Hallelujah!!! The channel numbers are back. Roku, can we please keep it that way?!!!
Looks like this is a known feature that is being enabled. It's mentioned in one of the changes in OS 12.5. Now that it has rolled out to most users, Roku is now enabling various features.
So removing functionality is considered to be a feature... Ugh. Who makes these decisions?
>>So removing functionality is considered to be a feature...
Hahaha. Yes, the behaviour certainly seems that way. I can't help but wonder if Roku is using the same developers and decision makers as Pluto, or they're both in a race to the bottom. Pluto advertises new channels but can't tell you where they are because they've eliminated channel numbers and are too apathetic to even tell us what category they are placed. Pluto added a category for one channel: "Last Watched" , which is the same channel you go to when you start the app. Roku has the category "Recents" which is equally useless. I bet for most folks, channels in Recents are the same ones as in Favorites.
Roku has also received many complaints about losing the default of Favorites. They fixed it, but that was short lived and it's again broken due to a 'software update', which as far as I can tell fixed absolutely nothing or solved problems that did not exist.
The issues with Roku won't get fixed until the decision makers and those making the updates start using their products themselves to see what their customers have to put up with.
The problem with categories is they need to be sure to place every channel in a category. Roku has not done that in the past. You could have searched every category for True History (before it was removed) and not found it. There were other channels like that too. I would use Favorites if it were reliable.
I'll adapt. There are other apps available on Roku.
I like numbers as can remember the channel number and go right to channel i want.
I would so simple to add back the numbers. I can not see problem.
I had to get new tablotv as first died The Tablotv works on Ruko.
The 4th generation has steaming too .
Very nice menu
FYI Tablo is a DVR and both Antenna and steaming channels can be rewind
Dave
