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Really looking forward to seeing these materialize, and I'm sure they will at some point down the road. Hopefully things will settle down over the next year and allow time to develop these client apps. I'm just happy to see all of the features and improvements that have been added in 2019... keep up the great work.
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their words can stand and people can still voice their opinions that there should be a roku app. the two don't have to be mutually exclusive.
HDHomerun app doesn't work with TVE or Locast.
If MPEG2 is problematic, why not just support MPEG4? Some of us have have HDHomeRun EXTENDs transcoding to MPEG4.
Also, PSVue and YoutubeTV developed an app for Roku so the platform is capable of supporting a DVR app.
Everything we do and provide takes effort for our team to build and maintain. Currently we are focused on improvements to the existing apps that we know will have a big impact on many of our existing customers.
The technical limitations of a platform is just one of the many reasons why we don’t currently have a supported Roku app.
Understood. It's hard to swallow, especially for all those TV's with Roku already there, but it's not hard to imagine how complicated it would be to support all devices, and there is a pretty good list of compatible devices already.
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Has there been anything on a Roku app? I would imagine not. But I’m hopeful that one day they will have an app for Roku.
The post directly above your new one gives you the answer.
I agree, Roku is a terribly locked down and limited platform.
The devs at Emby also has had a hard time with Roku, and were unable to resolve major issues with their app due to the limitations of the platfourm. Like how every time u tune a channel in the app on Roku, it locks the HDHR tuner, and then u run out of tuners, and have to force a server restart. ...as their app can not have certain access to some system command that tells the server u have changed or stopped the stream. they gave up.
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Would love to see a Roku app. We know it's possible, this team has already demonstrated it, SiliconDust has a native app, and Plex can do direct stream. I got a Fire Stick so I could try Channels on it but I vastly prefer the Roku experience, it's a lot more polished. The platform may be more difficult to develop for, but every service out there has a presence on it. Even a basic app would be better than nothing. Really happy with Channels, seems more stable than Plex.
When the channels-dvr was available for roku, I used it alot(I have xfinity 1gb service and a high end wireless access point, and never had a problem....but I get it that a majority had issues...keep up the good work...
I fully understand the effect of the technical issues on enthusiasm for Roku development, but that said, my daughter's family is reaching the end of the road with TiVo and CableCard, and has has already embraced Roku on all their sets, so just dropping a Channels box (with Roku support) into their household would be a godsend. . .
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Probably easier to get them to embrace a different streamer than to get these guys enthused. Does Roku really bring anything noteworthy to the table at this stage?
This thread goes back to 2018 and my post is only the 36th post. Demand can't be that great for them to even try and get enthused.
Actually, Roku has a large and more importantly growing market share relative to the other streamers. Normal product development wisdom would be that when your customers represent a shrinking slice of the market (think Betamax) you need to address the growing segment. But my experience as a hardware developer has taught me that software developers are wired like cats, so all bets are off.
i have several roku devices in my house and in general i'd prefer if there were a roku app to go along with the android ones...but i'm sorry, this needs to be said: comparing android / apple tv to betamax (as if roku is VHS) is laughable.
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Cite?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha 
I never thought about it that way, but that's a pretty apt observation 
And if anyone needed more evidence of that, look no further than Google's graveyard of messaging apps ...
Very interesting article comparing what is happening in the US vs the rest of the world and how different it is depending upon how you slice it.
Yeah, I tried to find evidence to either prove or dispute @k2ue's assertion and encountered a raft of conflicting stories, data, and stats.
Near as I can tell, Roku does retain more market share than any other single streaming device maker, but I found no evidence that share was growing.
We had a Roku 2. I could never come to love it. Can't say why. When we went with an HDHR tuner and Roku was unsupported, having to replace it gave me no heartburn.
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Somehow it seems this thread turned into how great the Roku platform is. The issue here is, and always was, crappy hardware.
Channels, or any other DVR software is horrible on said crappy hardware. Stream from external sources all you like on Roku, it's great for that, but you can't timeshift live TV at all on the Roku hardware.
It's really that simple.
*when I say "timeshifting", I mean pausing and restarting or watching the show while it's still being recorded.