I don't own any Roku stuff, but should be interesting to see what happens to the Roku end of things. The acquisition will be completed in the first half of 2027.
FOX to buy Roku for $22 Biliion
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Heavy Roku household. Will be watching this semi closely.
I think it’s just the most widely accepted. Everybody has an app for it. I mainly have them because Xfinity has their app on it and I buy a Roku for $30 and I don’t have to pay for a cable box. Roku has its own channel also that is free streaming with commercials.
The add-ons like roku or standalone Google TV are offen lot less laggy than the smart TVs after the tvs get a few years of bloat, and can be replaced for cheap vs the cost of a whole tv
TVs generally don't have the processing power of a separate unit, so they run slower and glitch more often. It's also easier to replace a streaming unit than an entire TV when it gets too slow.
A "smart TV" is about the lowest item on my check list when I'm TV shopping. Software specific to the brand of TV, stuff gets outdated in a few years, integrated with an already too big remote, apps come and go.
I have three Roku's and have had two of them for a very long time. They still work excellent. Give me a quality TV monitor and some HDMI ports....I'll take it from there.
This. I have smart TVs and still buy roku for them. You can usually get them cheap if you look for sales. TV apps suck even on good TVs.
Our household originally standardized on Fire, probably due to a prime day sale. But my god, do those things bog down and become so slow you can't use them.
We bought one roku to try it, and what a night and day difference. Switched all non-smart TVs over to roku, and "securely disposed" of our fire sticks.
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I like the interface for google tv, but their decisions for hardware are odd, only offering the google tv streamer at $80 these days. Don't particularly love the minimalist remote either, give me something with some more buttons and a little substance to it.
I like Google TV too. Check out the Walmart Onn brand ones. They are legit.
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We have a Hisense TV with “AndroidTV” (it’s old) and it was a miserable experience using it on day 1. Our cheap-ish Roku also aged fairly quickly, so we splurged for an AppleTV and I’ve been very happy with it.
