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I hate the Apple TV remote so much. Stick to Roku’s because it’s much more intuitive for me. 

I also hate the Apple TV remote. I use the remote app on my phone 100% of the time, and it’s great.
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1 hour ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Wood is English, so he could give a shit about college football, but his wife is from here. Thank God, she’s not a red ass. A red ass aggy with a net worth of north of $7 billion would be a problem. 

That would also result in your Roku shouting Whoop! everytime you used the remote.

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Well bad news, I just saw this article that Netflix will no longer be supported on 1st gen fire sticks starting in June:  https://www.pcworld.com/article/2788458/netflix-will-stop-working-on-these-older-fire-tv-devices-next-month.html

I still have an old 1st gen fire TV, so I went to Amazon and checked out options on the trade-in for a cube. I get $3 for the device and 20% off the Cube if I do the trade-in, which brings the price down to ~$80. For anyone interested, go to the cube page on Amazon and see if you have this "Upgrade" button to get the offer. Be sure to drill down to where you choose what device to send in. I did the same thing when we ordered the kids Fire Tablets for Christmas last year, it's a good deal if you have old hardware to dump.

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I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Roku because they produced the greatest comedy movie of the last 10 years in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. 

I’d have to think it over, but you may be right. That movie is hilarious.
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So they are going back to splitting the company up again.  Lot of people getting paid a shitload of money to make really bad decisions and then try to fix the decisions they made.

Most of WBD Debt to Go With TV Networks Company

Earlier on Monday, June 9, Warner Bros. Discovery announced a split that most of the industry saw coming. There will be two independently-operated, publicly-traded companies: Streaming & Studios and Global Networks. Those will be renamed at some point (and probably “Warner Bros.” and “Discovery” — again).

It is a very similar move to what NBCUniversal recently did to form Versant. Disney has also toyed with the idea.

Wiedenfels, currently the WBD chief financial officer and Zaslav’s longterm right-hand man, expects his coming company, Global Networks, to “continue to see strong cash generation.” Though cable TV is dying, it still generates cash flow — especially CNN, which heads out with Wiedenfels.

Both Wiedenfels and Zaslav will continue in their present roles at WBD until the separation, which is expected to close in mid-2026.

Zaslav’s Streaming & Studios company will consist of Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, DC Studios, HBO and HBO Max, as well as their legendary film and television libraries. The second business, Global Networks, will include entertainment, sports and news television brands around the world as CNN, TNT Sports in the U.S., and Discovery, free-to-air channels across Europe, and digital products such as the profitable Discovery+ streaming service and Bleacher Report (B/R).

In other words, Zaslav gets the cool, creative stuff; Streaming & Studios has all of the prestige and most of the future. Wiedenfels will be in charge of much of what presently makes reliable money, but he also inherits all of the downside based on industry trends. And oh yeah, most of that debt.

“Three years ago, the very foundation of how, when, and where audiences engaged with content was undergoing fundamental change,” Zaslav wrote in a memo to staff, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, in reference to the 2022 combination of WarnerMedia and Discovery. “As both organizations contemplated their futures, one truth became clear: to successfully adapt, transform, and lead in the entertainment industry of tomorrow, we needed to come together — to draw on each other’s strengths.”

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52 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

Anyone watching "The Mortician" documentary series?

That is some fucked up shit.

Yeah, it is pretty wild.  The main antagonist (at this point) is so 'matter of fact' about everything... It is comical.  

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