's actually really easy.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Netflix doesn't use Roku's system level language / subtitle settings so I assume there's a way around it for other apps as well.

[–] atocci@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, there's definitely foreign language English subtitled content on Netflix that can be watched on Roku. I don't think apps are required to use the Roku system subtitles. I'm more inclined to think Crunchyroll just isn't supporting their Roku app properly.

[–] braxy29@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

what? i can't speak specifically to crunchyroll (not willing to pay for it), but i watch a lot of movies in languages other than english with english subtitles on roku.

if roku is insisting on this (?), they aren't insisting on it for other services like hbo.