I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now

Re:I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV... by setpatchaddress on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:03PM (#26418326)

Genuine question: what's better about the Netflix app? Haven't used Roku. Seems decent on Apple TV.

What really sucks on Apple TV is the YouTube app. It may be Google's single least competent publicly available software engineering.

edited to clarify question

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Re:I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV... by nawgz on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @08:27PM (#26418998)

> what's better about the Netflix app

I can use it with the same remote as I turn my TV on with.

In all honesty, these things all are just feature parity, they perform the exact same between the two devices, but I really feel like the UX of fast-forwarding, rewinding etc is completely MIA on Apple TV and therefore it isn't really superior to the native applications, despite the $200 price point

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Re:I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV... by nomel on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:36PM (#26419907)

> I can use it with the same remote as I turn my TV on with.

Any modern TV will let the connected turn it on and off with HDMI-CEC. For Apple TV, you just use the volume or whatever button to turn it on, then hold the home button and tap sleep to turn it off. Roku supports this, too.

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Re:I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV... by nawgz on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:10AM (#26420510)

Haha, sure, thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I hate using the Apple TV remote, so I’ll stick to the classic UX on my roku remote

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Re:I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV... by nickthegreek on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @08:32PM (#26419045)

I loathe the Apple TV remote. The Roku remote is my fav although I currently use a shield pro which has been great.

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Re:I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV... by robbiep on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @08:56PM (#26419213)

If you have an I-device use the remote on that. iPhone controlling Apple TV is delightful (even allows 1pass access to passwords for accounts)

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Re:I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV... by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:45PM (#26419953)

You've obviously never tried GMail in Firefox, though that's probably intentional.

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Re:I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV... by ipaddr on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:38AM (#26420996)

It makes gmail look bad not firefox. I've moved away from gmail based mainly around performance.

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