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Simplest thing is to just buy Roku TV's. The Roku OS is fantastic and neutral as far as the various content provider services go. It's got everything and the phone remote controls are great.

Usually very well priced via Sam's Club too. It's the only thing I'll buy now.




> The Roku OS is fantastic and neutral as far as the various content provider services go.

I originally like Roku, because they used to be a neutral hardware provider, but that's not the case these days. Their OS is becoming more full of ads and are really trying to push their own content. And now nearly every time I see the Roku in the news is that they don't have new provider or that they're thinking of kicking off a provider because they're trying to get a cut of revenues.


Roku has more built-in tracking than anything you can possibly connect to your TV.


used to be pro roku, have several. updated its internal software started forcing ads on me.

in the junk bin they went. I do 99% of my content consuming via xbox apps at this point. Youtube (red subscriber) self hosted Plex, and occasional Amazon TV content (really only for the expanse, but now that thats over... not sure i need it)




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