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David Pierce Mar 6, 2023

After three months of watching TV with a sleeping baby, I've come to one important conclusion: streaming boxes suck. All of them. And that's a real bummer. https://www.theverge.com/23621907/streaming-tv-boxes-roku-amazon-google-apple-nvidia

All the streaming boxes suck now

Streaming boxes have gone from promising little gadgets to ubiquitous headaches. No matter if it’s a Roku, Amazon, Google, or even Apple device, they all suffer from poor user experiences that haven’t matured in the past decade.

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meehawl

@pierce Agree with the Shield and I like theory that Nvidia is just waiting for Nintendo to put in a giant order for a newer Switch SoC to update

It's the content owners that force the crappiness. Best boxes simply get buried. eg, Tivo as "better than anything else on the market." This erases history of the Andreeson-funded ReplayTV. Those boxes did auto ad detect & skip, recording streaming, remote access. ReplayTV was hammered by lawsuits, leaving only the gimped-by-design Tivo remaining.