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Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen (www.techradar.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Ugh. Roku was one of the platforms with fewer ads.

  • Roku will be adding more ads to the home screens of its devices and TVs in the near future.
  • The ads will be interactive and 'shoppable' and will cover a range of industries, including restaurants and cars.
  • Roku already has a significant amount of ads on its home screen, and it is unclear if users will be able to change their preferences for the new ads.
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (5 children)

How are you going to self-host streaming hardware? A HTPC for every TV in the house along with a mouse and keyboard?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I was already thinking of upgrading my old Roku to a $20 Onn (Walmart brand) Google TV box (which I'm told is hackable), but this will only accelerate that decision.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I have one of these on every TV in my house and they're great!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

yes they are. you can put lineage and degoogle these

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Small SBCs and keyboard/remote combos. That's what we do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Use Android TV with an alternate launcher like FLaunchee

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yes I have a thinclient attached to my TV running linux mint

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No need for HTPC, just a small USB device with HDMI output and DLNA support. You use your phone as a DLNA controller, a server running Jellyfin as DLNA provider, and the device attached to the TV as DLNA renderer. And sometimes TVs have DLNA support built-in (my Toshiba does).

On Android there's an amazing app called BubbleUPnP that can source media from a wide variety of places, make playlists, and cast to DLNA devices as well as proprietary protocols like Chromecast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It works but it isn't family friendly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Jellyfin supports DLNA too, if you have a DLNA rendering device on the network it will just appear in the cast menu. Or if you want something that works with a remote directly on the TV you can install Kodi. There's really no point nowadays in getting tied up into proprietary stuff.