@glend123 wrote:
Bring the favorites back!! Why get rid of it in the first place? Give us a choice of how we want to view channels.
My impression is that Roku is trying to drive people to the Roku channel. I imagine a lot of antenna users are creatures of habit (like I am) and don't go to the trouble of clicking on the other tiles. So, Roku renamed "Antenna" to "Live-TV," added 1000+ streaming channels (so you can't avoid them by default), and make you sit on each one a little longer (by disabling continuous up/down channel scanning; now you have to push the up/down arrow once for every channel). Likewise, "favorites" is an enabler of your comfort zone. So, that's gone. Instead, you see your entire channel traversing history -- which exposes you to the channels Roku wants you to see.
That's my theory. There's no money in it for Roku when people watch over-the-air antenna tv. Roku's increasingly inserting itself into that activity. It's offensive to me because I thought I paid Roku when I bought my tv. I thought TCL had a licensing agreement to use Roku as the OS, and Roku got part of the money built into the price of the TV. Now it feels like a shake down, forced into a non-antenna experience. (This is why I think there's legitimate reason for people to file formal complaints with the FTC and their state regulators, most likely attorneys general.).
"People are often amazed at how much we’ve done with the number of engineers we’ve got." (Roku CEO Anthony Wood, Austin Statesman, Oct 4, 2019). "Amazed" is one way of putting it.
