Question On Roku Email About Legacy Devices

"TheEndless" wrote:

"yogamerge" wrote:
So I guess this means that if your current channel works on legacy devices that you will have to submit a new channel package/version with a minimum firmware setting that excludes legacy devices before the deadline or you will no longer be able to update your channel?

I assume that updating channel refers to making changes to the bright script code, not adding new content via your own server and xml feeds?

Hopefully someone from Roku will chime in and clear up the confusion.

I think you're reading way too much into it and making it a lot more complicated that it is. They are discontinuing support for legacy devices. It's that simple. If you have an existing channel that works on legacy devices, it will continue to work. If you publish an update, it will only go out to new devices. It will not stop working on newer device, nor will you be prevented from updating it on newer devices, just because it currently works on legacy devices.

Thanks TheEndless, your post makes perfect sense, I hope you're right. So let's say my current channel is version 1.0 and runs on legacy devices, when I update it I will just have to submit a package with minimum firmware that excludes legacy devices as version 2.0? therefore the original version isn't updated.

The below statement makes it sound like if your current channel runs on legacy devices that after May 30th, you will no longer be able to issue updates or a firmware update, but using your logic, you could as long as it was as a new version excluding legacy devices?

"...we will no longer launch new channels, update existing channels, issue firmware updates or provide developer support for channels that run on these older devices."