Originally Posted by VHS? (Post 14272491)

After years of buying all Samsung TVs and also using Amazon Fire Sticks, I finally bought into Roku. Last year I bought a Hisense TV with Roku for my bedroom (mainly due to price as I never used Roku) and I am now convinced that's the better system.
The Samsung Smart Hub it's just too slow and I do not like that HBO Max is pre-installed on the thing and it's the biggest app and I can't remove it and it doesn't work, I have to use the fire stick.
Now the issue I have with the Amazon Fire stick is that it too starts to lag and it's got too much flash going on. No menu on any app from the stick is as snappy as Roku. For me, the design of Roku is just simple and it has stayed that way and it's just easy. There's no flash to it whatsoever, it just is what it is and it works and it works really good.
From this point on every TV I buy is going to be the Roku system.

Originally Posted by DJariya (Post 14300123)

So I've had the Roku sound bar since I got it on sale last November. So 8 months in, I'm not really happy with it. The sound bar element works most of the time. But, it is buggy as hell as a streaming device. Audio drops out every now and then and also playback sometimes stutters. I'm tempted to just take this out and go back to my previous Roku or upgrade to just the newest Roku device. The bugs are so annoying. Just now I was trying to play Jack Ryan's 4th episode and had to pause it for a 2nd. When I hit play, the audio dropped out completely and playback started and stuttered. And sometimes when I switch to live TV on DirecTV, the audio does not work at all on the sound bar.

does anyone here own one and have had any troubles?

Originally Posted by DJariya (Post 14300123)

So I've had the Roku sound bar since I got it on sale last November. So 8 months in, I'm not really happy with it. The sound bar element works most of the time. But, it is buggy as hell as a streaming device. Audio drops out every now and then and also playback sometimes stutters. I'm tempted to just take this out and go back to my previous Roku or upgrade to just the newest Roku device. The bugs are so annoying. Just now I was trying to play Jack Ryan's 4th episode and had to pause it for a 2nd. When I hit play, the audio dropped out completely and playback started and stuttered. And sometimes when I switch to live TV on DirecTV, the audio does not work at all on the sound bar.

does anyone here own one and have had any troubles?

Originally Posted by PhantomStranger (Post 14300192)

I don't trust ROKU's hardware, way too flaky for my tastes.

Originally Posted by Giantrobo (Post 14303529)

Did ROKU change their Menu? Now I have all the shows and films I've watched listed in the Menu offering me a quick way to return to them without having to click the actual the show or film's respective streamer app. I don't like this and I can't find a way to change it.

Originally Posted by lwhy? (Post 14303536)

That's weird. My Ultra LT and Roku stick are not doing that. They did add a search for movies, shows, and more search bar at the top that I don't like. You have to click past it get to the apps now...

Originally Posted by Giantrobo (Post 14303541)

Yeah they've always done the "Resume watching" type stuff on the Roku Channel app, which means it is clearly monitoring all my app usage.... but now that same thing is showing in the Menu. i.e. i just watch Star Trek;SNW on Paramount +, so now it show that I was watching it in the menu. Like I said, I don't like that one bit. :lol:

Originally Posted by lwhy? (Post 14303563)

Oh I don't use the Roku channel. I thought you were talking about the Roku device menu.

Originally Posted by Giantrobo (Post 14304198)

I am. I was just saying the channel all always did this but now its been added to the device menu. It's been placed at the top of the app list.

Originally Posted by DJariya (Post 14300123)

So I've had the Roku sound bar since I got it on sale last November. So 8 months in, I'm not really happy with it. The sound bar element works most of the time. But, it is buggy as hell as a streaming device. Audio drops out every now and then and also playback sometimes stutters. I'm tempted to just take this out and go back to my previous Roku or upgrade to just the newest Roku device. The bugs are so annoying. Just now I was trying to play Jack Ryan's 4th episode and had to pause it for a 2nd. When I hit play, the audio dropped out completely and playback started and stuttered. And sometimes when I switch to live TV on DirecTV, the audio does not work at all on the sound bar.

does anyone here own one and have had any troubles?

Originally Posted by lwhy? (Post 14304240)

Can you screenshot that? I'm not seeing it on any of my Rokus. What Roku device are you using?

Originally Posted by Giantrobo (Post 14304352)

The Ultra Model. I'll try when i get home.

Originally Posted by Jay G. (Post 14304368)

I found this article from last September describing this feature:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/12/ro...ching-feature/


That article notes its in the "What to Watch" tab on the left of the Roku menu, not in the default "Home" tab that list apps.

Maybe a new service signed up to the feature, and Giantrobo is just now seeing it?

Originally Posted by The Cow (Post 14304372)

I'm not seeing that on any of my Roku devices.

I think it would be annoying for me, but don't know until I see it. I also would like to see a picture of it.