Disable Autoplay in the "Roku Channel"
As discussed here, there are many who would like to have the ability to disable autoplay in the "Roku Channel" so that when the episode you are watching is finished, the next one won't start automati...
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As a software developer, I can say, software in general made by most companies is garbage. I could not possibly care so little about my customers, but they are all too big to fail so we just put up with their garbage software. Very few channels care anything about what I want to watch. As far as they are concerned, I am five years old and want to watch dinosaurs just because they have a friggin dinosaur movie. Algorithms have been created that will show you just what you want to watch and don’t need any more intrusion than knowing what you say you like or what you have watched. It’s really stupid to just pump out every piece of garbage and make it equal. And I know this is a different topic about Searching for movies and trying to put them on a list of the **bleep** thing just keeps playing them instead. Get rid of auto play. Pay attention. Stop hiring little kids to design your software.
Many of the offerings on The Roku Channel are continuous live streams. Whatever comes in from the stream source gets transmitted to you in real time. There really is no autoplay on such sources, it is just one continuous stream.
BUT, on those sources where one can select the episode one wishes to view, to go to the next episode requires the software to explicitly request and specify the next thing to view. There is no reason an option could not be provided to prevent this, other than lack of interest in doing so.
Unfortunately, although Roku provides this "Suggest a Feature" area, it looks to me that everything posted here just goes into a black hole. Has anyone ever seen participation from ANY Roku employee in these threads?
