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“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can fix that in 3 seconds with a piece of electrical tape.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I suppose. I don’t use the rock UI, it goes straight into the Apple TV when powered on so I don’t really care that much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You using an OTA tuner with some HD Homerun app or anything? Boooo needing Roku’s interface for antenna TV (on Roku smart TVs) cuz Apple didn’t solve for that (why would they I guess, $treamers as they are)

It didn’t look like there was any fantastic super easy OTA solution for Apple TV. Fine for us but maybe not the elderly. IDK

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It does until it doesn't. Did you look at the OP?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I read the article before I saw it here (I follow ars). What they describe hasn’t been my experience. I press the power button on the Apple TV and it HDMI-CECs the TV power on and changes the input to the Apple TV HDMI eArc channel. They could change that behavior but it would break HDMI-CEC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

HDMI-CEC is controlled by the TV...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

HDMI-CEC is a communication standard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, I am aware. The device sends a signal to turn the TV on and switch the input. There's nothing preventing the TV from refusing to immediately comply.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That’s why I said it would break CEC. They could, but it s not a good idea.