Roku Rolls Out a New Update to Roku TVs & Roku Players cordcuttersnews.com/roku-rolls-out-a-new-update-to-roku-tvs-roku-players/ Venu Sports Could Launch in The Next Few Weeks As Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, & Fox Put All Their Homes Into This New Service cordcuttersnews.com/venu-sports-could-launch-in-the-next-few-weeks-as-disney-warner-bros-discovery-fox-put-all-their-homes-into-this-new-service/ Sling TV Freestream Adds 11 New Free Channels cordcuttersnews.com/sling-tv-freestream-adds-11-new-free-channels/ 41 Years Ago Today ABC Bought ESPN’s “Worldwide Leader” Changing The World of Sports TV cordcuttersnews.com/41-years-ago-today-abc-bought-espns-worldwide-leader-changing-the-world-of-sports-tv/ Discovery+ is Raising Its Price cordcuttersnews.com/discoveryis-rasing-its-price/
All these streaming services and companies are just trying to change cable with the exception of prices. Pretty soon we all will be paying almost $200 for streaming channels. Best intelligent thing for us to do is ❌❌❌❌ cancel all until they have no choice but to lower prices. We continue to pay these ridiculous prices and they will continue to go higher. Time to find another hobby. I will not continue to get used by our government and companies. Tired of it.
Thank you for the information you provide. I cut the cord several months ago and have been an avid follower since! Your reporting helped me along the way.
Ty again Luke for the info! Great job and keep it coming please. Also, for anniversaries, the 30th anniversary of the launch of The WB Television Network is this Saturday! I still remember when it launched. Good times.
Reference ESPN: Several years ago, I heard (from a source I do not recall now) that about $5.00 of a typical monthly cable bill was for the ESPN subscription, a larger chunk of change than for any other network.
Fact check: ✅ True. I did a contract for an organization I worked with that let us choose individual packages. We could get something like 90 basic and deluxe channels for LESS than just ESPN alone. ESPN by itself was something like $5 and if you got the ESPN group including ESPN 2, ESPNEWS, ESPN Classic and ESPN college it was like $3.90. You were required to show all networks to get the bundle price. A retail customer was not allowed to delete ESPN so every year they went up. It was called the ESPN tax and no cable company could afford to not have it. Even HBO was less than ESPN.
@@realSamAndrew I bailed from YT TV in August 2020 because of that. The word on the street was the 50 to 65 a month was mostly going to Disney and ESPN needed the money for the sports leagues they bought. I bailed then.
I had this happen a long time ago. Does your Roku hold a micro card? If so remove it reboot and install it again. If it still happens completely remove it.
Do a factory reset and then update again. My Roku Ultra thought it was disconnected from the Internet; wouldn’t run the update. Rebooted, it completed without incident.
Why can't Disney have two packages with max? Each individual, but the combo price would be cheaper than paying for them individually. Price can go up rather one, but won't affect the other one that is individual.
My prior Roku TV was bricked by an update. After the update, it was stuck in a loop that would update the system, show me the splash screen, tell me I needed to apply an update if I tried to get it to do anything, run a system update . . . I'd had the set for six years, so buying a new TV was easier than trying to fix it. Quality -- it's job ZERO for today's companies.
Did you call Roku consumer service and acknowledge the latest tos and report that it was the last update that tried to install and report the last version that was considered working to watch stuff and if that doesn't work someone will come to your house or give a consumer service reference to the original retailer of purchase or shipping if you ordered it online and this why you should backup your Roku device to your account to help set up a new device
Their Trivia game is fun but i really wish they would give us a choice of different subjects other than Entertainment. Sports, History , General Knowledge would all be great. Give us other choices.
I Wanting rounded corners on the Apps too much to ask? The Apps looks so cheap and cut out of a paper look. The rounded corners looks like they put effort as well as a shadow on each app.
Just wanted to let you know that TH-cam TV took off the channel that was showing Portland Blazers games off their service. It was a local channel called KUNP.
You're SOL on that. There apparently was a Blink app for Roku as late as April of last year, but I found no such animal on my Roku. You can view Blink cameras via Fire TV cubes or sticks, or get one of Roku's own cameras, but it seems Blink integration with Roku is a think of the (recent) past.
That's the correct number for the latest update. My Roku TV didn't automatically update so, I did it manually and, the number is exactly what you posted.
Finally hooked an antenna to my Roku tcl TV. I scan & pick up 47 channels & the over-air & streaming channels are separated on the live TV guide but then later when I go back to watch live TV, the antenna channels are gone til I rescan again. Is this a bug? Has anybody else experienced this?
Yeah, it's a common problem. I wasn't able to have both streaming and antenna on Live TV, had to hide streaming channels under “Settings/TV Inputs/Manage Channels/Hide Streaming Channels” for Live TV, then rescan the antenna channels. That was stable, I got the antenna channels and they didn't go away. Not that big a deal, as you can add similar streaming channels via app (Roku Channel, Xomo, Tubi, TCL Channel, etc). They pretty much offer the same stuff. If anyone comes up with a way to have both, fill me in.
Ditto. My Roku tv will show over the air when first turned on but once I hit guide, it goes to streaming only. Have to turn off and on again to get back to over the air watching.
I really hope this Ruku update works. The last few updates didn't play well with Tablo. The last took a week just for a work around for my main TV, and took another few weeks for the rest. Not real impressed with their updates. As for Venu, it is way overpriced. I guess they have to pay for their over payed SEC and BIG both of which I don't watch. Im OTA and tired of being force fed the SEC and BIG on the major networks. It would be nice to watch my favorite teem, that are normally viewed on the lower channels, but not at that price.
Discovery plus I had for awhile and liked, but found most of the shows i was after were on services I had, so I dropped it. Congrats on the years of cord cutting news
Yeah, I dropped Discovery+ because whatever content on it I was interested in was duplicated on Max, which I had subscribed to with the Black Friday deal.
This... I feel like a lot of people miss this. When I dug deep, I was able to cancel 3 services due to overlap. The content was available through other premium services I already paid for.
Ugh, ESPN isn't worth watching anymore. It's all socio-political agenda and not enough straight-up sports coverage. I miss the Sportscenter of 10-20 years ago. My Roku Ultra has the 14.1.4 update, but I never did see the kids' section before or after. I turn off everything I can on the Home screen, but I see no kids' section option there.
Your TH-cam ads don't sit well with my browsers. You can try to make all the money you want. There's always a way to defeat you. How about trying to get a job?
@@matthewgandy9774 I think it means politically aware of social issues and injustices. It started in the Black Lives Matter movement. According to Wikipedia.
Roku Rolls Out a New Update to Roku TVs & Roku Players cordcuttersnews.com/roku-rolls-out-a-new-update-to-roku-tvs-roku-players/
Venu Sports Could Launch in The Next Few Weeks As Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, & Fox Put All Their Homes Into This New Service cordcuttersnews.com/venu-sports-could-launch-in-the-next-few-weeks-as-disney-warner-bros-discovery-fox-put-all-their-homes-into-this-new-service/
Sling TV Freestream Adds 11 New Free Channels cordcuttersnews.com/sling-tv-freestream-adds-11-new-free-channels/
41 Years Ago Today ABC Bought ESPN’s “Worldwide Leader” Changing The World of Sports TV cordcuttersnews.com/41-years-ago-today-abc-bought-espns-worldwide-leader-changing-the-world-of-sports-tv/
Discovery+ is Raising Its Price cordcuttersnews.com/discoveryis-rasing-its-price/
Ridiculous.
All these streaming services and companies are just trying to change cable with the exception of prices. Pretty soon we all will be paying almost $200 for streaming channels. Best intelligent thing for us to do is ❌❌❌❌ cancel all until they have no choice but to lower prices. We continue to pay these ridiculous prices and they will continue to go higher. Time to find another hobby. I will not continue to get used by our government and companies. Tired of it.
Thank you for the information you provide. I cut the cord several months ago and have been an avid follower since! Your reporting helped me along the way.
Thank you for doing all the work and letting us know what's going on with streaming and cord cutting.
Our Roku Ultra just upgraded yesterday to 14.14.
Keep up the great information.
It is much appreciated.
Thank you.
Will that be 14.1.4 ?
Ty again Luke for the info! Great job and keep it coming please.
Also, for anniversaries, the 30th anniversary of the launch of The WB Television Network is this Saturday! I still remember when it launched. Good times.
Reference ESPN: Several years ago, I heard (from a source I do not recall now) that about $5.00 of a typical monthly cable bill was for the ESPN subscription, a larger chunk of change than for any other network.
Fact check: ✅ True. I did a contract for an organization I worked with that let us choose individual packages. We could get something like 90 basic and deluxe channels for LESS than just ESPN alone. ESPN by itself was something like $5 and if you got the ESPN group including ESPN 2, ESPNEWS, ESPN Classic and ESPN college it was like $3.90. You were required to show all networks to get the bundle price. A retail customer was not allowed to delete ESPN so every year they went up. It was called the ESPN tax and no cable company could afford to not have it. Even HBO was less than ESPN.
@@realSamAndrew I bailed from YT TV in August 2020 because of that. The word on the street was the 50 to 65 a month was mostly going to Disney and ESPN needed the money for the sports leagues they bought. I bailed then.
That's ridiculous, given the amount of commercials they show. I've never supported paying for ad-supported content.
Luke I thought Freevee was going away. It's still on my my Roku. What is the time frame for Freevee's shut down or was it cancelled?
Freevee still work you connect to your Amazon account or watch for free
Always look forward
Thanks!
WHEN ARE THEY going to fix the issue of "Closed Captioning keeps turning ON in all apps" ????
You have go on the App click on closed caption start there
Luke is the BEST! Thanks bro! :)
My ROKU 4k Ultra is completely messed up. Keeps rebooting in a never ending loop. Amy ideas how to fix this?
Have you tried a factory reset? I had to do this with one of my ONN devices recently when it got stuck during the startup sequence.
I had this happen a long time ago. Does your Roku hold a micro card? If so remove it reboot and install it again. If it still happens completely remove it.
Do a factory reset and then update again. My Roku Ultra thought it was disconnected from the Internet; wouldn’t run the update. Rebooted, it completed without incident.
Just reset the TV just go to settings click on tv reset
I had trouble with the Roku update. They made me do it twice. Hopefully news nation keeps on Hulu.
I noticed with the new update that the HDR and Dolby Vision badge comes up on the left corner of the screen instead of the right.
Why can't Disney have two packages with max? Each individual, but the combo price would be cheaper than paying for them individually. Price can go up rather one, but won't affect the other one that is individual.
My prior Roku TV was bricked by an update. After the update, it was stuck in a loop that would update the system, show me the splash screen, tell me I needed to apply an update if I tried to get it to do anything, run a system update . . . I'd had the set for six years, so buying a new TV was easier than trying to fix it. Quality -- it's job ZERO for today's companies.
Im going to hold on to my "dumb" TV as long as it is remotely feasible .
Did you call Roku consumer service and acknowledge the latest tos and report that it was the last update that tried to install and report the last version that was considered working to watch stuff and if that doesn't work someone will come to your house or give a consumer service reference to the original retailer of purchase or shipping if you ordered it online and this why you should backup your Roku device to your account to help set up a new device
Cord cutting is not complete until one can subscribe to a media channel (ie ESPN) without having to subscribe to a media venue.
Live TV now times out with the new update. I don’t like that because I like to sleep with the television on.
Luke, why is CBS a holdout on many streaming services?? Such as Sling Blue has ABC NBC and FOX but no CBS.
Sling Blue where I am doesn't offer any of the above networks.
@@g0989 In my area, there's only FOX...
CBS is on Paramount Plus. That's the only reason I subscribe to it. Perhaps this is why... don't know for sure.
Their Trivia game is fun but i really wish they would give us a choice of different subjects other than Entertainment. Sports, History , General Knowledge would all be great. Give us other choices.
Since this update, my older Roku TV will not connect to the internet with out a reboot everytime.
Do a factory reset and run the update again.
I Wanting rounded corners on the Apps too much to ask? The Apps looks so cheap and cut out of a paper look. The rounded corners looks like they put effort as well as a shadow on each app.
Is Disney plus shutting in February 2025
Why would Disney do that
Is discovery plus shutting down in February 2025
Hmm why
2025 Luke
why no VPN apps allowed apple tv fire ube stick can be ?...
Just wanted to let you know that TH-cam TV took off the channel that was showing Portland Blazers games off their service. It was a local channel called KUNP.
14.1.4?
My remotes won't work now.... hummmm
wondering how much MLB. NFL will be blocked with this merger
My daily trivia don't work
I need ruku to show my blink camera
I know Alexa devices do and smart phones. I have Blink cameras.
You're SOL on that. There apparently was a Blink app for Roku as late as April of last year, but I found no such animal on my Roku. You can view Blink cameras via Fire TV cubes or sticks, or get one of Roku's own cameras, but it seems Blink integration with Roku is a think of the (recent) past.
@@NightHawke yeah that's what I'm finding
I’d pay for Venue Sports if they included your RSN, not worth it otherwise.
So what is the number for update because I have 14.1.4 Build 7709
That's the correct number for the latest update. My Roku TV didn't automatically update so, I did it manually and, the number is exactly what you posted.
update sucks netflix app is still broken
Disney is taking over all the Networks 😂 Streaming or otherwise!
Finally hooked an antenna to my Roku tcl TV. I scan & pick up 47 channels & the over-air & streaming channels are separated on the live TV guide but then later when I go back to watch live TV, the antenna channels are gone til I rescan again. Is this a bug? Has anybody else experienced this?
Yeah, it's a common problem. I wasn't able to have both streaming and antenna on Live TV, had to hide streaming channels under “Settings/TV Inputs/Manage Channels/Hide Streaming Channels” for Live TV, then rescan the antenna channels. That was stable, I got the antenna channels and they didn't go away.
Not that big a deal, as you can add similar streaming channels via app (Roku Channel, Xomo, Tubi, TCL Channel, etc). They pretty much offer the same stuff. If anyone comes up with a way to have both, fill me in.
Go go back scan it again after you adjust your antenna. This time try click on antenna and cable
Ditto. My Roku tv will show over the air when first turned on but once I hit guide, it goes to streaming only. Have to turn off and on again to get back to over the air watching.
I really hope this Ruku update works. The last few updates didn't play well with Tablo. The last took a week just for a work around for my main TV, and took another few weeks for the rest. Not real impressed with their updates. As for Venu, it is way overpriced. I guess they have to pay for their over payed SEC and BIG both of which I don't watch. Im OTA and tired of being force fed the SEC and BIG on the major networks. It would be nice to watch my favorite teem, that are normally viewed on the lower channels, but not at that price.
Discovery plus I had for awhile and liked, but found most of the shows i was after were on services I had, so I dropped it.
Congrats on the years of cord cutting news
Yeah, I dropped Discovery+ because whatever content on it I was interested in was duplicated on Max, which I had subscribed to with the Black Friday deal.
This... I feel like a lot of people miss this. When I dug deep, I was able to cancel 3 services due to overlap. The content was available through other premium services I already paid for.
Does anyone really watch cbs, nbc, and abc? Cut the cable. Haven't missed it over two years now.
New update means more problems.
venu will fail not enough subs are going to pay 45 dollars a month and still have to watch commercials.
I like ABC me guy discovery sure I just want energy is special video wanted to see it so
Ugh, ESPN isn't worth watching anymore. It's all socio-political agenda and not enough straight-up sports coverage. I miss the Sportscenter of 10-20 years ago.
My Roku Ultra has the 14.1.4 update, but I never did see the kids' section before or after. I turn off everything I can on the Home screen, but I see no kids' section option there.
Your TH-cam ads don't sit well with my browsers. You can try to make all the money you want. There's always a way to defeat you. How about trying to get a job?
Disney bought Hulu outright, I dumped Hulu. Disney owns the majority of Fubo, I will never again get Fubo. Disney is woke poison!!
What this woke word people love throwing around. Where did it start who started it .what does woke mean ?
Good for you....idiot. woke is so much better than MAGA hater and lies!!
@matthewgandy9774 it means that it pushes a progressive agenda. Typically a lgbtq, anti-family theme.
I call it FUBAR. Fouled Up Beyond All Repair. 🧑🔧
@@matthewgandy9774 I think it means politically aware of social issues and injustices. It started in the Black Lives Matter movement. According to Wikipedia.
Didn’t know Bruce Willis had a TH-cam channel. 😏