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>renders your locked-down ad-ridden goyware stick obsolete

>>109075603
>no hdmi cec
>yeah honey, i'll start netflix in a momemt. Just let me bring the keyboard and mouse from downstairs

>>109075441
So I can freely stream any of my own content and pirated content to it?

Love to replace a functional, reliable, service that provides low latency video streams with a poorly optimized ad ridden hellscape of an OS running on the shittiest SoC known the man. I know better than to buy a Roku device even though I use streaming devices.

>>109075724
This is the only good thing we got out of this deal.

>>109075713
I could just buy one of those $2 chink remotes. It would get the job done. Netflix? Lmao. No.

>>109075603
you still need a set top box to interface with plex or jellyfin or whatever -- unless you want to be clicking buttons or typing commands like a retard.

>>109075744
>he doesn't know that this device is perfectly capable of interfacing with either and making a remote work with it is dead simple

This is /g/ not /consumerretard/

>>109075603
>thinkcentre
you are just as stupid as the retard buying a roku stick.
Apple TV box or an Android Box with Plex is all you need.

>>109075713
>Netflix
>doesn't self host in 2026
ngmi

>>109075603
Based fpbp. Already attracted seething shills.

>>109075990
>unironically suggesting the iToddler device
lmao you are hopelessly fucking stupid haha I bet you have like 100 subscriptions to different services you worthless fucking corporate slave. As soon as they can come up with a way to charge you for breathing you'll be the first in line. Keep coming to this board we need punching bags like you.

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>>109076176
You might genuinely be a low iq retarded mouth breather if the word "Apple" filters you and drives you into an autistic meltdown.
Apple, in addition to Android and Plex have nothing to do with subscriptions. You are hallucinating stuff in your head that never happened.

>>109076210
It's a shit product and you are retarded for suggesting it lmao. I could whip up something better with a $20 e-waste thin client. But you have the corporate cock so far down your throat for you "technology" is synonymous with "CONSUME PRODUCT" which is great because without paypigs like you the economy would collapse. Simply put you recommend the product that's restrictive and shitty in the same breath as the one where you can load any apk you want, against the one where you can choose the operating system and hardware you want installed on it, then you act like you're spouting wisdom. The only thing you're good for is pulling things off a Wal-Mart shelf. Everything you type is just as worthless as your existence. But it's great that you're here because I need reminders of my superiority.

There's only two reasons I'd choose a full fledged Android device over either something running CoreELEC or a HTPC setup on cheap hardware. Reason 1 is the Widevine CDM. Quite useful for pirating live streams if you know your way around it. Reason 2 is the setup in the living room for the family to use. But they're also using those streams too so it comes full circle. Android is pretty ass otherwise. Just because it can do everything doesn't mean it does all of those things better than anything else.

But a cuck device like some iToddler product? To me that's only useful as like a doorstop or something.

>>109076246
>>109076272
throw yourself out of a bridge samefag retard

>>109076309
>It's the same thing as an Android box with the same function
It's not lol.
>require M&KB
Yeah because you can't use a bluetooth remote or a RF remote with a USB adapter or something like FLIRC... Just going to stop here. There's like 20 years worth of knowledge on this subject and the only thing you know how to do is buy a premade product because you are technologically illiterate. Lmao I bet you posted this on your iPhone. That's why it took you so goddamned long. It's a waste of time talking to someone like you who can't use a computer. In b4 you tell me all about how you were first in line for the macbook neo and how you think it's going to help you pick up chicks in Starbucks. You fucking scrub.

>>109076057
>>109075713
And you wonder why you're single.

>>109076355
I'm married and my wife is perfectly happy watching entire seasons of shitty Korean dramas on Kodi from a USB drive. It's always people who have never seen a vagina IRL who tell you what women will or will not put up with. As long as I'm the one to set everything up she can figure out the rest. Anything more complicated than turning on the subtitles and I'm going to be asked to deal with it.

>109076329
i posted this from my PS Vita with Javascript turned off actually.

>>109076329
i posted this from my PS Vita with Javascript turned off actually.

Everyone who comes into tech spaces and preaches against the DIY ethos deserves a struggle session

>>109076355
but in not single. wtf? faggot folding his girly arms and responding scornfully

>>109075441
it’s sucks because there was no web browser, I regret my grandmother bringing a roku tv to me.

>>109076355
netflix doesn't get you women, retard

>>109075441
What the hell are you talking about retard? TV has been obsoleted by the internet since around the mid 2000s.

>heckin BASED I LOVE ad infested garbage that contributes to the insane costs of internet service so I can continue watching what's already on television anyway
>>109076355
>>109075713
>same copypasta replies from every other instance of the topic

>>109076369
precisely, its mostly middle class girls who pull that shit. the rest aren't financially retarded

>>109075441
Why is a television device called "Roku" here? Technology companies always come up with the dumbest and most unrelated names possibly for their products.

>bf turns tv on
>bf uses oem remote so little onn streaming device that I degooglecucked turns on
>goes to stremio
>picks whatever he wants to watch and it starts loading instantly.
>no autism keyboard
>no fighting with kodi
>no plugging flash drives into televisions or explaining why he has to wait for seeds
he says it's one of the perks of dating a nerd

>>109075724
You can use JellyFin on roku

>>109075759
does it also support hdmi cec, are you going to modify it so it boots straight into the environment? you could do all this shit or just spend $20 on a hdmi stick and put a piracy app on it.

you can tell who lives alone and thinks dragging a computer and keyboard and 100ft hdmi cable into their living room, manually starting xorg , and then starting the app is an acceptable "media pc" solution lol

>>109075441
>gets acquired by FOX
>will now only stream FOX slop

>>109075441
this garbage can't even install IPTV app because got sued by mexican soap opera channels

>>109075713
>no hdmi cec
Oh no I have to push 1 more button to turn it on. What ever am I going to do?
>yeah honey, i'll start netflix in a momemt. Just let me bring the keyboard and mouse from downstairs
You know that PC remotes exist, right? There are also little handheld keyboard/touchpad things too. You wouldn't want to type a paper on one, but it's way better for typing searches on than a remote, and some of them have a microphone if voice search is more your thing.

>2026
>having a TV at all
huh? do you guys also own typewriters?

>>109079756
what a virgin post

>>109075441
>Roku Stick
>Not an NVIDIA SHIELD
NGMI Anon

>>109077336
>stremio
Don't you have to pay2pirate for that to be any good?

theres no cloudstream on roku

>>109080192
you have to pay2pirate for debrid access which is just a seedbox, you can use stremio with regular p2p. I share a debrid account with my partner so the actual cost is like $1.50 a month for both of us to watch whatever we want instantly. Small price to pay for the convenience, in the usa you have to pay for a vpn anyway for torrents so might as well just go straight to a seedbox-type setup

>he pays for debrid
/ptg/ master race would never

>>109080311
have fun waiting for torrents and getting your shit pushed in when you get dmca'd by a law firm scrapping everyone's IPs in a swarm.

>he paid for his computer
>he pays for internet
>he pays for electricity
that's what you sound like

>>109080331
>have fun waiting for torrents and getting your shit pushed in when you get dmca'd by a law firm scrapping everyone's IPs in a swarm.
Haha
>he doesn't know

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>>109076309
the thin client with jellyfin/emby/kodi etc is much better. also the apple tv remote has a fucking touchpad because it was designed by faggots. plex users and itoddlers are cocksuckers.
>$20 e-waste thin clients require M&KB
itoddler filtered by a fucking mouse and keyboard
>a thin client running troonix hardware unable to use Plex
itoddler filtered by linux, comes crying home to macbook

for reference, i run a movie club, and we actually just play the movies via vlc directly off of linux desktop. nobody complains because we arent retarded.

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>>109075441
>Roku
>Bought by Fox recently
This is a fox thread.

>>109076369
yeah no, you're telling me your imaginary wife completely depends on you being available to lurk tranny private trackers or shady pirate websites to download her shitty series? when she could easily browse a platform that catalogs a billion of them?
you don't have to make shit up to hide your virginity, just be honest

>>109080443
The one she is currently watching is on Netflix but not in the country we live in. So what's less jank, connecting a VPN before watching and hoping Netflix didn't block it, paying for both Netflix and the VPN, or just dropping all the files on a USB drive? Also what happens if she wants to watch something that isn't on Netflix? We need to figure out what platform it's on, buy another subscription, install the app and log in... It's easier just to get all this shit from the same site. I just download it once and drop the folder onto my 256GB USB drive.

>>109080348
I don't care to know. This is cheap and high quality enough that I'm satisfied with it and don't need to minimax saving a couple bucks every month

>>109080503
Then it suddenly stops working after debrid comes under even more pressure and you're scrambling because you don't have any files locally and are too retarded to set up your own server. Instead of filling drives with shit from https://hdencode.org/ you used the account you paid for to stream YIFY tier slop and bragged on /g/ like you're some kind of piracy expert while people who actually know what they're talking about insulted you.

>>109080531
I'm streaming a 40gb remux 4k right now on a debrid. But you are right that the biggest one got cucked recently by Johnny law. There will always be another one to pivot to quickly, which I did.

>Too retarded
Nah I know how to setup an arr stack. I would rather do this though because it's easier the second you live with someone who isn't a nerd that doesn't want to have to ask you every time they want to watch something.

>No local files
I don't rewatch things, why would I need to cache them.

>>109080531
theres six quintillion debrid providers
I dont give any fucks

>>109080473
How about y'all start supporting the media you're actually interested in watching?

The roku stick is $30. What is a non-cucked alternative that is a similar price? I'm not buying several >$300 PCs for each TV in my house

>>109081844
raspbery?

>>109081844
Old Apple TV

>>109081844
Cheap boxes from aliexpress with amlogic s905 based socs. Put CoreELEC on them. Even when Raspberry Pis were cheap this was the better option because it came with a case, power supply and remote for less money.

>>109075441
>turrns your dumbTV into a giant spyware filled android tablet to watch niggers on youtube dicking off and trolling random people and playing ads to sleeping children
bravo dumbfucks

>>109080276
>in the usa you have to pay for a vpn anyway for torrents
The fuck are you talking about? I've been heavily torrenting for over 20 years and have never used a VPN or gotten a letter/email about it. Stop believing in retarded marketing bullshit. Your ISP doesn't give a shit, they simply want your business and keep you from going to the other guy.

>>109075713
You can always buy a wireless mouse & keyboard so your gigantic walrus ass can keep cratering into the couch
Americans on average are so out of shape its quite a trek just to waddle around to and from a car cause not complaining about parking lots long lines and having to be patient isn't patriotic
Now they have drive thru weed legal
My 400 lb uncle who just turned 60 and living off welfare goes a few places only once every few weeks
Drive thru liquor/cigarette shop for his Camels & Jim Bean (he really "needs" them to think straight)
Drive thru weed for his "back ache"
Wendys Baconater for his dislike of salad and fruit/veggies that his wife keeps trying to get him to eat instead, then home
Does door dash rest of the time even his pot comes to his door when gas is too expensive
Says the last time he was walking in a parking lot was in 2010 at my aunts funeral

>>109082724
my brother got a DMCA on Cox in Arizona like 13 years ago for pirating some random tv show. Parents were pissed at him, it happens, if you keep getting strikes they'll disconnect you. In regions where there are 1-2 isps max it's a problem

>>109083910
>strikes
>they'll disconnect you
No, they won't. They don't want to lose a single customer to the other guy. These days there's minimum 3 choices for nearly everyone in the US. It's the same reason why if you call them and bitch about the price right after the promo ends, they'll give you a deal. Same reason they give discounts to people that are poor as fuck.

>>109080754
I don't take advice from anyone who types y'all. If it's not licensed here what's there to support? The legit path is a waste of my time. I'd be spending more time researching how to watch something than actually watching it.

>>109083939
ok but I'm not unemployed so I'm just gonna $1-3 a month to never have to think about this problem

>>109083985
>ok but I'm not unemployed
non-sequitur. You're clearly a fucking idiot though.

>>109084008
if you can suggest a solution that costs $0 a month that lets me instantly stream any 4k blurray I want with a idiot friendly user interface I'm all ears.

>It's not my job to do the research for you
cool I'll stay a fucking idiot then and get access to everything I could ever possibly want for almost no money a month. Every time pay2pirate shit comes up the ultra frugalists start screaming and act like there's no spectrum beween giving netflix $30 a month for DRM encumbered yiffy rip quality 4k with a limited selection or giving a random debrid provider $1-3 for access to everything ever made, without drm.

>>109084033
>arguing with himself
Not just an idiot, but a retard too.

>>109084053
I was preempting what you were going to say. But there is no free 4k instant streaming solution because bandwidth costs money, I don't feel like waiting for torrents.

>>109084063
>I don't feel like waiting for torrents
You've been able to sequentially torrent forever. You're clearly a 3rd worlder with brown-tier internet and no access to private trackers. Enjoy throwing money away while I get everything for free.

>>109080400
why do mutts worship jewish aussie immigrants so much?

>>109084089
Sequential torrents buffer, especially on high quality rips. yes even with decent internet because you're fucked if the 1 seed on the other end of whatever old obscure show you're trying to watch doesn't have fast internet too.

>Access to private trackers
I would rather pay a nominal amount of money than participate in a secret circlejerk club where I have to worry about things like a seeding ratio.

>you're brown!
Not an argument

>Throwing money away
It's not throwing money away. I pay $36 a year for the equivalent of every streaming service combined into 1 program and make $7k a month. This is nothing to me.

>>109084141
>doesn't deny being brown
>doesn't deny being a 3rd worlder
>doesn't deny having brown-tier internet
It's always you sub-humans

>>109084141
>ratio
Lmao you retards all think it's 2006. We just coast off the bonus points. But it's besides the point. You don't know anything about anything. Therefore you get exactly what you deserve. Inferior service that you pay for and don't even know how to take advantage of correctly. Because you are an inferior being.

I don't even watch TV.

Also I want to drop one more point. These drooling retards who insist that we are poor for making fun of them for paying to stream can't afford hard drives.

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>>109076246
>I could whip up something better with a $20 e-waste thin client

Says the loser on 4chan with no owned property children or wife, you are also probably poor as shit, thanks for your input.

>>109084509
>iToddler file name
>chad meme in 2026
>stale /pol/ talking points
>insulting someone for being "4chan" on 4chan
Haha yeah we know you learned everything you know about this place on r/4chan. But don't forget, you're here forever. Your soul is now ours.

>>109076246
Based I like the energy. enough coddling the consooomers

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>>109084527
>zero arguments
>aspie meltdown
God luck with your 20 dollar apple tv

>>109084546
I also wish you luck in your continued delusion that choosing a specific brand of consumer electronics and trying to shit on anyone who approaches this from a hobbyist angle is going to get you some pussy. Last I checked women don't care about any of this. You're never going to win their approval here.

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>>109084564
I have a wife, a son and in my own house right now. I have nice things because i wasnt a retard. Take my advice, enjoy your hobby and shit but pipe down when you see real intelligent people telling you things and apply these things to your life. Maybe stop being such a faggot.

>>109084598
I'm sure your wife's son loves all those nice things you bought for him

>>109075441

For retards maybe. NvShield PRO + 4x 5TB hard drives + kodi.

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>>109084633
I could afford an Apple TV. But what is it going to do better than a device that costs half the price? If I was going to spend that kind of money I'd want to get something with a S922X-J in it. You do know why that's the enthusiast's choice, right?

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>>109084662
>S922X-J
Bro…

>>109075603
35 dollars and I can watch something in minutes?

>>109084662
Not him but no I don't enlighten me (unironically)

>>109084682
At least it's a good value for the money compared to other devices. You can not say that about an Apple TV compared to a Fire Sitck or some Onn box. They're nothing special.

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>>109075441
why do people pay for cable? it's inferior to tubi and other free apps which are free

>>109084703
Dolby Vision FEL playback

>>109084709
Mostly boomers who just refuse to learn anything including what most buttons on the remote do. People get to a point where they just give up learning and that's who cable/satellite are for. You know you're an old faggot when you start willfully choosing to avoid learning, I think a key to staying young is learning new bullshit, especially if it's a struggle, if it's a struggle and you hate it you're doing yourself a huge favor.

>>109084717
99% of videos wont matter with it. Its a snowflake technology at the moment and a 80 dollar 4k google does more.

>>109084739
>80 dollar 4k google does more
Lol no it doesn't. You don't know what you're talking about. But that's fine. I love your confidence. Keep posting.

>>109084705
the onn box is like $20 and plays 4k h264 / h265 / av1 / xvid / basically anything you would want to stream to it. It's by far the cheapest option if you just want to run jellyfin / plex / stremio / nuvio / any frontend connected to your backend of choice. The tradeoff is you have to sign into a google account which is gross but that's how they subsidize it so much. You can put projectivy on it and use adb to remove as much google shit as possible but completely degoogling isn't possible.

>>109084761
Which is precisely why I think the Apple TV is worthless and I will make fun of anyone who buys one. Something cheaper does it all with less restrictions. If you had some meme reason like wanting to decode hi10p x264 because you're a weeb I might let it slide.

>>109084754
I mean im trying to keep it within your budget lol, I have a pc like someone who isnt an idiot but im trying to work with you. Those little boxes are such third world garbage but again here we are.

>>109084787
Your PC can't output Dolby Vision Profile 7 FEL. It can't compete with the chinkshit running CoreELEC. I know, it breaks your brain. You want to believe that a name you can trust will get you the best of the best. But that's not how it works. The iToddler trash can't do it. An Nvidia Shield can't do it. But the "ugoos" or whatever the fuck it's called can. That's why people with high end home theater setups with TVs that cost more than your car buy them and not the iToddler box.

>>109084808
Spending more than a car to watch a movie that is barely noticeable compared to hdr on an oled. Should have just bought the apple tv, you might have sex more often lmao

>>109084838
>he thinks someone who has money to burn and a space to put these things in doesn't have sex
You have much to learn about the world beyond your shitty apartment

>>109084852
those are the people who usually have everything but a woman in their space.

>>109084872
This is the type of shit brokies actually think lmao. You think you need to buy a Netflix subscription and take tips from Marie Kondo to get a bitch. Throw away everything you love and care about just to get some temporary access to some pussy. You can fight it for as long as you'd like but if she really has a problem with you being an autistic dork who browses /g/ buying an Apple TV isn't gonna keep you in the closet. The divorce is inevitable. That's why I let every woman I ever dated see the real me. They need to know what's up before we get our lives entangled.

>>109084891
Should have just gotten the apple tv bro

>>109084929
Kek

>>109084929
Fuck that. You'd just as soon catch me trading out 4chan for Reddit and spending my days gushing about Taylor Swift songs.

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>>109075441
Buy a laptop
Connect it to your tv
Get bluetooth logitech keyboard with touchpad
Stop paying for goyslop

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>>109084953
your face trying to see the desktop ui across the room because it's not a 10ft ui

>>109084976
Speak for yourself old man

>>109084682
All that effort for 2% more brightness and the fucking box doesnt support av1. Consumers are fucking retarded

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>>109075441
stream delay SUCKS tho, just for that i'm getting one of those digital tv antennas and pray i can get a good signal.

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>>109084976
Are you mentally ill or just zoomer/alpha subhuman?
You can adjust UI scalling.

>>109075441
>*lags*

>>109084709
Live sports is pretty much the only reason to pay for cable or a streaming service.

>>109083975

>If it's not licensed here what's there to support?

Physical media still exists. LIBRARIES still exist, and most of them take requests to acquire things other than books; you just have to talk to them.

>I only listen to people who adhere to Standard 4chan Edgelord English

Echo chamber.

>>109075441
Lol what? A HTPC is better in every way. Get a K400 keyboard for maximum comfy. I can watch streaming, local, or any other form of content I want with zero ads and zero spyware.

>>109075713
>no hdmi cec
Opps.
https://www.amazon.com/Pulse-Eight-na-USB-HDMI-CEC-Adapter/dp/B005JU6LWM

>>109085899
he’s trying to shill Dolby Vision FEL. which isn’t worth the effort, but he still tries no matter what to make it seem like it’s the best shit in the world. That niggas paid 200+ to not get av1.

>>109085979
Poorfag found

>>109075441
Boomers love these things

>>109085979
>>109086430
Rokus can't even play 4K Blu-Ray rips' Dolby Vision. They're only useful for streamcuck normies, and they aren't even the best streaming device option.

Just get a CoreElec box for Blu-ray rips and a mini PC for whatever else like Youtube. If you need streaming (((services))) the Apple or even Android ones are probably better.

>>109086515
I got an Ugoos AM6B+ niggah. Two

>>109086529
good for you bud

>>109086553
Yup fuck Netflix and amazon prime and whatever the fuck else. I self host

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Imagine not owning an apple tv 4k

>>109075441
>>Heh nothing personal boomer
>looks inside
>boomers own it
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fox-corporation-to-acquire-roku-inc-302800220.html
better luck next time

>>109087623
Why would I own one of those? I don't watch shitty bitstarved streams so it has zero appeal.

>>109085101
how can europoors afford thousand-dollar wc tix???

>>109075441
I hate the Roku environment though.
>TV is integrated with Roku.
>Must sign in/up with a Roku account to use the TV or you can't even use the damn thing.
>Google is already getting your data
>Somehow Google TV doesn't require you to sign up/in to use the TV
The fuck kind of backwards shit is this?

>>109084709
I can see the appeal of having curated programming at least.
Even with Jellyfin/Kodi the choice paralysis can hit pretty hard.

>>109087774
This is why I own two Ugoos AM6B+

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>>109077336
I've replaced one of my OPi Kodi boxes with an Onn since it can use commercial streaming services plus run Kodi and play every codec I've thrown at it. They are also cheap AF, which is more than I can say about SBC / RPi these days.
Give me the QRD on degoogling this thing. The ads are obnoxious.
>>109075441
I'd like them a lot better if the stupid internal streaming service played modern codecs. Half the ones I have on my local network refused to play on this POS.

>>109075724
>So I can freely stream any of my own content and pirated content to it?
Yes, someone else suggested Jellyfin, I use Emby
>>109075603
>ad-ridden goyware
Enable developer mode, uninstall youtube and install "Playlet". There are zero ads. And if you want to use other apps, just run AdGuardHome or something

Shit's too autistic
I just install just player on my android tv. Plays most remuxes fine.