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Roku lays off 300 workers and removes streaming content to save money (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 year ago by DannyMac@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Roku looks to be seriously tightening its pursestrings. The company’s laying off a full ten percent of its workforce, over 300 employees, in addition to a conducting a number of other cost-cutting measures, as reported by Variety. These job cuts are just the beginning, as Roku’s also removing streaming content, consolidating office space and reducing outside service expenses. The goal here is a major reduction in the year-over-year operating expense growth rate.

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[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DVDs, people. DVDs and Blu-Rays.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blu-Rays generally are a bad idea. They're so concerned with piracy that they make things like ripping your Blu-Rays needlessly difficult, especially for recently released to video Blu-Rays.

Honestly it's easier to just pirate.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meh.. it's not that hard. Get something that's libredrive compatible and run makemkv on it. Not had a failure yet.

The real downside is that blurays (esp. HD ones) are too expensive to get a decent collection.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you ensure that it's libredrive compatible?

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I just bought one from ebay from a guy that only sells libredrive compatible drives. But there's a list here https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=79712#p79712