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955 Roku’s new Backdrops feature is blatantly inspired by Samsung’s Frame TV

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Chris Welch @ The Verge · 09/04/2024 16:00 EDT

Roku’s new Backdrops feature is blatantly inspired by Samsung’s Frame TV

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Roku is the latest company to lean into the trend of throwing artwork onto your TV screen, offering viewers some serene relaxation time when they’re not actively watching something. Today the company announced a new feature / app called Backdrops, and it all sounds very familiar.
Rolling out first to Roku-branded TVs and third-party Roku TV sets (and then to Roku streaming devices “later in the fall”), Backdrops features “a catalog that includes famous classics, wide-ranging museum coll

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