Channels & viewing

[lotusone]

It may be true, but it is still pretty lame.  For many individuals their hardware is likely <4 years old, which is a pretty short product lifecycle.

[Annonymous2422]

Is this incompatibility issue limited to Amazon Prime, or will other streaming channels be impacted?  Hulu?  Netflix? 

[atc98092]

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@Annonymous2422 wrote:

I'm wondering if anyone has any information on additional streaming channels that will also be incompatible?  Hulu? Netflix?  

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The older players can't run many of the newest channels. For example, Disney+, Paramount+ and HBO Max either can't be installed on the older players, or even if they can they work terrible. Netflix seems to be OK on the older ones, but you don't get the more modern user interface with them either. That's probably why the older players still work. But I can see the day coming that Netflix will drop support for the players that don't support profiles. And that's almost everything on that list that Amazon put out.

[StreamerUser]

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@lotusone wrote:

It may be true, but it is still pretty lame.  For many individuals their hardware is likely <4 years old, which is a pretty short product lifecycle.

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Thats simply false - the newest model in the deprecated list (the 3500) is 7 years old (March 2014).

While voice monitoring is a legitimate concern, you arent required to use a voice remote (unless you get a SS+) - all the non-stick models are both IR and WiFiDirect capable and can be used with IR-only universal/Roku-preprogrammed remotes (or even the Roku Simple Remote), thus avoiding any potential abuse/mis-use of the built-in mic in Voice remotes.

[Annonymous2422]

Thank you!  I would imagine upgrade will be necessary in the very near future, as with all technology.  Just trying to hold out a little longer (don't fix what ain't broke)  if Amazon is the only casualty so far. 🙂

[StreamerUser]

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@Annonymous2422 wrote:

Is this incompatibility issue limited to Amazon Prime, or will other streaming channels be impacted?  Hulu?  Netflix? 

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Its not incompatibility per se, Amazon is ending service support for the Prime app on those devices (which havent updated in years).

For older models, service providers stop providing app updates and eventually deprecate service to those models/apps entirely (again, very normal), so you should expect this to happen to other apps on those older models.

[lotusone]

Your statement is actually false - the date a model was launched does not equal the date it was purchased in a store.

One - love. 🎾

[renojim]

It doesn't matter if you bought it today or 7 years ago - it's still a 7 year old model with 7 year old technology.

[lotusone]

I expect more.

Pushing users to purchase new hardware before the end of it's functional lifecycle is wasteful and destroying the planet. Just because the developers don't feel like honing their skills (or more likely Amazon doesn't want to budget for it) to offer non-bloated efficiently coded versions that support a range of generations, doesn't make it right.

I as a consumer speak with my $, and if this trend continues I'll be bucking even harder against it.

[lotusone]

Cool man 😎 7 years, 4 years. Whatever. It still works like the day it was new.

I have an eleven year old laptop that probably runs faster than whatever you are using, and still use a 30 year old Atari STe with a Motorola 68000 processor for certain coding tasks.

Abandoning hardware in short lifecycles is just profit driven and eventually people will stop utilizing it, except for you. 

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