Re:Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made an...
by LightG on Monday April 26, 2021 @01:07PM
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I'll take your pitchfork and brandish it at least ...
>>This could simply mean Google is requiring chips with hardware VP9 support
Shouldn't we expect reasonable backward-compatibility?
Your second point seems valid.
To be honest though ... youtube is the weak link in most of my set ups. Can't access ad-based youtube via Sonos (and no, I won't pay for premium because of how I feel about Google right now), scrapes here with Roku, etc.
>>This could simply mean Google is requiring chips with hardware VP9 support
Shouldn't we expect reasonable backward-compatibility?
Your second point seems valid.
To be honest though ... youtube is the weak link in most of my set ups. Can't access ad-based youtube via Sonos (and no, I won't pay for premium because of how I feel about Google right now), scrapes here with Roku, etc.
Google is slowly becoming obsolete in my house.
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