Community discussions

[miles_lloyd]

I can confirm that my Roku TV died in that 3 year period and one other person I know experienced the same within two weeks of each other...

[atc98092]

Roku doesn't manufacture the TVs. They are all built by different manufacturers, I think close to a dozen different companies. If you're having TV failures, you need to identify the brand. Saying a "Roku TV" is meaningless. My Sharp Roku TV is now 5 years old and my Insignia Roku TV is 6 years old. If a TV fails, you need to talk to the manufacturer, not Roku.

[fluke]

Consumer reports gives TV brands a "Predicted Reliability" a score between 1 (bad) to 5 (good):

5 (good): Sony, Samsung, Insignia

4: LG, Philips, RCA

3 (medium): TCL, Vizio, Hisense, Toshiba, Element, Westinghouse

Unrated: Amazon, Onn, Pioneer

Not all TVs are manufactured with the same quality of capacitors and that can show up over time.

Another factor might be the consistency with the electrical power delivered to the TV.  Even when the TV is off, the power supply is still working to provide power to capture a remote control signalling to turn it on.  A lightning storm may damage the life of the power supply thus later impacting when the TV dies.  A plugging into a surge suppression strip will clamp a surge after a period of time (but not immediately) and will not address a brown out which delivers a reduce voltage.  If reliability is a priority then consider investing in an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) which is rated for the total wattage of everything you want to protect off it. 

[Carmen2]

Unfortunately that seems to be the lifespan on Roku.

[Oisean]

Moved and bought a new Roku TV for bedroom.  Found lot of apps removed.  Roku pulled a Tumblr and about to be relegated to irrelevance like them for the same reason?  Shareholder and/or Corporate stupidity?

[Fred_McIntyre]

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@Oisean wrote:

Moved and bought a new Roku TV for bedroom.  Found lot of apps removed.  Roku pulled a Tumblr and about to be relegated to irrelevance like them for the same reason?  Shareholder and/or Corporate stupidity?

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Quite often the lines between "stupidity" and agenda can be blurred, and/or one can be mistaken for the other, seems to be the trend lately.

[atc98092]

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@Oisean wrote:

Moved and bought a new Roku TV for bedroom.  Found lot of apps removed.  

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If by chance the removed channels were all Private Channels, Roku announced months ago they would all be removed. There is plenty of discussion about this in other threads. If the new TV was linked to an existing Roku user account, all channels associated with that account should have been installed automatically, although they won't necessarily be located in the same place on the home screen. 

[Oisean]

Yup private and like Tumblr seems like it was a backdoor to remove adult content.  Hence my first comment about shareholder or corporate stupidity

[atc98092]

Had nothing to do with corporate "stupidity". The private channel providers were not complying with the Roku terms of use for providing those channels, and rather than going through them piecemeal they simply shut them all down. It was a liability issue, and Roku was simply protecting themselves and their stockholders. There were a few "good" private channels that were caught up in the purge, but they simply need to fully comply with the terms of use and they can get their channels added to the public channel store. 

[Rabia123]

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@IMTheNachoMan wrote:

It's going down a lot but I'm not sure why. I feel like Roku is the best media platform out there and I was thinking of buying stocks, but their stock seems to be performing poorly.

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Really!