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It's a project for sure, but not insurmountable. Initially it could just be a Kodi script or plugin, but longer term a fully custom UI experience using much more powerful libraries like SDL and ffmpeg or libvlc, will be able to make it do what I truly want it to and not have to put up with Roku's nonsense and limitations ever again. I'll see if I can limp along with beta channels for a while, but in my case unless Roku gives us a break or something I'm thinking I will just turn my channel into a streaming "device" a la Raspberry Pi. I guess now they want to make it a glorified app store for the big players only and drive us all out, because they are effectively killing the hobbyists and homebrewers. But what has attracted a healthy homebrew scene was the relative ease of development and distribution, and people find the platform easy to use. And constant updates and buggy firmware, etc. I'm also not a big fan of Brightscript or the limitations of their APIs. Roku hardware has never been the best or most capable. Looking into Amazon Fire or Chromecast as alternatives since Roku's Developer instructions and tutorials are poor at best. I see no reason Private Channels couldn't remain, even if a Monthly Fee we involved for publication access. The other unfortunate part is the Dashboard has no visible means to submit the channel for Certification. Unfortunately, 90% of my viewing, and that of our audience will be cancelled in February. IMHO elimination of the Private, Non-Certified Channels is a huge disservice to the many independent, niche channels, which bring customers to Roku in the first place. The wider general public has no interest in the content we carry and the channel(s) will never hit even 1,000 hours viewed per month, much less Roku's floor of 200,000 hours. The advanced Roku features are of no interest to our audience, and monetization isn't in our interests, what so ever. For fans to watch on their TVs we chose Roku as the platform for ease of publication and ease of access to those interested.
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We run Private Channels of archived local TV Shows in the Greater Cleveland area. Similar issue here but we've got a small but dedicated fan base. But I don't know why I can't continue to use my literal private property physical hardware that I fully own and paid for in the way that I want to. I'm keeping the ranting portion of my reaction mostly to myself, because I'm sure nobody's cares about my choice words or what I really think. Why isn't it enough to just limit beta channels to 20 users, why the 120 day expiration? This change is terrible. So what is the answer to keep my own very private channel? Just republish and reinstall it every 3 months as a "beta" channel? What a sorry experience. Certification for publishing involves all kinds of unnecessary nonsense (for me) like deep linking which I don't even know how I could support or pass certification. I don't need "the public" finding it, it isn't for them. It won't function for anybody else without my customized on-premises appliance hosting the content, nor is it intended to. And I don't know how or if I can make my channel public. I don't know anything about the new IDK alternative, but insofar as it doesn't even work on the Roku TVs I've invested in it is a complete non-starter. I'm only late noticing this policy change about private channels thanks to a nastygram today telling me my "beta channel" will expire in Feb. The video content didn't come from the Internet, has never traversed public networks and never will. Literally only myself and two other households in my family use the channel. There is nothing nefarious, embarrassing or illegal about the content, but it also is nobody's business but mine. It only streams video from an appliance physically located on my private local network. I wrote and have been using for years a truly private custom channel on my Roku devices.
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