Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands

Re:Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made an... by rurp on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:12PM (#26948217)

I have both a Roku and a Chromecast and the Roku works _much_ better. The Chromecast used to be fine, but a few years ago they refactored it in the Home app and now it constantly needs to be reconnected to the wifi. That would be annoying enough but the setup process also fails regularly. No other device in my house has this problem.

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Re:Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made an... by latortuga on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:47PM (#26948643)

I have used:

- a Roku - the newest "Chromecast with Google TV" - old style chromecasts - an "smart TV" with Android TV - A "smart TV" from visio

The worst by far are the smart TVs. The old chromecast is next because there's no UI outside my phone, but I always have my phone so it's not that bad. Next is the Roku and finally, top marks for the CCGTV. It's super fast and responsive and I love it.

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Re:Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made an... by mastazi on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:18PM (#26951118)

My experience with the Chromecast with Google TV is that many apps that are available on other platforms are missing on Google TV / Android TV - one example would be NHK World (the English language service from the Japanese NHK TV) and another example is Flo Sports (a sports streaming app). For this reason I'm thinking of getting a Fire TV or an Apple TV where those missing apps are available.

When I purchased the Google TV device I was under the impression that Android TV was one of the major platform on the market, but later I found out that in terms of apps choice, it's not the best.

Also, it's puzzling that some apps are available for Amazon's Fire TV but not for Google TV / Android TV - both are based on Android so I thought it would be very easy to make an app available to both platforms - maybe there are some technical aspects that I'm missing.

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Re:Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made an... by thebean11 on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:43PM (#26951339)

CCGTV is so, so buggy. I have to restart it constantly because: - Sound won't play - Subtitles stop working - Some app specific issue (there's no way to kill an app that I know of)

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Re:Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made an... by NoPicklez on Monday April 26, 2021 @09:24PM (#26950644)

That's strange because we have two Chromecasts in our house that have been working no differently for the last 4 years. No need to reconnect it to the WiFi constantly.

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Re:Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made an... by limeblack on Monday April 26, 2021 @07:56PM (#26949879)

The Chromebook sticks used to work really well until they to my knowledge were discontinued.[1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/CHROMEBIT-Stick-Desktop-RockChip-3288...

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Re:Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made an... by Severian on Monday April 26, 2021 @06:03PM (#26948840)

Same with my old school Chromecast audio, it needs to be rebooted constantly as it too somehow stops connecting to wifi. I used to use it with a toslink cable and got really good sound out of it using a DLNA server from my storage.

Now I just use my TV (as a monitor) optical out since it is connected via ethernet. I can still use DLNA on it as well to play my music.

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