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Very interesting. I am curious to see what comes of the YouTube FAST experiment from January - will it come back as a wider release? Will the native channels be the same as the 77 Google TV offers in the States (these ones are in the EPG before one can add Plex, Pluto etc to it).

I also remember being excited for the first Google TV device! I went out and got one and it was much worse than the Roku at the time. I ended up giving it away to someone at work.

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Yes me too. I'm still puzzled by this Google TV live offering. Are they also mixing regular Linear TV channels?

Well Roku is one of the best UI/UX you can find, something that folks in our industry don't always get. During my tenure there, execs were complaining saying it looked poor and old when actually it's the reason why their engagement hours are so high.

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