New Roku Models for Cord Cutters - Comments Page 1

(Roku is pronounced like "row-koo.")
Is that 'row' as in propelling a boat, or 'row' as in a noisy dispute?

My family and I have "cut the cord". We use a Roku 3 and subscribe to Netflix and (until recently) Sling (for ESPN, etc.). We also found that we needed a digital antenna for local stations.

All that said, the cable company came back to us with an offer too good to refuse... so we took it.

can you get any of the sports channels or Christian channels?

Can the Roku access multimedia that you have stored on an NAS?

I cut the cord few years ago. Dropped my satellite subscription. currently have high speed internet, Roku's 3 attached to my living room, a Roku Premier on my master bedroom TV, & a Roku Express on my den TV. They all work well with mi WI-FI except for the Roku 3 which is direct connected via an either-net cable. With this I subscribe to Sling-TV and also have a Channel Master DVR+ for over the air channels and DVR capabilities. Also now I can DVR channels with Sling for a bit more $.
I do not seem to miss those over 200 HD channels, that were impossible to watch them all anyway!

Roku is always coming out with something new making older Roku devices obsolete to force you to upgrade. Anything on Roku can be found online legally.

We cut tne cord in 2010 and never went back with a WDTV Live Hub w/1T drive in it and I put skads of our favorite movies, pics and music on it. Also it play what ever is on any device on the network through DLNA. The only trouble is the channels are hardwired in the firmware (I still get Netflix & Pandora) and they aint updating it anymore. So I bought a Roku Primier+ and it is FAST. It even picks up what is on the WDTV 1T drive! The only thing I don't like about it is the commercials and it wont play VRO (common disk movie files) so I have to convert them to MP4 or never junk the WDTV.

My Sony 3700 blu ray player has everything roku has and more.
Is there any reason to get roku?

I am still using Roku HD (Old Model) in my bedroom. It must be 8 year old. @John Silberman Roku is the device used to stream content from Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. This content cannot be found online legally for free.

At first I thought I would like the ROKU, but after ayear of use, I'm finding I am getting tired
of the news snippits with the same three commercial played more often than commercial tv does.

We cut the cable cord 20+ years ago, when we realized 90% of the time we were watching broadcast channels. Rabbit ears were just fine. I still have an antenna on my roof. Of course that's changed with some much content streaming now. We have a 1st gen Roku and a Chromecast.

But honestly, we just don't watch that much TV anymore. We usually just end up binge watching something on Netflix once in awhile or renting a movie (and we have to RENT the movie, because Netflix never has any movies we want to see. Seriously, if the kids weren't using it at college, I'd cut that as well).

Roku schmoku..read a book!

Or Bob's updates.

I can't cut the cord with Comcast as they will charge you more for internet ~ $25 if you don't have at least basic cable which cost ~$25 , so cost the same with basic cable or not.

I've been a die-hard fan of Roku for years. I mainly use it for Plex, Netflix, Amazon, Viceland, and CNN, but there is soooo much available and the interface is great. What many people don't know is there is a ton of "private" channels that can be manually added. You can get info on that here:
http://streamfree.tv/private-channels/

Onedeafey, Bob meant to write roh-koo for the pronunciation.
Does Roku get international channels?
Me, I get 66 channels with my little indoor antenna, and that is way more than enough for me.

Never had pay tv - never will.... I have Netflix dvd service and more than 60 channels of over the air tv. No complaints!

This really has been a fascinating cost cutter even the lady of the house like amazon and a few others at a very reasonable price. She still hasn't reached what it cost to have Dish or Direct both of which we tried and dumped for various reasons along with cost. We have the digital antenna and is only pixalizes on very windy times because of trees I can't shoot around. All in all we have what she wanted. We use Roku 3, and Roku TV and have few if any complaints. We lose AT&T U verse from time to time which takes out everything including VOIP. Good article Thanks

Switching to streaming services IMHO is not cutting the cord, just trading one cord for another. REAL cord cutters use OTA antennas which so far is free.

I cut the cord years ago and use Roku for almost all streaming now. However, I also use "DigitalStream" to receive local TV broadcasts (over the air), and I've been delighted by a new channel called MeTV, which shows all the oldies and goodies, such as Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, MASH, Carol Burnett, and many more. (I spend almost all my TV watching time on this channel now.)

The antenna feature could be important ... if a person is actually able to get "over the air" television channels. I, however, could place an excellent tv antenna 100 foot above my house and get ... let me count them ... uh, 1 channel, yes, that's right, 1 channel ... and that one from PBS. No CBS, no NBC, no ABC, no Fox (and I live in a City of 200,000 people (with a mountain between me and the "Local Channel" transmitters 50 miles away).