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We cut cable 2 years ago and have never looked back. It started with us buying a laptop that had an hdmi port. This last month we bought a new bluray player (after our old one died) ad it had several nice media streaming options. We are now looking into getting a TV for our bedroom. My question is: which is the better value, a Smart tv such as Samsung or a non-smart tv with a roku box for media?
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Is there a way to be watching a video stream on a laptop ad have it displayed on my tv through a roku 3? I keep reading about plex and twonky but it seems like plex is more for local media and twonky is for smartphones (and iPhones do not work with flash which is the type of video stream).
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Jun 25, 2013 21:47
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Anyone with a roku ever use the IPTVMYWAY channel? If so, how does it exactly work and what are your thoughts on it?
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Jun 26, 2013 06:37
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Since this is based over the Internet, can anyone, including people not in a Cox service area, get signed up for this?
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Jul 2, 2013 19:41
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Cornjob posted:eventually. right now its in beta, only for cox customers in OC. Is this the future of cable companies? Provide the content to an unlimited number of customers in any geographical region? The town I grew up in had one cable company (and still does). Satellite was still in its infancy so it was too expensive. For places like this, it could add true competition to many places.
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Jul 3, 2013 00:46
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Anyone else with a roku who dislikes the Netflix channel? I have a roku 3 and I love Netflix, except on here. It takes forever to load the episode screen. There is no auto play for the next episode. When I click to choose another episode, it takes forever. I usually end up having to go to the home screen and then back to Netflix just to watch the next episode. Anyone else having this issue?
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Jul 23, 2013 14:19
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I used my parents cable subscription to watch the Olympics (handball woo!) and the March madness tournament. As long as it does not require you to have a certain modem (time warner's channel on Roku requires a time Warner modem), then you should be fine. Edit: I was wondering. You mentioned Netflix and July as options to watch shows. What is July? Bizarro Kanyon fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jul 24, 2013 |
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Jul 24, 2013 16:36
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I wonder when they will officially cut off the promo since they never mentioned limited quantities before (I could be wrong). Do they stop it with the next shipment or any orders after the announcement? If you bought one earlier today, would you still be eligible?
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Jul 25, 2013 23:41
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Photex posted:USTVNow on the Roku works pretty well, the tv stations won't be local though. I have ustv and it works great. As for my own issue with cutting cable, my cable Internet company has put a monthly allowance for bandwidth. We were going to be capped at 250. We checked our data usage for the month of August (they only allowed this for the first time on the day we got the email) and it was 303 GB. We only use the Internet for light usage (Facebook and the forums), and then streaming (Netflix, hulu plus, amazon prime and busy) to replace TV. We were able to switch to a higher level with 350 GB of bandwidth (and it is actually cheaper than what we were paying) so hopefully it will not be an issue. It just surprised me that we use that much data in a month. (According to the data meter, 40 minutes of a kids show on netflix is 566 mbps which is equal to 28 hours of online gaming) The majority of our streaming is done for children's shows on Netflix and it is mostly background sound while we play with our daughters. Is there any way to help reduce our usage when it comes to streaming (beyond the obvious of cutting back or turning it off when you are playing)?/
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Sep 1, 2013 02:08
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averox posted:So that's where I got that extra 200 credits from! I wish I would have waited a few days to join. Just used the mobile set up too so now I can get 25 points a day. I also like the random links they give you to click to gain more. Hopefully I can add to my totals quickly so I can bring up these points! Thanks for talking about Bing Rewards.
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Feb 3, 2014 04:40
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For those of you who are using Bing Rewards to get Hulu Plus for free, I had a quick question. I just had my subscription renew at the beginning of this month. I got my subscription code the other day. Can i go ahead and add my subscription code now or should I wait until it is closer to my next month's renewal?
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Feb 17, 2014 05:55
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:For those of you who are using Bing Rewards to get Hulu Plus for free, I had a quick question. To those who used my referral link to Bing Rewards, thanks so much! This makes hitting those marks so quickly. I would say to get that information out to everyone as quickly as possible. In the matter of a month, I have gotten 3 months of Hulu for free. I was wondering a question though. Previously I had thought about suspending Hulu for the summer time when shows are just reruns. If I add my Hulu months to my account and then suspend the account, will I lose all those months?
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Feb 23, 2014 05:21
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I use my Roku and watch BBC and Sky news broadcasts. Last time I checked I was able to watch Al Jazeera as well.
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Mar 10, 2014 01:23
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Martytoof posted:I've been googling a little and it looks like UK firmware Rokus have an iPlayer app. Do you have a UK model or do you have a North American model? North American model. (If this won't work for you because you are from the UK, then I apologize for assuming you were American.) There are separate BBC and Sky News channels. Al Jazeera is through NoWhere TV. Bizarro Kanyon fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Mar 10, 2014 |
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Mar 10, 2014 02:28
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Irritated Goat posted:What are your thoughts on Ultraviolet? My current worry is older movies like Airplane! and such that don't come with codes from the blu-ray. I'm not sure if I'd have to re-buy them which is dumb or they just aren't supported leaving my library fragmented. I enjoy the idea of having everything movie wise on 1 app on my Roku. I'm wary of DRM and bandwidth usage but if it's an easy way to keep everything together, I'm willing to budge a little. I originally signed up for Vudu a while back but never really used it. I then received an email about how you can convert DVDs and Blurays to digital copies at home. It is $2 for a DVD to SD transfer or HD to HD transfer and $5 for a DVD to HD transfer. The nice thing is that if you do 10 movies or more, it becomes half off (or $1 a movie). We transferred around 60 movies in a month (and have since added movies here and there from codes). The biggest problems we have had is having a special edition copy that is not recognized by the VUDU system. Everything else is awesome (and I have contemplated renting movies from Family Video for a dollar and creating digital copies of them too but I have not yet). It is awesome to have a bunch of my daughters movies on VUDU so that they can watch them practically anywhere.
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Mar 20, 2014 05:23
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Mighty Horse posted:You might have issues here, as some rental copies are differently mastered and you might have issues getting it to ID them as well. Newer movies would definitely be a problem but the older movies (from 2-3 years ago and before) should just be the DVD set. When I worked there, we even had to go to Walmart to purchase some movies (I think Miramax or Weinstein titles) because our warehouse distributor did not carry titles from that production company(s).
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Mar 20, 2014 22:00
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I use my phone as a remote so I can quickly type out whatever I am looking for.
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May 5, 2014 04:06
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Aereo: the napster of streaming television.
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Jun 29, 2014 03:38
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My in-laws have Dish network. They come over to our house but we do not have cable at all (smart blu-ray player, roku and chromecast). When they come over, my father in law uses his Ipad to watch somethings with Dish Anywhere but he mentions how nice it would be to watch it on our tv. Is there anyway to watch Dish Anywhere (they have a Hopper with Sling) on our Roku. I downloaded the Slingplayer channel but it does not seem to give the option to watch live tv on it. Side note: I just found a Roku private channel called Nick Reboot. It is nothing but "Nickelodeon" shows from the 90s played on a random "live" stream. I just watched a Legends of the Hidden Temple followed by Doug and Animaniacs. This makes me feel very old but very young at the same time.
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Aug 10, 2014 19:35
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Anyone here have a Roku streaming stick? I am looking at putting another Roku in my home. I currently have a Roku 3 in my home and I was wondering how the streaming stick compared to the Roku 3. Thanks for any information.
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Aug 12, 2014 04:26
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I asked earlier about the Roku streaming stick but now I am leaning more towards just getting another Roku 3. Now the question is: is there any talk of a Roku 4 on the horizon for me to wait on or is it just worth it to get the 3 now.
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Aug 12, 2014 14:47
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teagone posted:He already has a Roku 3, looking to get another or a Roku Streaming Stick. We are talking about waiting until Christmas (in order to see if another Roku comes out). I can wait though. Back to another question I asked: Is there anyway to watch Direct Tv live stream (using Hopper with sling and the slingplayer channel) from a Roku device similar to what you can do from an Ipad?
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Aug 14, 2014 18:33
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I wish Dish with Sling had a way to work with the Slingplayer channel. Oh well
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Aug 29, 2014 21:30
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I used the shady sites and used them frequently. Yes, the losing a stream in the middle sucks royal. The last 3 weeks have been awesome though. I downloaded the USA network app and use a family member's dish log in. Stream is perfect.
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Nov 27, 2014 04:57
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I asked in the HD TV thread but it can be asked here: What are the general consensus on TCL TVs? Specifically, I am looking at their new Roku TVs but I wanted to hear opinions on their actual TV set up since I already am happy with Rokus. http://www.tclusa.com/roku/
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Dec 14, 2014 21:19
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We pay $65 a month (including all fees and taxes) for cable internet with speeds up to 50 Mbps (only 20 by the time it goes through our system) with 350 Gb monthly cap. 3 years ago, we had that same cable internet (same price but slower speeds and no data cap) as well as paying over $100 a month for Direct TV. We got rid of Direct TV and just use Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime for all of our viewing. That is less than $25 a month if we paid for the services. We use Bing Rewards and get Hulu Plus for free. I did a RadioShack deal and got 18 months of Netflix for $30 (ends in September). I let my little brother use my Hulu and Netflix and he lets us use his Amazon account so that is free. We use our Sony blu-Ray player and Roku to stream all of these. We have reduced our costs greatly with small purchases that are paid off in a few months. The only thing I wish we had was an antenna but we live in rural Illinois and cannot get a OTA signal. You have a lot more options that could help you save even more.
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Dec 25, 2014 16:05
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:Is there a way to customize the channel list on this player? I have had a Sony blu Ray player for 2 years and I have not found a way to change their channel list. You are at the mercy of the Sony network. It is one of the reasons why I want to get a Roku 3 and just use my blu Ray player as just a player.
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Jan 1, 2015 01:08
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Has it ever been said whether you had to pay for the sling tv if you already have a DISH account? Could this be used as a replacement for another set top box/DVR?
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Feb 8, 2015 06:22
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Call Me Charlie posted:It's a standalone service. Gotcha. If they offered it for free in connection with a Dish account, I could use my Roku and all of its channels in addition to this and I would be able to lower equipment fees.
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Feb 8, 2015 20:58
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I am thinking that in between the Roku stick and the Roku TV lines, it will still be a year before the new box.
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Feb 18, 2015 02:48
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I set up the week trial for Sling TV and after 2 days, I cancelled. The video quality was fine. The biggest issue I had was the fact that I had forgotten how much crap is on tv. TNT was showing the 3 Matrix movies. tBS had 4 hours of Friends. hGTV was property bros after property bros. Food Network had 4 episodes of Guy Fieri shows in a row. Almost 4 years of not having cable or satellite, I had forgotten how horrible the TV landscape was.
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Feb 22, 2015 21:44
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Tantalus posted:I ran into this with Dish. Call and ask for a retention specialist. You won't get the $35 again, but they will knock the price down if you even hint at wanting to cancel. This annoying part is that they'll only discount it for 6 months, so you'll have to call in twice to get through your last year. I live in the middle of nowhere where we cannot get any OTA. Your best bet is, if you have cable internet, to see if you get digital channels through the same line as your internet. We just moved our set up around and are now able to hook into our tv. We get around 26 channels (all of the locals, WGN, cspan 1,2, and 3 as well as 12 PBS channels)
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Feb 23, 2015 20:21
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A friend of mine just gave me their information to do Simpson's World (big fan). We have been cable free for 4 years now so the idea of watching every episode in order makes me giddy like Martin dressed up as Calypso. My question is that their provider is satellite so the IP does not have to be their cable provider (like TWC does). But does anyone know if there are device restrictions on it (# of devices on an account like Hulu or number of concurrent streams like Netflix). I want to enjoy this but not if it causes problems for them.
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Mar 21, 2015 02:27
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Just the FXNow Roku channel. I am happy to hear that this should work out well.
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Mar 21, 2015 02:57
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Roku updated the Roku 3 and Roku2 today. http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/6/8351299/new-roku-streaming-boxes-2015-announced The Verge posted:Roku is refreshing its very successful line of set-top boxes today. The new players have already appeared a bit prematurely at retailers in recent days, but today they're official. First up, the flagship Roku 3 is gaining voice search, which should put it on better footing against Amazon's Fire TV box. tl;dr Roku 3s will now have voice search on the remote in the new product batches but at the $99 price point (explains why they seemed to be getting rid of older stock recently) Roku app will now allow voice search. Roku UI will now include a Roku Feed which will let you know when the movies that you are following are going to be stream-able. It could be used to let you know what movies are going off of Netflix and what movies are being added. The biggest news is that the Roku 2's hardware is being upgrade to current Roku 3 specs and the price point is $69. I am guessing that a Roku 4 is still a year away.
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Apr 6, 2015 18:24
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One of the main questions I would always get was "what is the difference between plus and not plus?" Hulu now has all of your free content (8 day airings, etc). You can also pay to get access to all of those exclusive content. Seems simpler to explain. All one service, just different tiers.
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May 30, 2015 02:55
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I use Bing Rewards and have not paid for Hulu in a year. I have also paid off Hulu until March 2017. It has been so worth it. In regards to the ads, they have never bothered me as they go less than a minute (2 minutes has been the longest but that has only been once or twice) compared to 3 minutes on cable. Before I had to wait until a show appeared on Netflix. Hulu has let me watch shows the day after and allowed me to watch Moone Boy.
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Jun 2, 2015 01:10
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In regards to the Hulu/Showtime set up, I was about to subscribe through Hulu but it came up with this message:quote:You are adding a SHOWTIME free trial to your subscription today. I do not know how it works if you use Bing Rewards to pay off Hulu so be careful (I decided to try it out just through the Roku store instead)
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Jul 9, 2015 06:07
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I have a roku 3 and I am having a problem with Netflix on it. I can watch programs on it but eventually it will come up with an error message along the lines of "We are having issues accessing this title. Please choose another title or try again later." When I try to play anything else, it will load slowly to 25% and then get stuck. Eventually, it will bring up that error message again. This will last for a day or so, then work fine only to do it again in a couple of days. If I try to play it on my IPad, there is no problem. Anyone have an idea about what is happening and what I can do to fix it. I have already reset my modem, router and both roku 3's.
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Jul 29, 2015 00:12
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I did the system reset and it works again. The difference is that once one episode has this problem; I cannot play another title at all. It does not matter if I switch profiles or shows or episodes. Nothing works. Also, it seems like once this happens on one Roku, the other Roku shows it too (but that could be just how frequently it is happening).
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Jul 29, 2015 01:56
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