Features, settings & updates

[fedupwithtv]

Just started yesterday on live tv channel guide at top of screen when  you press the left arrow to browse channels squares at top of screen appear that shows other shows playing now

[Dave28]

I agree except I have another gripe about favorites.  FAVOITES AREN'T NUMERICAL ORDER!

[Joelsalinas]

That's really annoying 

[Joelsalinas]

Please remove them it is VERY annoying 

[StevenCee]

I'm watching a show on one of the Roku live channels, hit the left hand button, to see what's on some other channels, while a commercial plays, or as I listen to the news. But instead of showing me both the information about the show I'm watching, and enabling me to scroll through the Channel Guide, it immediately takes me to an entirely different channel!!  WTH?

It seems that you've now put yet another layer of bells & whistles to the mix, which is of course, complicating the process of navigating channels. There's now a top layer of show windows above the entire Guide, so that once you hit the left hand button, poof, you're suddenly on the show that's first in that line!! Where of course, I had no intention of wanting to go, and now I'm in a completely different position on the channel guide, no longer seeing/hearing the show I was in the middle of, and now am forced to do a number of extra clicking around, just to get back to where I was, IF, it is showing up in the Recents list (as sometimes the most recent shows aren't). 

This extra added layer of complication is hardly a worthwhile addition! There are already rows of "suggested shows" in the menu when you click on Roku Live, in fact, often I have to scroll way down, to finally get to the actual Roku Live option, so why add even more once someone is already watching a show???  If I want to see other channels, I have the Guide, or I can hit the "Recommended" list, or go back to the opening page!  WE DON'T NEED ALL THIS REPLICATION!! 
Plus, it means, I can't even use the "Last Channel" option to return to my show, once involuntarily taken away to another one! I have to scroll here & there, to finally get back. And it also cancels out any previous channel I had been going back & forth from, just more aggravation!  Tell your people to quit dropping these redundant & unwanted complications into the mix. It's hard enough just to be able to do simple things as it is, why add more confusion?

[Rkusks777]

what solution, this just started on my tv today, February 20th 2025. what is the solution, this really sucks.

[Kat56]

Hate it, why Roku doesn't leave well enough alone !! I have to click vlick click ,ridiculous! Scroll down to get any type of guide to come up, no one likes the change,  click on guide, want only guide,  want apps we'll click on apps, the tiles take up the whole top of tv screen,  only get 4 lines of guide, stupid!!

[nixo]

TOTALLY agree with this user. I HATE this new channel feature. Yeah, it’s one click away from the channel choice selection menu, but it’s one click that I have to do EVERY SINGLE TIME I change the channel. (EVERY SINGLE TIME, EVERY SINGLE TIME, EVERY SINGLE TIME … point taken?).

Atrocious interface design and so avoidable. Why not make this a user-choice selectable option in the Home prefs? Why force a totally untested,  unwelcome and arbitrary major interface change on your unsuspecting customers? Very condescending and un-user-centric. Did you imagine you were trying to vaguely emulate TickTock? What a horrible, half-baked idea; pls toss it into the trashbin of history, asap. Thanks.

[nixo]

And some related comments: As a user, I don’t want Roku’s channel suggestions. I’ll choose my own, thanks. The endless repeat Roku channel adverts during the show brakes are so very tiresome. I’d rather watch your partner Pluto TV’s mindless break time spacescapes.

But what _astounds_ me is the amount of commercial revenue Roku is foregoing by not selling that break time. You have likely millions of eyeballs available for local/regional and national ad content/sales that you’re not monetizing, and giving up for nothing, 24-7. Plus Roku is losing out on all the massive amounts of related user data tied to ad views that it could be compiling and selling.

Who on earth is running the profit-making side of the enterprise to be incurring these lost ad sales opportunities, ad nauseam? (Ha ha, what a pun… but actually sad.) Is Roku’s ads pricing model simply way off? There’s gotta be more of an ad market here for you.

To be clear, as a user, I’d hate more ads. But ads filling up that unsold airtime would be no worse than endless annoying Roku channel promos and all the other duplicative content Roku and its partners serve up during the show breaks.

At the same time, I want Roku to be as financially healthy and stable as possible, so that you can continue to serve up the content I do like and chose you for.  So get with the ad $$ program, folks!

=> Would appreciate it if you’d share this comment with management, esp the marketing and business teams. Thanks!

[tmitch120]

I also was just victimized by this. Thank you Roku for what is going to be a terrific, daily time-waster and  I'm sure will be another opportunity for me to regret convincing my elderly father to buy a Roku TV. He rarely uses anything more than his OTA channels and he will no doubt call me in the morning to ask me to "fix it".

Just for reference, many folks don't actually consider turning Live TV into a time-suck like typical streaming apps to be a positive thing. Please allow us to hide that row just like the "features" that we can hide on the home screen.