I have unplugged our roku's and just use PC's now. One of the last things that really pissed me off is when I was streaming some "live" content and they did a Picture-in-Picture thing, muted my content, played a 30 second add then went back to the stream and unmuted it. I already know they are tracking data and shit... I blocked most of that.
But that was it. Fuck them. Never again. Garbage product will be dead in 2 years.
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From the post:
>Roku is celebrating a milestone that says a lot about where entertainment is heading. For the third month in a row, people in the United States spent more time streaming on Roku-powered devices than they did watching traditional broadcast television. Nielsen’s latest data shows Roku-powered devices accounted for 21.4 percent of all TV viewing in July. Broadcast came in at 18.4 percent. That gap may not seem huge, but it marks a steady trend from May and June where streaming also came out ahead. Roku says its share of TV viewing is up 14 percent year-over-year, which suggests people are not just trying streaming, they’re sticking with it.
is traditional TV dead?
In one sense, yes: it's no longer a gatekeeper. That aspect has gone. You no longer need an FCC license, satellites or affiliates to broadcast content. A small camera and a pc is all you need.
