• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Tons of older folks (like my Mom, grandma, my aunts) have Rokus set up to replace cable. They don’t know how to operate individual apps, but they love Roku TV (which pops up by default), and kinda just watch whatever comes in.

    So… Yeah.

    That’s not worrying at all.

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      13 hours ago

      A lot of the stuff that comes over the online TV channels is also broadcast over the air, have you considered getting them an antenna?

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        12 hours ago

        They all have one! In the attic, with an amp. I installed them myself.

        It’s not the same as the Roku TV app though. Those channels are like older person catnip, and the duplicated ones don’t cut out unpredictably.

        It’s also understandably difficult for some folks to remember how to change TV input, rescan channels and such.