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A great solution is just to stop buying from Amazon. Like, anything.
Chances are you did survive before Amazon was a thing. It’s possible.
I gave them 1 star and left a bad review for each of the fire tvs...they called me about the revie and then did nothing...buy a roku and throw out your $800 fire tv...it is worth it to take the loss for your own sanity
I recently bought a Roku and was surprised to find they force ads on their home screen. It's obviously not as terrible as a fullscreen ad but its still very annoying.
Roku also does not work well with Crunchyroll at all.
You can't get any dubs, and if you get subtitles - they only seem to be in the language the show is. E. G. Japanese subtitles only for Japanese Audio.
It's so dumb that neither Crunchyroll nor Roku will budge.
If you don't care about anime. Roku is better than the alternatives.
What do you mean they won't budge? Is this a conscious decision they're both making to spite one another?
Roku controls Subtitles/Language as a system level which means Crunchyroll can't fix it. Other systems allow the language/subtitles to be within respective apps.
Roku won't budge that subtitles must match language spoken and that each content should be in its primary language (Japanese).
Crunchyroll is "fixing" the issue by creating duplicate seasons - one for each language - but that is a very slow process and it only fixes the dub
Once again I'm reminded that piracy offers a better user experience than the paid options.
It does. But it's difficult to obtain 1000+ episodes of One Piece.
It's actually really easy.
Netflix doesn't use Roku's system level language / subtitle settings so I assume there's a way around it for other apps as well.
Yeah, there's definitely foreign language English subtitled content on Netflix that can be watched on Roku. I don't think apps are required to use the Roku system subtitles. I'm more inclined to think Crunchyroll just isn't supporting their Roku app properly.
what? i can't speak specifically to crunchyroll (not willing to pay for it), but i watch a lot of movies in languages other than english with english subtitles on roku.
if roku is insisting on this (?), they aren't insisting on it for other services like hbo.
The Roku does nothing at all better than the Nvidia Shield. Roku also has giant ads you can't get rid of. They recently blocked the few workarounds people found.
Honestly, you could just flash the fire stick. That might be the cheapest and most effective option.
The Nvidia Shield is $200. You might as well buy a used laptop, a nuc, or an old desktop at that point.
It also already had End Of Life for one of its key features - Game Streaming. So I am convinced it will be supported for much longer.
Roku has done occasional full screen ads too.
Wait, what? A Roku has more ads than a fire TV. 1/3 of the screen is always an ad. For new releases they'll sell the entire screen as an ad. ( Disney's Seeing Red was a full screen splash ad on my Roku.)
OK open to any other options and I mean any....there has got to be someone who can wite hacks to fix issues like this...they are doing it for chrome?
Roku is more closed than Amazon fire. I've read about rooted Fires.
Apple TV seems the least intrusive right now but I've never used one personally.
I've had an AppleTV for about five years+ now and have yet to see an ad placed on the main screen.
the ads on roku do not impact my experience, they go away as soon as i open anything.
*do not yet
Only a matter of time
i will give you that one. 😮💨
Lol the Roku has far more invasive ads. Get a Chromecast, or best yet, an Nvidia Shield.