We got canceled! (Like in the old ratings sense not the new MeToo sense.) But there’s a nice little community over there now; we’re climbing the Film and TV charts!
I see why FOX felt enough squeeze-down to do this. But Roku? What's their excuse? Didn't sell enough access sticks, channels and TV's? In any case, it's another horrible "vertical integration" that shafts both corporations' customers. Welcome to the cord cutters' West World. IOW, very scary. Please, someone, give me back my boring old cable. Lots of channels, minus the mental bait & switch crises, and sudden game changes to make me pull my hair out, every few months. Please, Gods of TV Land, give me back relative simplicity before I die. I'm too old and dumb for Smart TV.
Sonny, thanks for clarifying the horror that is to come. I have a Roku set, through which I access a variety of streaming services. I hope I don't have to change equipment but will to avoid supporting Fox News, even indirectly. Fox Sports is good, to be fair, but I guess you have to take the evil twin with it? Please include in the future advice to we who, in TV as in politics, have been made homeless.
I'm gonna have to switch to an apple tv box. I've heard the experience is much better, but I'm gonna miss being able to plug in my beloved Sennheisers to the remote. It means one more thing i have to futz with Bluetooth for.
I use ROKU to access alot of the streamers I pay for. I could just as easily access those apps thru my Smart TV which in fact has more apps than ROKU including this one- Substack.
I could tell Fox that no matter what they do with the ROKU home page, I will not be subscribing to Fox One.
Prior to this Fox announcement, I was planning on purchasing a Roku Ultimate, a kick in the pants against Apple's capitulation to Trump. Well, that's not going to happen now. Supposedly there's a new Apple TV coming, so that's probably the way to go.
Tubi, and I cringe to admit it, is my favorite FAST. There are lots of movies you can't find elsewhere and, the commercials are not overbearing, recalling life watching TV in the 80s. What is says about me that 90% of the commercials are for Liberty Mutual Insurance, I don't know. I don't hate the Emu, so it's a not bad trade.
Me too. I would normally donate this kind of thing to Goodwill, but how can I do this in good conscience, right? The choices here are just bad: landfill vs the Salvation Army. For a TV I've owned less than a year FGS! But I don't trust the electronics recyclers in my city. Help!
I’m curious how Fox is going to do trying to a manage Roku the hardware manufacturer (and software developer). All the TV’s in our house use the Roku OS and I have a Roku box for when I travel. I even have some of their speakers. All were relatively cheap and work great for the money. That valuable real estate of the home screen will lose value quickly if they can’t maintain and grow the quality of the hardware to keep pace with competitors.
I don’t hate Fox enough to specifically boycott Roku over this, but I will take a serious look at competitors if I notice a relative drop in quality in the hardware or OS. I’m sure Fox will try to keep Roku’s key talent and managers, but still, there is a lot to Roku way outside Fox’s core competencies. It’s fighting for retail space at big box stores and managing online sales channels and product R&D. I don’t think they have ever done any of those sorts of things in the past. It also means fighting against the likes of Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet.
Unfortunately, dumb TVs are nearly impossible to find any more. And I do not understand why, as it is a lot cheaper to replace a streaming device then to replace an entire television set.
I’m a long time Roku user, it’s a great simple interface with a simple remote. Just inherited a Samsung TV, the Samsung interface and remote is awful. I’m considering getting a Roku stick to escape the hell of Samsung. Unfortunately for Fox, I won’t be subscribing to any Fox streaming channels.
Really, Tubi has terrible movies? I find loads of great monster-, vampire-, and other B movies on Tubi. I much prefer these to the content streaming on most of the other services.
I can’t believe across the movie aisle is not part of The Bulwark membership
We got canceled! (Like in the old ratings sense not the new MeToo sense.) But there’s a nice little community over there now; we’re climbing the Film and TV charts!
I see why FOX felt enough squeeze-down to do this. But Roku? What's their excuse? Didn't sell enough access sticks, channels and TV's? In any case, it's another horrible "vertical integration" that shafts both corporations' customers. Welcome to the cord cutters' West World. IOW, very scary. Please, someone, give me back my boring old cable. Lots of channels, minus the mental bait & switch crises, and sudden game changes to make me pull my hair out, every few months. Please, Gods of TV Land, give me back relative simplicity before I die. I'm too old and dumb for Smart TV.
Sonny, thanks for clarifying the horror that is to come. I have a Roku set, through which I access a variety of streaming services. I hope I don't have to change equipment but will to avoid supporting Fox News, even indirectly. Fox Sports is good, to be fair, but I guess you have to take the evil twin with it? Please include in the future advice to we who, in TV as in politics, have been made homeless.
I'm gonna have to switch to an apple tv box. I've heard the experience is much better, but I'm gonna miss being able to plug in my beloved Sennheisers to the remote. It means one more thing i have to futz with Bluetooth for.
Fox may need Roku, but the rest of us don’t need Fox owning Roku!
I use ROKU to access alot of the streamers I pay for. I could just as easily access those apps thru my Smart TV which in fact has more apps than ROKU including this one- Substack.
I could tell Fox that no matter what they do with the ROKU home page, I will not be subscribing to Fox One.
Prior to this Fox announcement, I was planning on purchasing a Roku Ultimate, a kick in the pants against Apple's capitulation to Trump. Well, that's not going to happen now. Supposedly there's a new Apple TV coming, so that's probably the way to go.
Tubi, and I cringe to admit it, is my favorite FAST. There are lots of movies you can't find elsewhere and, the commercials are not overbearing, recalling life watching TV in the 80s. What is says about me that 90% of the commercials are for Liberty Mutual Insurance, I don't know. I don't hate the Emu, so it's a not bad trade.
I stayed at a Marriott Fairfield Inn recently that had dropped the cable bundle and switched to Roku. I wonder if all of Marriott will do that.
Is there a data play in there at all as well?
Going to get rid of my Roku TV’s
Me too. I would normally donate this kind of thing to Goodwill, but how can I do this in good conscience, right? The choices here are just bad: landfill vs the Salvation Army. For a TV I've owned less than a year FGS! But I don't trust the electronics recyclers in my city. Help!
I’m curious how Fox is going to do trying to a manage Roku the hardware manufacturer (and software developer). All the TV’s in our house use the Roku OS and I have a Roku box for when I travel. I even have some of their speakers. All were relatively cheap and work great for the money. That valuable real estate of the home screen will lose value quickly if they can’t maintain and grow the quality of the hardware to keep pace with competitors.
I don’t hate Fox enough to specifically boycott Roku over this, but I will take a serious look at competitors if I notice a relative drop in quality in the hardware or OS. I’m sure Fox will try to keep Roku’s key talent and managers, but still, there is a lot to Roku way outside Fox’s core competencies. It’s fighting for retail space at big box stores and managing online sales channels and product R&D. I don’t think they have ever done any of those sorts of things in the past. It also means fighting against the likes of Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet.
Opinions on Google TV as a replacement launchpad for Roku?
I simply have an aversion to in-TV OSes. I want my screen to be a dumb screen!
Unfortunately, dumb TVs are nearly impossible to find any more. And I do not understand why, as it is a lot cheaper to replace a streaming device then to replace an entire television set.
I’m a long time Roku user, it’s a great simple interface with a simple remote. Just inherited a Samsung TV, the Samsung interface and remote is awful. I’m considering getting a Roku stick to escape the hell of Samsung. Unfortunately for Fox, I won’t be subscribing to any Fox streaming channels.
Time to find a replacement for Roku. I don’t want fox to have access to my television .
Really, Tubi has terrible movies? I find loads of great monster-, vampire-, and other B movies on Tubi. I much prefer these to the content streaming on most of the other services.
(I think that's what he meant by terrible...)
Yeah I meant it as a descriptive not a pejorative, haha.
Cable was better than this.