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tl;dr never buy anything Roku, ever again. Got it.
Roku has patented a way to ensure I don't buy their junk.
Roku about to patent a way to make you buy their junk.
Just imagine they work out a deal with every consumer TV manufacturer to put this on everything.
I'll just buy a giant monitor then, it's better anyway.
If only they made 60"+ monitors, I'd do the same. But since those don't really exist, the options are:
I'm going to try out the first, but allow certain accesses (Netflix and Disney+). If that works, I may not need to worry about the rest of the list.
Yeah... I've been evaluating moving to Plex or Jellyfin.
Kinda getting done with a lot of this smart stuff. The Monopolies are flexing and I don't enjoy it.
Just do it. I ripped our DVDs and put them on my NAS with minidlna configured, and I can now stream my stuff directly to my TV through the "Photos and Videos" app. My other TV has a Raspberry Pi running Kodi, so if my next TV doesn't support dlna, I'll just do that.
Screw all of these companies and their predatory practices.
Jeff Geerling discusses having done the same, in one of his videos.
Fwiw, this was also on HN yesterday. Never tried it myself, though:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941232
Do it, it's great. The NVidia Shield is a great client for it but is getting more and more adds on the homescreen. The are alternative loaders without the add you can put on it.
You've got it the other way around. Roku sell their TVs at a loss. Buy one, use it as a dumb screen and help them go bankrupt faster.