commercials on acorn.tv
I have a paid subscription to acorn.tv on the roku channel. "Midsomer Murders" is part of acorn.tv subscription, yet all episodes (except season 20) still have commercials. I thought paid subscript...
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We’ve been having the same problem with our Acorn subscription through Roku. Watching the Acorn Roku channel, some days we have to watch ad after ad over and over. Today it was while watching McLeod’s Daughters. Roku support says they just manage payments and content is controlled by the channel partner Acorn.
Roku gave me a number to call Acorn support. It turned out to be Acorns investments. Finally found a way to reach Acorn support and learned Roku support was also lying that Roku does not control content:
Dear Subscriber,Thank you for contacting Acorn TV!We can confirm Acorn TV is a commercial free streaming service. However, if you are streaming from a third party device such as Roku, Amazon/ Firestick, Apple TV, FireTV etc. Roku's have recently started showing interactive pop-up ads overlaid.At anytime we recommend to stream Acorn TV on all standalone apps via our website or mobile apps, and iPad/Tablets.—The Acorn letter also includes a link to a gizmodo article Your Roku is an ad factory, but this forum does not allow the link.
