Fox says the combined company will be the third largest in US television.

“Today, we take the next step: bringing together the most valuable live content portfolio in video consumption with the preeminent streaming platform through which America watches it.”

Fox News 24/7 even if you don’t want to watch it

    • userse31 [it/its, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      10 days ago

      I will give them credit for forcing a universal set of IR blaster codes.

      Someone threw a Roku TV out along with the remote. My grandparents also have a Roku TV and wanted a spare remote. They now have a spare remote.

      Fricken amazing tbh.

      • supdawg813 [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        10 days ago

        I inherited a 2000s-2010ish? era flat screen that was missing its remote, plus the built in power button was on its way out, but I happened upon a remote from the very same (possibly now defunct) brand in a thrift store in the same week the power button stopped working so uh I think this 36 inch 720p tv was destined to live out the rest of its days on my wall and who am I to deny fate

    • TommyCatkins [none/use any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      I thought that too until my boss gave me his old Samsung Smart TV, and it’s UI is the worst thing I have ever used, and the app support is garbage. Now a days I just have my desktop plugged into the TV for most things, but it couldn’t do that for awhile and I regretted giving my Roku TV to my ex immediately.

        • TommyCatkins [none/use any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          I haven’t been able to afford a new computer for a few years. A friend gave me a semi-fucked up old gaming rig that I have been trying to nurse back to health. It’s running Windows 10 still so my next free weekend I will figure out how to install Mint on it (is what I have been telling myself for the past 4 months)

          • supdawg813 [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            9 days ago

            Fair enough. Mine is secondhand off ebay, far from “new computer” expensive, but I get having to make-do for things you don’t really need.

            I recently installed mint myself! I have it set up to dual-boot with windows.

            It’s been relatively pain-free and the OS itself is great! but I fucked up not partitioning enough space for my home directory (thinking I’d store most things on a separate drive or share with my windows partition until I was ready to fully jump to linux - this was very dumb of me). The fix has been annoying enough (my installation media won’t run anymore so I either have to fix the media or find a way to partition a drive while it is in use) that I have just defaulted to using Windows most of the time.

            I also had some windows-mirrored drives that I just decided to split for the time being until I find a way to re-mirror them without accidentally torching my data, or I at least have it backed up somewhere first.

            Techno-babble aside, the install itself is easy as long as you don’t try to do anything complicated like I did. If you do decide to dual-boot despite this warning, just make sure you partition ample space for all of your applications and data. Otherwise you should be just fine and tbh I wish I’d done it sooner (and better lol).

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    10 days ago

    as much as good sux, at least (so far) the android streaming devices let us use custom launchers and block updates. i use a shieldtv and put some simple launcher on it so my streaming box just has the apps i want and no commercials/promotions going on my homepage/at launch. just the apps i want and some basic status info.

    i know roku is what a lot of people got into streaming use, but it seems kinda duplo to me. probably a smart move by fox to snag that demographic and hijack their box.

  • Mels@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    13·
    10 days ago

    Wouldn’t be surprised if MeansTV or some other such programs/apps are removed from Roku after this ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      9 days ago

      This the seizure of CBS/Paramount, then that seizing WB/Discovery, there seems to be a strong consolidation of the media under explicitly reactionary control within the past couple years. I do think this is as a result of a panic leading from not successfully controlling the narrative on the zionist genocide and people seeing the truth. It’s no longer seen as viable to take the soft, kind masked liberal route of talking about norms and civility and human rights because zionism (and US empire broadly) isn’t defensible from that standpoint, its pretexts for that defense have crumbled so badly they can’t ever be put together again. So what are they and empire to do? Simple. Take off the mask. Say we support them, yes they murder [string of slurs] but they deserve it because we’re superior and they’re inferior. Whip up domestic fear over immigrants and brown people, whip up the fumes of fascism. Blast the populace with hate filled propaganda. Dump the Obama type liberal messaging and embrace the Trump messaging of crude reactionary hate and violence.

      Some people will be turned off but a lot of Americans are frankly empty vessels into which the TV or internet pours their values and thoughts and beliefs from afar and will become more openly ravingly reactionary as a result of this.

  • nothingcorporate@lemmy.todayEnglish
    8·
    9 days ago

    If you own a Roku (or any smart TV) I highly recommend never connecting it to WiFi, and spending $100 to buy a used HP prodesk or dell optiplex on eBay, and having full internet access that YOU control.