Channels & viewing

[Dakotavs]

This is so annoying. I looked up Hereditary on my TV and it didnt pop up with anything. So I google it on my phone and it's literally on Netflix. Why did the break the search function? It just pops up with tangentially related movies.

[AvsGunnar]

@Dakotavs 

Yup.  Nothing came up for Hereditary on the device Search.

Did show up when searching from the What's On section on Roku website though.

https://www.roku.com/whats-on/search?q=hereditary

[renojim]

Does anything ever show up as being available on Netflix?  Something way in the back of my brain says Netflix doesn't include their content in Roku's search.

[JWS9518]

@renojim I did a search for Stranger Things as a test and it shows up in search for Netflix.

[Bliff]

Completely agree. Search results are polluted by similar results, created by some AI monstrosity. I did a search for "2001" on my Roku Ultra. It was the 6th or 7th result in the carousel, behind other movies. I did a dead-on search for "The War of the Gargantuas", had to scroll through about 20-25 results before there it was, the exact thing I was searching for. This makes the search function completely useless.

[Bliff]

Search results are being polluted by similar results, likely created by some AI monstrosity. Did a search for "2001" on my Roku Ultra. The movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" was the 6th or 7th result in the carousel, behind similar scifi movies. Then I did a dead-on, exact-letter search for "The War of the Gargantuas", had to scroll through about 20-25 results before there it was, the exact thing I was searching for. This makes the search function completely useless.