Channels & viewing

[blessed59]

Roku, why are you not providing a profanity, violence, and sexual content filter to the Roku app/stick and Roku TV? Many people are asking for this. Many people would be willing to pay extra for this please consider providing this service it so needed.

[atc98092]

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@blessed59 wrote:

Roku, why are you not providing a profanity, violence, and sexual content filter to the Roku app/stick and Roku TV? Many people are asking for this. Many people would be willing to pay extra for this please consider providing this service it so needed.

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Roku can't do this because that is controlled by the app in use. They can't alter what the app is doing. Roku provides the platform, and can't alter what the 3rd party app does. 

[760duck]

Dan's response doesn't sound accurate. Roku has to have some layer between the individual streaming services and your TV, as evidenced by the Roku home screen's ability to search for, & launch a stream directly from there, even though roku launches the streaming service in so doing. It is this lower layer where Roku should be able to provide "parental control" features or allow VidAngel to do so. Alternately, VidAngel could launch streams on other streaming services, routing the stream through VidAngel, just as you do on a laptop & just as Amazon launches FreeBee shows, Hallmark shows, etc., though that route likely would require contracts between VA & any streaming service that routed through VA.

[atc98092]

The Roku search function only works with apps/channels that permit Roku to index their content (or provide such an index to Roku). There's no middle layer performing that function. Once you select a channel to use, Roku no longer has any control, other than the Roku screensaver being activated if something is paused long enough. And that's only if the channel provider allows Roku to do so. Some channels have their own screensavers and don't use the Roku settings.