@Philhagen wrote:
My Roku (2710x) was purchased in 2106 and won’t support Hulu live tv. Is that the new shelf life? So happy to dump cable and now this **bleep**.
You may have purchased it in 2016 (I assume that was what you meant), but the 2710 was released in Sept 2013. So its design was 3 years old when you bought it, and it's now a 6 year old design. In electronics, that's a very long time. Roku, as has most other manufacturers, continues to improve their product, and as such it reached a point that the older hardware just can't run the latest OS and applications. So, you either let your system stagnate so the oldest devices still work, or you reach a point and say that certain older devices can no linger be supported.
The Roku 1 (2710) was the next to bottom model available in 2013, and Roku hardware has vastly changed since then. I'm not surprised they've finally cut off support for them. My 3100 (2XS) is even older, and it too is no longer supported. That doesn't bother me, because I stopped using it years ago because it performed so poorly with the later updates. Again, technology marches on, and inexpensive electronic devices are often required to be replaced to keep up. You spend more money, you get a longer lifespan.The original Nvidia Shield came out in 2015, and sold for well over $200. But it used sufficiently advanced hardware, and they continue to support the player even today. But most people would prefer to pay $30-50 for a Roku, that does much of what the Shield can do and save the money.
Dan
Roku Stick (3600), Ultra (4640), Premiere (3920), Insignia 720p Roku TV, Sharp 4K Roku TV, Nvidia Shield, Windows 10 Pro x64 running Serviio and Plex on a wired Gigabit network.
