Suggest a Feature

[mikdale]

It would be great if Roku remembered the channel and program I was last watching to place on the home screen. Android TV offers this feature. 

[JustJeremy]

I agree with this. This is only my 2nd day using Roku.  I'm a busy guy and had to pause several shows I was watching.  Well the screen saver kicked in and so did the auto shut off.  It really was a bad user experience trying to remember where those shows were at that I was watching.  

[BrianAndKarenC]

Yes, I agree with this feature wholeheartedly.

Most Roku apps have a "Continue Watching" feature built in.  That is great for picking up where we left off when we go back to that same app, but we switch between 6 or more different apps to watch shows, and while some family members remember what shows are on what app, others do not, and it makes Roku seem "very user-unfriendly".

Please add a "Continue Watching" screen to the main menu of Roku and add whatever APIs are needed to let each app add the recently watched title and viewing position to the screen as it is being watched (in case Roku powers off or the Home button is pushed without warning). Also, please give each app a way to update the "Continue Watching" list periodically (like each time the home screen loads) so that when new episodes are released the title can show up on the list again if previously there was no more content to continue with.

I realize this will require some buy-in from the app/channel creators to use the new APIs, but the benefits would be substantial to the user experience.

Currently the biggest complaint I hear about us using Roku for all of our viewing in our family is how hard it is to pick up where they left off since they have to hunt through multiple apps.  I also believe this is a big hurdle for the much older users and the much younger viewers that don't want to have to keep searching for a title (or don't know how to search after someone else finds a title for them) that they have already started watching.

Please consider adding this as it would make the viewing experience much more seamless than the disjointed one it is now.

Thank you!

[robreid73]

I bought a Roku for myself, and I was going to get another one for my wife to watch on another TV, but she said she probably won't use it because it doesn't have this feature and it was frustrating,  so I did not buy it for her. They lost a sale because of the lack of this feature and probably a lot of sales. This complaint has now been posted on Amazon reviews. 

[phillH]

I like this idea.