Roku UI update

[comfortably_numb]

There is indeed a "secret menu," accessible
by following Juan 's steps. However I do not see "Cycle Scrollable ads."

 

[Juan]

View: https://youtu.be/vxDOu7unNX8?is=zv5Igaj4AzQZHZ15

There is indeed a "secret menu," accessible
by following Juan 's steps. However I do not see "Cycle Scrollable ads."

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Neither did I...but if you cycle home screen banner server to demo 3..you can get a huge black screen instead of an ad

 

[comfortably_numb]

View: https://youtu.be/vxDOu7unNX8?is=zv5Igaj4AzQZHZ15


Neither did I...but if you cycle home screen banner server to demo 3..you can get a huge black screen instead of an ad

I set it to Demo 3 and I still have an ad

 

[osu1991]

There is indeed a "secret menu," accessible
by following Juan 's steps. However I do not see "Cycle Scrollable ads."

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It was removed 3-4 months ago

 

[ncted]

I only recently started using Roku again recently, but I feel like there has been an unavoidable ad on the home screen for a very long time. Maybe you could turn it off, but I failed to previously?

 

[primestar31]

It was removed 3-4 months ago

Yep, not so long after the first posts came out about the "secret screen" where you could turn it off. Loose lips sink ships...

 

[comfortably_numb]

Just more corporate fascism IMO. I pay for a "dumb" device to watch streaming services, and they shove ads down my throat. I didn't ask for the ads. I didn't pay to see ads on my device.

 

[ncted]

FYI: Roku Announces Major Changes Are Again Coming To The Roku Home Screen | Cord Cutters News

 

[comfortably_numb]

I wish they would leave it alone. They are grinding Roku into the ground. Users do not want this sh*t.

 

[Jimbo]

For this reason I have been watching my app's using my Sony TV instead. It is actually easier to switch from the TV/app's and Dish H3 than using the Roku. Plus for some reason my TV would switch to Roku when I was changing channels on my H3. My Roku is unplugged now.

I pretty much have that same type of thing going on, when I have the Roku plugged in, I want to turn the TV on and choose between my Sony's Home screen and if I want the Roku to show up, I can click on it.
However, currently, it pretty much goes to the Roku automatically .... probably the way its designed, which is good if you plan to use Just the Roku ...

I prefer using the Apps on the Sony as you've mentioned, its easier to use and laid out much better (IMO) so if theres something that I can't get on the Sony TV App wise, I'll go to the Roku ...

Seeing the Roku continues to Open first and won't let me back to my Sony Home screen, I have disconnected my Roku .

 

[dishstaller]

I wish they would leave it alone

You can ask my Wife...I say this several times a week. Nobody will leave anything alone.

Years ago there was an internet company named Starband, to my knowledge they were the first satellite internet company that sold through dealers to the public. They hired a new person to head the retailer division. She changed all kinds of stuff (didn't make it better....just changed it for the glorious sake of change) including insisting that we change all of our Starband email passwords....the message on the Starband dealer page informed us that all of our previous email passwords had been cancelled and a new temporary one had been emailed to us via our Starband email acct. Think about that for a moment and you'll get it.

 

[ncted]

I wish they would leave it alone. They are grinding Roku into the ground. Users do not want this sh*t.

But how can they make it look like they are accomplishing something if they never make any changes?

 

[comfortably_numb]

But how can they make it look like they are accomplishing something if they never make any changes?

I know you're being facetious, and I think the same thing about Microsoft every week when they fiddle with something in Office. I guess the bottom line is, keeping the customer happy isn't the top priority for these companies anymore.

 

[dishstaller]

I guess the bottom line is, keeping the customer happy isn't the top priority for these companies anymore.

Believe it or not.....the upper folks firmly believe they ARE making customers happy. The underlings blatantly lie to them and don't allow any outside information to creep in. I've seen and experienced this myself.

 

[ncted]

I know you're being facetious, and I think the same thing about Microsoft every week when they fiddle with something in Office. I guess the bottom line is, keeping the customer happy isn't the top priority for these companies anymore.

It probably is if you ask anyone at a given company. Of course customer satisfaction is important, but that becomes secondary to individual advancement pretty quick. Then it quickly becomes a political struggle to decide who's idea to monetize something or other will get the development resources to make it happen, whether the customers will like it or not.

 

[ncted]

Believe it or not.....the upper folks firmly believe they ARE making customers happy. The underlings blatantly lie to them and don't allow any outside information to creep in. I've seen and experienced this myself.

I used to work at an online news company. Whenever we would put out a new website design after many months of internal reviews, focus groups, public previews to get feedback, etc. everyone would be positive that our readers would love the new design. Without fail, the majority hated it every time, mostly just because it was different, but often because it was actually harder to navigate than it used to be. Eventually, we stopped spending all the time and money trying to figure out what people would like better and just focused on what would make pages load faster and deliver the most ad revenue because that was important to save the company from bankruptcy (which turned out to be inevitable in the end).