we live in hell

I don’t even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they’re saying…hey do you want a worse experience?

    • Rognaut@lemmy.worldEnglish
      731·
      11 months ago

      I believe it’s Roku. That purple symbol in the bottom right is on the remote as well.

      Very budget so this doesn’t surprise me.

      • tonyn@lemmy.mlEnglish
        25·
        11 months ago

        Also beneath the purple asterisk is the words “Roku TV” in grey on the bezel

      • idunnololz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        Wtf I thought roku TV were one of the good ones. I use a Roku thing that you plug in and I haven’t seen this yet.

        • aeronmelon@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          The Roku box was one of the good ones… about ten years ago. Though maybe this is just a TV thing. TIL Roku makes actual screens.

          In the past few years especially, I’ve seen so many unshakable “good ones” go bad. Some, in the worst possible way.

    • AZERTY@feddit.nlEnglish
      37·
      11 months ago

      The little asterisk symbol on the screen is leading me to believe it’s a Roku.

          • linkinkampf19@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            11 months ago

            The amount of Roku stuff my PiHole blocks is asinine. I just recently added a blocklist for smart TVs and it ballooned the query counts like mad.

            +1 for PiHole. Worth the ~$40 for the Pi Zero W and accessories alone.

            • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
              10·
              11 months ago

              That’s because they retry failed connections until they can phone home again. They aren’t normally making tens of thousands of requests.

            • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              11 months ago

              I fucking hate my Roku Tv. One of my roku TV became unusable after software update. Can’t be rolled back. I’m just stuck with a perfectly fine screen and shit software. And yes even connecting another device via HDMI is an issue because the TV restarts randomly for “updates” while watching external sources.

              • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
                2·
                11 months ago

                Hrm, that’s a pretty good argument for buying a tv and leaving the built in smart features without internet access. Sorry about your issues.

                I’d there no way to factory reset it?

          • RandomPancake@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            You can, but don’t forget to also block other outbound DNS connections in your firewall. Lots of “smart” devices are hard coded to use 8.8.8.8 regardless of what DHCP says. Pihole won’t stop those, so you have to block it at the firewall.

        • yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          They put one too many ads on the home screen… then they made them larger…

          fuck em. they get nothing now.

          blocked their ad servers at the DNS level.

        • quo@feddit.ukEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          You can turn it off in the settings, and it’s not an ad it shows the same show for all channels that say they have it, no one paid for the banner.

        • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I have an old Roku Express or something similar and love it. It has an RF remote and a very responsive UI. But it is slowly becoming crappier with the infrequent updates.