Advisory on Roku TV's

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Originally Posted by Jimkobb
Alarmguy, Sling is my only pay channel. And it has just a few channels on it that I watch. I did have Direct TV and dropped that so I am saving some money. Most of my TV watching is over the antenna local stations.That said I work second shift and don`t watch a huge amount of TV. That said , my current bike is a 17 Kawasaki 650 Versys LT. It replaced my Road Star , which replaced my Vstar 1300. Quite different ,but I like it.


Yes, you have been through a few bikes ! Still on my 14 Road King which replaced my vstar 1300. I very well may keep the Road King until the day I give up riding, at this point, nothing else appeals to me as much as I would like something too!

Our pay TV is Netflex and Hulu, total bill per month is less then $25, have hundreds and hundreds of channels from all different sources including over 25 through our attic antenna which of course is our local FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS>.
 
Originally Posted by JustinH
They get slow and obsolete.

Hmm... the Roku 3 I bought at the beginning of 2015 is still running just as fast as it used to when it was new. Other than not supporting 4K content, it works perfectly fine.
 
Originally Posted by alarmguy
Originally Posted by Brigadier
Not a big fan of Roku. We have had two Roku units brick themselves during updates, and my current one, a Roku 3, keeps rebooting during Hulu Live. So they can't get the app correct. Hulu Live works perfectly with my FireStick.


Im not being a smart a__ but something is wrong in your house. :o) 2 Roku brick themselves? a 3rd one rebooting ?
Ummm ... something wrong in your house.

Never had an issue with one, still dont, weve been using them since before most people knew the Roku word, have had Roku players in our home for 8 or more years ago, I think since around 2009.
Most dependable wi-fi device I ever owned and HIGHLY recommend them.

4 currently in our home including now, a new 4K model, daughter has one in her home and also used one of our older ones throughout her college years. But not only that, it wouldnt be one of the top rated players in the USA.


Right. Our house is the issue, not crap Rokus. Whatever. Fanboys.....
 
Originally Posted by Jimkobb
Alarmguy, Sling is my only pay channel. And it has just a few channels on it that I watch. I did have Direct TV and dropped that so I am saving some money. Most of my TV watching is over the antenna local stations.That said I work second shift and don`t watch a huge amount of TV. That said , my current bike is a 17 Kawasaki 650 Versys LT. It replaced my Road Star , which replaced my Vstar 1300. Quite different ,but I like it.



Perfect timing for this thread.

Our DirecTV billing cycle ends a week from tomorrow on the 14th. Other than a few programs my wife DVRs so she can fast forward through the commercials, we don't watch much network/cable TV offerings. So DirecTV is coming out. We have a Roku Stick + we've been using for Netflix and Amazon Prime. We're cutting the cord and going with Roku moving forward. We're going to give Sling a try since it carries the few stations my wife likes. Just ordered another Roku Stick + for the bedroom TV. Our biggest fear is the ability to watch two TVs at the same time relying on the Roku sticks since we are fed via DSL. We do get approximately 16 MBPS download speeds verified by some of the on-line speed checkers. Fortunately we aren't far from the internet field switching unit. I was told by a phone company tech we would need at least 5 mbps per TV for Roku to work without any speed issues. That leave us about a 5-6 mbps buffer. Does this sound about right? I tried to follow the discussions on the 4k TVs but I honestly can't grasp it but I don't think that would be an issue for us. Hope I'm not wrong. For what it's worth, our first TV (b&w) was a square, metal box with four skinny metal tube-like legs. The picture was horrible but boy did we feel like royalty for having it.
 
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Originally Posted by Sierra048
Our biggest fear is the ability to watch two TVs at the same time relying on the Roku sticks since we are fed via DSL. We do get approximately 16 MBPS download speeds verified by some of the on-line speed checkers..
16 Mbps should be plenty for two concurrent HD streams, just as long as you're not trying to download some large files at the same time.
 
Cutting the cord generally signals losing live pro sports programming here in Michigan (all except the NFL Detroit Lions) - losing favorite cable TV shows that are not available to stream their current season and the need to watch Network Shows when they air, not DVR'd for later viewing on another day.

One can buy a DVR to capture Network shows. But they do not capture cable shows for streaming or any shows, movies.....etc.... at places like Netflix, Amazon Prime TV or Hulu.

So plenty of pros and cons exist when cutting the cord.
 
Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
Cutting the cord generally signals losing live pro sports programming here in Michigan (all except the NFL Detroit Lions) - losing favorite cable TV shows that are not available to stream their current season and the need to watch Network Shows when they air, not DVR'd for later viewing on another day.

One can buy a DVR to capture Network shows. But they do not capture cable shows for streaming or any shows, movies.....etc.... at places like Netflix, Amazon Prime TV or Hulu.

So plenty of pros and cons exist when cutting the cord.


Like anything in life, everything you spend money on is what a product is worth to you. Paying companies so you can watch TV are worth it for some people. Some people spend thousands and 10s of thousands for annual seats in sports stadiums too. Some people spend well over 100,000 on a motorboat/yacht or ski boat.

1. Cutting the cable MANY years ago (we are always at the forefront of everyone) Has not limited our family in anyway at all, in fact we have WAY, WAY, WAY to much programming still, but it is what it is.
All this is because I could not give a rats a** about pro sports programming. Those guys make enough money, I dont hand over a portion of my paycheck to them, I have other interests however, again, whatever interests us, cutting my cable, my contract cell phones and checking insurance rates on everything I own, every year, paid for the motorcycles in my life.

Since I dont pay for cable, I dont know what shows I could be missing, all I know is there is no way in he** we can watch the shows we like, just to many of them.
per previous posts we have

1. Roku players with Hulu on all TVs must be a thousand or more channels, moves and programs, all on demand, so not sure about most of your statement. Pause, stop, review everything. You are 100% wrong about streaming or for some reason I am not understanding you, we stream, on demand anything and everything, of course unless it is some cable company show and I could care less because I cant watch everything that I want anyway!

2. Attic antenna which gets all major networks and all together about 25+ channels in better then cable reception on all the majors ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX connected to the 5 TVs in our home.
Main TV has full TV menu and recording exactly like any pay TV box through a Channel Master box.

3. We also subscribe to Netflex which jsut this week bumped up to the 4K service.

Its not possible for my wife and I (who work) to watch everything we would like, must be, hundreds, hundreds and hundreds of channels of movies, programs, special events and local ABC.NBC, CBS, FOX channels. But, no ESPN, again, I could care less but no problem with me for others who choose it, I spend money on lots of other things *L*

Total new TV cost is $24 or less a month, used to be $20 before upgrading our Netflex to 4K (cost $3 more a month *L*)
 
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Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
Cutting the cord generally signals losing live pro sports programming here in Michigan (all except the NFL Detroit Lions) - losing favorite cable TV shows that are not available to stream their current season and the need to watch Network Shows when they air, not DVR'd for later viewing on another day.

One can buy a DVR to capture Network shows. But they do not capture cable shows for streaming or any shows, movies.....etc.... at places like Netflix, Amazon Prime TV or Hulu.

So plenty of pros and cons exist when cutting the cord.

Hulu with Live TV solves the above problems, I believe, but it's $40/month.
 
I mentioned in an earlier response that my wife and I were going to drop cable and give Sling a try. Having said that I've learned of several other options I didn't know about that might be just as viable such Youtube TV, Hulu Live, DirecTV Now, etc... Keeping in mind our download limits via DSL (16 mbps) are these viable options, and if so what are the pros and cons, if any, to these options?
 
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