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Luke thanks for the tip on military discounts. We are a veteran family and always appreciate hearing about these deals. A big thank you to your wife for her service to our great country.
Well it's not the ads that worry me, it's the fact we will pay for it. It will be a plus service. ROKU + and at $19.99 per month. I want to cry.. I am not a ROKU user yet, but hope to be by the end of this month..
Amazon buying Roku would spell a disaster for Roku. It would send stores fleeing from Roku. Amazon is already selling the Fire stick. If they take over another streaming service wouldn't that make it a monopoly. I don't want to have to pay Amazon to watch my TV.
I would really hate for Amazon to buy Roku especially if it means the Fire OS would be used over the ROKU OS. I really dislike the Fire OS. It's so laggy, and buggy.
If Amazon buys Roku, I will move to a different device. Amazon has been turning into a seller of no name Chinese junk so we are using it less and less. Just bought a bunch of books that my wife had on her Amazon list, but I didn't buy a single one on Amazon. I gave my business to book stores that I would rather support than Bezos Mart.
Amazon needs to leave Roku alone. Roku has a lot of free tv shows that is also on Prime. I rather watch Bones for free on Roku then to have to get a Prime account to watch it. If Amazon buys Roku then Roku will not be free anymore and I will not pay for Roku. I do not even have Prime.
That sucks. I hope that Roku remains an independent company. I almost bought one on Black Friday but I wasn't sure if I would gain more content. I already have the older Google TV device with the long awkward name. I also have a Firestick but I hate it. I might give it away. I want some competition even if I dont buy a Roku. All these companies do anymore is swallow each other up until there is no competition and the service sucks.
The reason Roku IS so big on TVs across brands at different retailers is because those stores don't view Roku as a competitor. Amazon Fire devices are far less common in stores because the stores aren't stupid. They don't have any desire to push an Amazon product. So Amazon buying Roku would make Roku into a competitor and retailers would flee. It would be a disaster for Roku. So naturally, Amazon will love the idea because they are very good at spending money on disasters.
No i don't want Amazon ruining roku, its fine as it is thank you... I refuse to pay for prime and dont want to have to pay to watch what I already get for free kn roku. I dropped youtube tv when when the first price hike happened. They were supposed to fight cable, not join them
If it comes down to the face that Amazon buys Roku, & attempts to turn it pay for, going to lose a major customer base, as a lot of people in this day & age use the free services they get on their Roku
It would be close to a Monopoly and I think this is a terrible idea I hope it don't happen or else we will see complete changes in the Roku possibly even shut down just to replace it with the fire stick
I hope this is the not the case. I dislike the way that the fireTV or firestick format and moving around. I know I would never buy another Roku device.
I had to replace my fire sticks so often I switched to Roku. It is so much better. I don’t want Amazon again. Unless they take it over and don’t touch it. Then I’m ok. I would take chromecast over Amazon.
Amazon buying Roku would spell the end of Roku as an unbiased streaming platform. Censorship will immediately become the rule, or Roku would be discontinued and Firestick devices would have no MAJOR competition. Comcast would be no better as far as censorship is concerned.
If UA-camTV is going raise the price, then they need to add more channels, like A&E network and METV. I'm going to get fed up with these price hikes and get rid of UA-camTV. Then, watch only Amazon videos.
Dear Amazon, you're like Radio Shack to me, I order the 1 or 2 odd things a year, I can't find whenever I'm out picking up things. I'm not that interested in you either. Sincerely, Taylor.
Getting closer to time to cancel prime. Amazon requires the renting or buying of many of the movies they provide in addition to the yearly fee we are paying for prime.
I hope not. Amazon would probably make me pay a monthly fee to use my Roku TV! Might have to look at another TV. I refuse to pay a monthly fee just to turn on my TV!!
I'm pretty sure 99.9% of Roku customers will not like the Amazon version of Roku if they buy it. So I would say it will be a bad investment for Amazon but maybe they just trying to kill a competitor off. I left eBay years ago well I still buy stuff there but went to Amazon because of their customer service I just had an order at Amazon and I tried calling them and it was almost as bad not quite as bad but bad trying to talk to someone as Comcast they wanted to text me I wanted to talk finally I got someone and then the person barely spoken English so disappointed in Amazon. Amazon's all about making money and not giving a good experience anymore. Most large corporations no longer have customer service I would rather just buy directly from China that's where they get their stuff from anyhow. Customer service is why the company is the middleman.
Will not trust Roku after Amazon would buy it. Lost faith in Amazon tv products after they dropped Amazon Recast! wouldn't that have bee the perfect streaming device for them and they dropped the ball with that!
@@davidthompson5319 instead of wasting the investment they made on Xumo (the Xumo app is terrible. I don't know how the box works), they should have just bought Roku and incorporated that technology into their service.
I agree with people who agree with this. To be honest with you who wants to buy Amazon prime. Amazon prime is too damn expensive and we all know that. Now at the cut the price on Amazon prime then maybe just maybe some people can afford it.
@@WilliamDurant-tu3nn or just ditching cable TV entirely. I can't watch cable channels anymore. Way too many ads. About the only linear channels I can tolerate are on Pluto. If the programmers were smart and a lot less greedy, they should go back to what made cable work in the first place: minimal commercials and a wide variety of shows. They don't have to be original shows, mind you. For example, what made the old Sci-fi Channel great was the old shows and sometimes obscure movies they showed. The same was true with WTCG/WTBS way back in the early '80s. Ted Turner was getting whatever shows he could find, and, from that, we were able to discover gems like Ultraman and The Space Giants. Even Pat Robertson's CBN had good stuff to watch.
If Amazon Prime buys Roku they will probably disable the ability to pause videos and then fast forward to catch up...Peime disables that freature on it's Thursday Night NFL Football. As a Prime member I do not watch TNF any more...Shame on Amazon.
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Not a big fan of this idea…
I like Roku as an independent.
Luke thanks for the tip on military discounts. We are a veteran family and always appreciate hearing about these deals. A big thank you to your wife for her service to our great country.
I hope not. They'll destroy it by adding more ads.
Well it's not the ads that worry me, it's the fact we will pay for it. It will be a plus service. ROKU + and at $19.99 per month. I want to cry.. I am not a ROKU user yet, but hope to be by the end of this month..
@@TeamYonny Look at it this way, it's become "pay more, get less"...meaning less content, but more ads, yet you're still paying for it...
Amazon buying Roku would spell a disaster for Roku. It would send stores fleeing from Roku. Amazon is already selling the Fire stick. If they take over another streaming service wouldn't that make it a monopoly. I don't want to have to pay Amazon to watch my TV.
Will cancel Roku. Going to physical media to avoid corporate
Well better get that Antenna u were told about...
wouldn't this create a monopoly?
I AGREE
This is a disaster
This is BAAAAAAD. Despise Amazon. Hope Roku remains independent.
Last time I checked the Roku channel on my wife's Roku TV, the content is about the same as other fast streaming services.
I would really hate for Amazon to buy Roku especially if it means the Fire OS would be used over the ROKU OS. I really dislike the Fire OS. It's so laggy, and buggy.
Never gonna happen it will never happen. Amazon cannot buy Roku no
If Amazon buys Roku, I will move to a different device. Amazon has been turning into a seller of no name Chinese junk so we are using it less and less. Just bought a bunch of books that my wife had on her Amazon list, but I didn't buy a single one on Amazon. I gave my business to book stores that I would rather support than Bezos Mart.
Bezo Mart? Is that like Wal-Mart? or K-Mart?
@@TeamYonny yeah. After Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.
Yeah, been thinking about Google's device....
@zakiyahamahad7404 Will ROKU run on a Google Chrome Tablet?
Currently free (TCL-ROKU flat screen TV) but will cost us when and if Amazon or someone else buys it.
Amazon needs to leave Roku alone. Roku has a lot of free tv shows that is also on Prime. I rather watch Bones for free on Roku then to have to get a Prime account to watch it.
If Amazon buys Roku then Roku will not be free anymore and I will not pay for Roku. I do not even have Prime.
I don't and won't pay for a free subscription.. I have a ROKU account. I watch a lot of Roku videos and have learned a lot about the service...
That sucks. I hope that Roku remains an independent company. I almost bought one on Black Friday but I wasn't sure if I would gain more content. I already have the older Google TV device with the long awkward name. I also have a Firestick but I hate it. I might give it away. I want some competition even if I dont buy a Roku. All these companies do anymore is swallow each other up until there is no competition and the service sucks.
The reason Roku IS so big on TVs across brands at different retailers is because those stores don't view Roku as a competitor. Amazon Fire devices are far less common in stores because the stores aren't stupid. They don't have any desire to push an Amazon product. So Amazon buying Roku would make Roku into a competitor and retailers would flee. It would be a disaster for Roku. So naturally, Amazon will love the idea because they are very good at spending money on disasters.
Roku has had its brand name out in public for a decade or so. Everyone else is a relative newbie.
@@ejc1956 True, I bought my first Roku back in 2014.
Great.. that means I'll have to have a subscription in order to use my Roku
EXACTLY!...
@@TeamYonny Just what we all need, ANOTHER subscription...pretty soon we'll need a subscription to watch paint dry!🤣🤣
But what's in it for Roku? They seem to be doing quite well on their own. I can't see why they'd want to sell. Or would it be a hostile takeover?
No i don't want Amazon ruining roku, its fine as it is thank you... I refuse to pay for prime and dont want to have to pay to watch what I already get for free kn roku. I dropped youtube tv when when the first price hike happened. They were supposed to fight cable, not join them
Amazon buying Roku would not surprise me. I think the CFO at Roku used to work for Amazon, this is typical of how these talks get started.
Please thank your wife for her service to our country.
Amazon would corrupt the Roku experience. I hope Roku tells them and others: "Not for sale"
Why is Roku up for sale? Why i don't understand
Please make a video of stopping all the ads now
If it comes down to the face that Amazon buys Roku, & attempts to turn it pay for, going to lose a major customer base, as a lot of people in this day & age use the free services they get on their Roku
And I suspect that 100,000,000 users will drop their internet service due to it...
If anyone buys Roku they will go down faster than you can imagine.
I can't think of a worse thing that could happen to Roku. That would be the ruin of Roku.😢
Amazon and Roku?? Sure hope not.
Well if it turns into reality, u can bet ur bottom dollar it will be subscription only to have it...
Amazon buying ROKU? Wouldn't that be a monopoly as they already own the firestick?
No it wouldn’t since they are other streaming player brands out there. With that said, I’m not a fan of this happening (if it does).
I think Amazon should buy Google 😊
@ 🤦♂️
It would be close to a Monopoly and I think this is a terrible idea I hope it don't happen or else we will see complete changes in the Roku possibly even shut down just to replace it with the fire stick
Amazon should be warner bros. Discovery
If Comcast was SMART (although I haven't seen any sign of that) they would come out with a streaming service comparable to UA-cam TV!!!
I use AT&T unfortunately due to my families choice... I want T-Mobile... I think T-Mobile should buy ROKU... By the way, why is ROKU being sold?
Isn't that peacock?
I hope this is the not the case. I dislike the way that the fireTV or firestick format and moving around. I know I would never buy another Roku device.
PLEASE NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Amazon would buy Roku for the ad generated
Amazon buying Roku would create some sort of monopoly. Hopefully it won't happen.
Could be an antitrust obstacle to acquiring competitor.
I hope not.
A price hike is breaking news?
I had to replace my fire sticks so often I switched to Roku. It is so much better. I don’t want Amazon again. Unless they take it over and don’t touch it. Then I’m ok. I would take chromecast over Amazon.
Amazon Buying Roku? If so perhaps Panasonic TVs will feature Roku instead of Fire TV....
Amazon buying Roku would spell the end of Roku as an unbiased streaming platform.
Censorship will immediately become the rule, or Roku would be discontinued and Firestick devices would have no MAJOR competition.
Comcast would be no better as far as censorship is concerned.
If Amazon is gona be buying Roku, Amazon needs to put back an official Twitch channel on the roku devices, like the Fire Tv devices.
If amazon does buy roku would amazon require to switch your roku devices to amazon fire devices?
If UA-camTV is going raise the price, then they need to add more channels, like A&E network and METV. I'm going to get fed up with these price hikes and get rid of UA-camTV. Then, watch only Amazon videos.
And regional sports channels.
A "Prime" target... 😅
I got Roku cause I personally can’t stand Amazon Firestick ugh
Same here. Not sure what Roku is thinking. They're far superior to Amazon Fire.
Amazon would consolidate the operating system in the Rokus with their Fire products. In short, Roku would become Fire.
Hmm.. ROKU Fire? Yeah, that new name doesn't sound user friendly...
Amazon devices are already a dumpster Fire.
Amazon buying Roku is a horrible idea.
oooooo boy that will be a sh#$ show
My Cable TV bill is cheaper than what youtube and fubo are offering.
WAIT! What?!!!
Why on Earth, as the #1 streaming device, want to sell to anyone?
Especially to a company with such an inferior device.
Because ROKU believes thei MAIN revenue is from Ads. But those ads would not exist if a Roku device didn't exist. Greed ALWAYS blinds !
I buy fire tv steaming devices only so it’s cool if it happens or not to me.
Didn’t you say Walmart was buying Roku the other day.
I want to hear facts not rumors.
This can't be true! Roku will no longer be free! We will pay for ROKU.. This is the end of free as we know it... :(
Dear Amazon, you're like Radio Shack to me, I order the 1 or 2 odd things a year, I can't find whenever I'm out picking up things. I'm not that interested in you either. Sincerely, Taylor.
Getting closer to time to cancel prime. Amazon requires the renting or buying of many of the movies they provide in addition to the yearly fee we are paying for prime.
That list of movies where you have to pay extra to rent or buy seems to be growing all the time...
The savings of shipping cost is reason you keep prime. Especially if you buy something on Amazon once a month
@ that’s not the only reason I have Amazon.
Disaster for Roku customers. Thanks for using my name. Lower Martin
UA-cam TV shoot themselves in the foot as soon as the price goes up I'm dropping it they're turning into being no better than the cable companies
the reason anyone wants Roku is because of their advertising infrastructure.
I hope not. Amazon would probably make me pay a monthly fee to use my Roku TV! Might have to look at another TV. I refuse to pay a monthly fee just to turn on my TV!!
It is about netflix vs Amazon, it is about who survives the next decades..
seems kind of monopolistic
About Walmart plus
I'm pretty sure 99.9% of Roku customers will not like the Amazon version of Roku if they buy it. So I would say it will be a bad investment for Amazon but maybe they just trying to kill a competitor off. I left eBay years ago well I still buy stuff there but went to Amazon because of their customer service I just had an order at Amazon and I tried calling them and it was almost as bad not quite as bad but bad trying to talk to someone as Comcast they wanted to text me I wanted to talk finally I got someone and then the person barely spoken English so disappointed in Amazon. Amazon's all about making money and not giving a good experience anymore. Most large corporations no longer have customer service I would rather just buy directly from China that's where they get their stuff from anyhow. Customer service is why the company is the middleman.
In the begining of roku did Amazon help to develop it or own it?
Will not trust Roku after Amazon would buy it. Lost faith in Amazon tv products after they dropped Amazon Recast! wouldn't that have bee the perfect streaming device for them and they dropped the ball with that!
Amazon buying Roku would be a conflict of interests. Realistically, the best company to buy Roku would be Comcast
Regardless of which one bought Roku, censorship of streaming apps would result.
Comcast is also garbage. Roku can run on its own without any of these huge companies.
Xumo is like Roku so it won't work.
@@davidthompson5319 instead of wasting the investment they made on Xumo (the Xumo app is terrible. I don't know how the box works), they should have just bought Roku and incorporated that technology into their service.
No
I agree with people who agree with this. To be honest with you who wants to buy Amazon prime. Amazon prime is too damn expensive and we all know that. Now at the cut the price on Amazon prime then maybe just maybe some people can afford it.
Good morning thank you
All these streaming apps are asking too much money for their services people would have been better off staying with cable
@@WilliamDurant-tu3nn or just ditching cable TV entirely. I can't watch cable channels anymore. Way too many ads. About the only linear channels I can tolerate are on Pluto.
If the programmers were smart and a lot less greedy, they should go back to what made cable work in the first place: minimal commercials and a wide variety of shows. They don't have to be original shows, mind you. For example, what made the old Sci-fi Channel great was the old shows and sometimes obscure movies they showed. The same was true with WTCG/WTBS way back in the early '80s. Ted Turner was getting whatever shows he could find, and, from that, we were able to discover gems like Ultraman and The Space Giants. Even Pat Robertson's CBN had good stuff to watch.
If Amazon Prime buys Roku they will probably disable the ability to pause videos and then fast forward to catch up...Peime disables that freature on it's Thursday Night NFL Football. As a Prime member I do not watch TNF any more...Shame on Amazon.
Wouldn’t that be a monopoly since they own fire stick?
In Canada all women get 1 year maternity leave. Its the law, and they can't be fired either.
They would never get that by the ftc for being a monopoly Roku would be cancelled and all fire tv😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Roku being bought by a competitor means we’ll have no option for a neutral streaming platform.
What would be the best Sport package
This BETTER be a lie.
Who really knows anymore?
Very bad idea
Hi Luke next for me tv update and there will be more tv channels will come up pretty soon.
I wish Sony would buy Roku, maybe add more playstation features.
Gm Thank you
I don't watch much tv ,I'm more intelligent than that
A lot of reasons to go analog. Totally.
Freevee still working
I hope Amazon buys Roku and shut down lol 😆. Rip Roku.