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#1 Post by dwilsonfl » Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:44 pm

I keep looking at these thinking they are a cheap way to increase our viewing choices. Anyone have experience with them? Care to share what you think?
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#2 Post by wolfman » Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:03 pm

Works great. We cut down our cable to the $12 a month package coming up on 2 years ago. We bought a Roku for the living room and a Mac Mini as a home theater PC in the family room. We use the Roku more than the mini as we like to watch tv on our 43 inch Sony and movies on the family room tv (50 inch widescreen). I like the content aggregation channels like Revision 3 TV, etc. We do use it a lot for Netflix, but it has a nice aggregation of some lesser content as well.

For the money you can't beat it in my opinion - assuming you'll also get Netflix or Hulu Plus... otherwise it's limited, incremental value over those services.
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#3 Post by dwilsonfl » Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:41 pm

We have Dish and it turns my stomach how much we wind up paying. Then we have Netflix. But we still wind up with crap to watch. So I was trying to find a way to move away from Dish or at least downgrade.
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#4 Post by sysiphus » Sat Jun 09, 2012 3:28 am

I set my parents up with a Roku about a year-ish ago when they cut the cable. Between Netflix and Amazon streaming, there are plenty of time-wasters out there to watch, and the net cost versus an HD cable subscription is remarkable. If you're lucky enough to have decent HD OTA reception, you can even continue to get a fair bit of live HDTV free with a decent antenna...it blows me away that so many people are willing to pay for TV subscriptions--the only catch is if you're addicted to local-market sports (out-of-market streaming access is easily available) or cable "news"...if so, there aren't many alternatives.
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#5 Post by JaneL » Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:36 am

I still have cable for now, but I love my Roku for Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand, Hulu Plus, Pandora, TWiT network, NASA TV, Crackle, EPIX, etc. Seriously considering cutting the cord.
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#6 Post by Unknown_K » Sat Jun 09, 2012 3:26 pm

Netflix is great if you like to watch the TV shows they have (quite a library) plus movies. Hulu+ isn't as good as netflix to me anyway, and the only reason we keep Dishnetwork is the Greek channel my parents like and my love of HBO, Comedy Central, AMC. With a proper antenna you can pick up all kinds of over the air shows these days (better then the analog days) but that doesn't help you with premium channels.

I did get an email from Hulu+ where you save $45 on Roku + 6 months of Hulu+

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