Roku Device Features, Settings & Updates

[tgeffeney]

So am I to understand that if I own a 3700X but want to watch Peacock I have to toss my current device that I already paid for and buy a newer Roku?  Anyone else think this is an issue?

[Strega]

Well, I haven't yet looked at Peacock, and I don’t have a 3700X, so it's not an issue for me, but if it is an issue for you, you might want to contact them (Peacock/NBC) and ask their developers to try harder to support the older platforms. 

As for having new software not work on old platforms.  Yeah, that's the world of technology.  I still have my first personal computer from 1976 - but only as a memento.  Absolutely nothing modern runs on it! In between that and my current computer I've tossed many because they were too old to be useful, yet too new to be "collectible".

[andyross]

As noted, this is a decision by NBC/Universal to limit their support to newer devices. Looking at hardware specs, all of the supported ones appear to use ARM-based processors. The other devices use older CPU's that work very differently.