Posted on 09/06/2023 1:14:46 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
“Roku is great, and I encourage everyone to use it.”
We appreciate ours. It’s how I get RAV and Freevee, and a bunch of other streaming apps.
They wanted to charge me per episode to watch “Father Knows Best.”
Pluto TV is destroying Roku.
The one thing I don’t like about Roku, is that it does not support a browser.
Not only do they stream great but they have wonderful, simple remote controls.
I’m a big fan of Roku. I don’t watch their channel though. I use it only to watch other streaming services.
Yeah, we should go back to spending hundreds of dollars on satellite or cable.
Or better yet, get rabbit ears.
*Rolls eyes*
Yeah.. the ads are bad. It’s like 3 minutes of ads for every 5 minutes of show :/
market saturation
“cut hundreds of positions in its workforce and slow down its hiring process in an effort to boost profits”
Is this a genuine case of being overstaffed - or the usual shell game where the savings are realized now while the cost of understaffing doesn’t become apparent until after the current fiscal quarter?
And are they laying off the empty suits with fancy titles whose only job is to throw buzzwords at each other? Or the people who actually make the goods and provide the services?
It’s no different on DirecTV. Just depends on the show. Record, and zip through the ads.
I love both services.
When we moved into our new house, the prior owners left a few TVs. One is a Samsung TV Plus and it has a lot of streaming shows. Not real fancy for recording, etc., but we use it often when in that room.
I happened to walk by the televisions in Walmart the other day. Only one of out of 20 or so bad Roku. They were all AppleKrap or GoogleKrap. We like our Roku but I guess they are losing out.
The Return of Blockbuster Video!
“onetarily speaking, US video disc sales amounted to $3.29 billion in 2019, $2.45 billion in 2020 and $1.97 billion in 2021. The first quarter of 2022 saw this drop another 19 per cent. Plot these figures on a graph and you can see where this might be headed.”
https://www.whathifi.com/news/dvd-and-blu-ray-sales-continue-to-nosedive
The streaming services, from Commiezon to YouTube, only carry a show for a limited time. In about a year it will vanish to be replaced by some other show that they will also carry for a limited time.
Doubt that but people are downloading the media and storing it because Solid State Drives are cheap, light, reliable and can store a bunch of information.
Right now they are putting years worth of magazines on thumb drives where you used to have a big box of disks.
“Do you think that might have been because stores were not open for people to buy?”
I think most stores were open in 2021 and 2022.
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