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05-13-2011, 12:41 PM
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Most recent thread about wifi streaming TV is pretty old, so here goes.
Just cancelled cable and got a Roku box last week. So far, I am pretty happy with it. Between netflix, Hulu, amazon VOD, pandora there is a lot of content. There are some private channels out there, too. Like Nowhere TV which is really fantastic and probably my favorite channel. We have been able to find about 90% of the shows we used to watch. Not bad! Plus we are saving about 60 bucks a month, even after paying for netflix and hulu.
Anyone else using this, and if you know of any cool apps or channels let us all know!
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05-13-2011, 12:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Denver, CO | | | Also, the xds version has a USB port that will play audio, photos, and video. Pretty nice.
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05-13-2011, 01:15 PM
|  | Resident Packer Fanatic | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Madison, Wisconsin | | | Get some red/cyan old-fashioned 3D glasses and then subscribe to the Drive-in movies channel for $5/yr and watch "It Came From Outer Space." |
05-13-2011, 01:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Denver, CO | | | Ooooh that sounds fun!
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05-13-2011, 01:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | I have a Boxee Box myself, and never looked back.
We're living the future, maaaan.
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05-13-2011, 01:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Colo Spgs, CO-I hate it here!! | | | Wow...I just looked at the Roku website....I didn't know it did all that. I may have to get me one.
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05-13-2011, 01:42 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | hmmmm. I need to look at this a little closer |
05-13-2011, 01:45 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | I've had a Roku for about 6 months now, and it's great! In addition to Netflix there's a new channel called "Crackle" that has a pretty good selection of movies for free. I also like "renting" movies off Amazon, whenever there's a movie that the free channels don't have. And there is at least one pay channel for sports--I know sports fans have often said they need cable for their games. |
05-13-2011, 01:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Denver, CO | | | crackle has old shows like sanford and sons, also.
get nowhere TV. it has shows from natgeo, food network, HGTV, adult swim. Watched a documentary about the invention of the electric guitar from smithsonian channel.
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05-13-2011, 01:55 PM
| | | | Love the Roku. Just wish Netflix was streaming more stuff. I'm watching the HBO series "Rome" right now and for the life of me I can't understand why Netflix doesn't stream that. |
05-13-2011, 03:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Denver, CO | | | well, netflix does not stream anything until it hits DVD from what I can tell. So, this time next year, your current season of ROME will be on there. Does ROME stream at HBO.com??? if so, someone might have written a private chanel to stream it to roku. check the roku forums.
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05-13-2011, 04:03 PM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MrTAteMyBalls well, netflix does not stream anything until it hits DVD from what I can tell. So, this time next year, your current season of ROME will be on there. Does ROME stream at HBO.com??? if so, someone might have written a private chanel to stream it to roku. check the roku forums. | Wait a second! So there are people writing roku channels that you can access through roku?  |
05-13-2011, 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Gaius46 Love the Roku. Just wish Netflix was streaming more stuff. I'm watching the HBO series "Rome" right now and for the life of me I can't understand why Netflix doesn't stream that. | they are abandoning physical format in the next year or so and going full streaming (I believe / suspect on tiers pricing)... Quote:
Originally Posted by L-A I have a Boxee Box myself, and never looked back. | Buddy used to run the Beta on a cracked Apple TV. Love Boxee, just wish the hardware wasn't 3 bills.
edit: now 2 bills, BUT, I am now making my own Boxee, for free. Love that. No longer invites...I wasn't aware. Thanks for bringing it up!!
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05-13-2011, 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Wait a second! So there are people writing roku channels that you can access through roku? | Yup, it's open source. anyone can download the developers kit for free.
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05-13-2011, 04:32 PM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MrTAteMyBalls Yup, it's open source. anyone can download the developers kit for free. | I suddenly got VERY interested in this.  |
05-13-2011, 04:33 PM
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05-13-2011, 07:26 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | Yeah check out the channels they have, it's like public access cable, if you remember that from the 80's.  And you can have "private" channels as well, where only invitees have access. |
05-14-2011, 07:39 AM
| | Resident Packer Fanatic | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Madison, Wisconsin | | | I don't know how, but we actually have a local Madison CBS channel on the Roku. The only content is their newscasts.
Hub Pub is also quite funny. Have turned my family on to those programs, especially those educational newsreels from the 50s like "Teen Years: Time of Turmoil" by the Michigan Dept of Public Health. Hilarious! |
05-14-2011, 08:40 AM
|  | Friends, Romans, Bass Players... | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | | Definitely going to have to look into this. It's the future of home entertainment, the big networks better be worried!
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05-14-2011, 09:36 AM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | | Roku is great. I like the stand alone box better than the built in version in the bluray player.
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