I guess a business reason for scroll lock in the TV UIs is that it immediately shows more recommendations as you scroll right, which I suppose could increase engagement.
My pc, maybe because of the external keyboard I'm using, occasionally decides that Scroll Lock is On and then Excel becomes unusable ... The solution is to bring up the On Screen Keyboard and toggle the virtual scroll lock key ...
Except the other examples used to work like Apple’s and have switched to the scroll locked implementation.
I think I prefer that mode to be honest, because it leaves you in a consistent place for up/down to take you to instead of it potentially depending where your selection is in the row.
Scrolling on TV strangely annoying. To see any more options on Apple TV you have to go all the way to right and then start going actually to the right. On Netflix can’t search easily. Have to bring everything back to left most first.
I think I prefer that mode to be honest, because it leaves you in a consistent place for up/down to take you to instead of it potentially depending where your selection is in the row.