so anybody here do roku?? - TBD2024-03-28T11:00:02Zhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/forum/topics/so-anybody-here-do-roku?groupUrl=dramady&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSo with this box, I no longer…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-01-13:1991841:Comment:14468912013-01-13T16:00:06.912Zblithe spirithttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/blithespirit
<p>So with this box, I no longer need to have cable? Is that what I'm understanding?</p>
<p>I just need an internet connection, yes? Can I still surf the web when this is streaming or would I have to have another computer to do that?</p>
<p>I won't be watching TV on my computer right? If my TV is HD then I need the 1080...if I also have a regular TV then I will need a 720, right? </p>
<p>I assume if I purchase it I will get instructions on any other connections or setup I need to have?</p>
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<p>So with this box, I no longer need to have cable? Is that what I'm understanding?</p>
<p>I just need an internet connection, yes? Can I still surf the web when this is streaming or would I have to have another computer to do that?</p>
<p>I won't be watching TV on my computer right? If my TV is HD then I need the 1080...if I also have a regular TV then I will need a 720, right? </p>
<p>I assume if I purchase it I will get instructions on any other connections or setup I need to have?</p>
<p>I don't watch a lot of TV but I do like to get current news...anything else it wouldn't matter when I saw it.</p>
<p>This seems like something I might want to try.</p> i picked up 2 of their boxes…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-01-13:1991841:Comment:14468732013-01-13T14:54:20.291Zfrenchyhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/frenchy160
<p>i picked up 2 of their boxes .. one is good up to 1080 and you can use a mini sd card to give the roku more memory to store favorite channels .. i don't know if i'll ever need it or not but it was 4.95 so i got it .. the other box will only do 720 and it won't do the sd card so you can only store about 200 channels .. and it won't use an hdmi cable .. the other one will .. but my other tv don't have the hdmi connection anyway so .. who cares .. the cheaper box was 49.95 and the other one was…</p>
<p>i picked up 2 of their boxes .. one is good up to 1080 and you can use a mini sd card to give the roku more memory to store favorite channels .. i don't know if i'll ever need it or not but it was 4.95 so i got it .. the other box will only do 720 and it won't do the sd card so you can only store about 200 channels .. and it won't use an hdmi cable .. the other one will .. but my other tv don't have the hdmi connection anyway so .. who cares .. the cheaper box was 49.95 and the other one was 69.95 i think .. once i find out where all the good channels are i'll see which ones i'll really use and which one's i won't .. i'd like to get things from pbs like frontline and austin city limits and maybe sessions at west 57th st .. soundstage .. and a few more .. its just findin it all and puttin it all together so the roku can access it .. i'm sure i'll still watch regular tv for some things like news and football .. but for things that i can wait till i'm in the mood or have the time why be a slave to the clock for it to come on regular tv .. i have to be there at 10pm and not 3 minutes sooner or later.. i'm sure whatever it is i'll enjoy it just as much if i see it next week when i'm ready .. and i can stop it in the middle just like a dvr .. its the wave of the future .. </p> the roku is a streaming devic…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-01-13:1991841:Comment:14464282013-01-13T01:53:10.263ZProblemAgainhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ProblemAgain
<p>the roku is a streaming device to feed your tv from your internet ....some of the new dvd players have the wifi as well...i don't know if the players will stream from the internet ..when i am in the big city, i'll have to swing by a shop and talk with a semismart person</p>
<p>the roku is a streaming device to feed your tv from your internet ....some of the new dvd players have the wifi as well...i don't know if the players will stream from the internet ..when i am in the big city, i'll have to swing by a shop and talk with a semismart person</p> eeeeeeee.. cresty thats a boa…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-01-12:1991841:Comment:14460842013-01-12T18:19:43.224Zfrenchyhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/frenchy160
<p>eeeeeeee.. cresty thats a boatload of cash .. i have to admit that so far with this roku i'm just gettin started .. so i'm not even close to an expert .. but in the last few days that i've had it i watched a few movies and put on this channel called vemo i think which played music video's one after the other with no commercials . and here's the thing .. i put my request in for one video and it keeps on findin more that are of a similar genre so i don't get one of billybob redneck country and…</p>
<p>eeeeeeee.. cresty thats a boatload of cash .. i have to admit that so far with this roku i'm just gettin started .. so i'm not even close to an expert .. but in the last few days that i've had it i watched a few movies and put on this channel called vemo i think which played music video's one after the other with no commercials . and here's the thing .. i put my request in for one video and it keeps on findin more that are of a similar genre so i don't get one of billybob redneck country and another of ice cube or ice tea or some kinda rapper with the name ice in it .. just pretty much the same genre .. and it went on for about 4 hours like that while i did somethin else and just peeked in from time to time .. so so far i love that channel .. and i found about 5 more music channels and haven't even gone to em yet .. i watched a couple of movies from a channel called crackle and i did get a commercial .. every 10 minutes or so that was not a minute long but about a 30 second comercial .. not even enough time to take a pee ..and i know i can get netflix but at this point i want to try to keep exporin all the free channels because once i get netflix i'll probably just watch a lot of stuff from there and i don't wanna fall into that trap right off .. i got the syfi channel and i got commercials there too .. about a minute or so every 10 minutes . keep in mind that this is not like regular tv tho in the sense that everyone is used to .. on regular tv you look at the guide to see what they are playin right now and thats your choice .. with this roku and the downloadin you choose whats available and watch what you want to watch ..its like the internet is the worlds biggest dvr and thru the roku you get to access it .. some channels you have to pay for but even if you got say 10 pay channels you wouldn't pay close to 200 per month .. some of the channels will show old movies and they have a subscription of about 1.99 a year .. some are monthly like netflix which has movies and tv shows which are commercial free and i think its about 8 bucks a month .. but netflix doesn't have the very latest .. yet .. give em another year or two and they will .. i think this is the wave of the future .. i don't think this will hurt regular tv all that much but cable and satelite is gonna feel it .. we should keep this post open and as we go along we can help each other to get the most from whats out there .. the hardest thing now is findin it all cause its so all over the place .. when somebody invents a program that will find it all for you they'll be the next billionaire .. </p> All I have to say is "Huh?"
B…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-01-12:1991841:Comment:14457162013-01-12T15:39:04.400Zcrestofwaveshttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/crestofwaves
<p>All I have to say is "Huh?"</p>
<p>But it sounds like this Roku is like the radio receiver I just got. I picks up all the radio on the Internet and I now have them on my stereo in the living room. Is that what it is? something like that? I do not like sitting in front of the computer to watch a movie or documentaty. </p>
<p>I love Cable TV, but I don't think we need all the channels my husband wants on it which makes it very pricey. I love the channel surfing! I love On Demand! and…</p>
<p>All I have to say is "Huh?"</p>
<p>But it sounds like this Roku is like the radio receiver I just got. I picks up all the radio on the Internet and I now have them on my stereo in the living room. Is that what it is? something like that? I do not like sitting in front of the computer to watch a movie or documentaty. </p>
<p>I love Cable TV, but I don't think we need all the channels my husband wants on it which makes it very pricey. I love the channel surfing! I love On Demand! and DVR, but we have the tripple play and it cost around $200 per month.</p> frenchy....saw this in the fr…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-01-12:1991841:Comment:14456632013-01-12T07:15:12.661ZProblemAgainhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ProblemAgain
<p>frenchy....saw this in the frys ad....a roku HD streaming player for 59 bucks...you can phone order or online i would think and they can ship it...</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frys.com/ads/page7#AdNavi" target="_blank">http://www.frys.com/ads/page7#AdNavi</a></p>
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<p>frenchy....saw this in the frys ad....a roku HD streaming player for 59 bucks...you can phone order or online i would think and they can ship it...</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frys.com/ads/page7#AdNavi" target="_blank">http://www.frys.com/ads/page7#AdNavi</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.frys.com/product/7072581?site=sa:adpages%20page:P7_FRI%20date:011113" target="_blank">http://www.frys.com/product/7072581?site=sa:adpages%20page:P7_FRI%20date:011113</a></p>
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<p>thought you might be interested</p> I have a theory about all tha…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-01-05:1991841:Comment:14390642013-01-05T09:20:33.491ZKarin M Fichtnerhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/KarinMFichtner
I have a theory about all that. Remember when we were young....a guy would brag about how fast and powerful his car was? Well, now our cars all look the same, have less cylinders, rarely have a manual shift, and are " green". What's to brag about? So now guys have to brag about how many gigs their computers have....how many cool apps we have on our phones....how fast our tablets are....how clear (and large) our tvs are, and how many megapixiels are in our camera.<br />
Kinda sad....but there always…
I have a theory about all that. Remember when we were young....a guy would brag about how fast and powerful his car was? Well, now our cars all look the same, have less cylinders, rarely have a manual shift, and are " green". What's to brag about? So now guys have to brag about how many gigs their computers have....how many cool apps we have on our phones....how fast our tablets are....how clear (and large) our tvs are, and how many megapixiels are in our camera.<br />
Kinda sad....but there always seems to have to be a "measuring stick" in there somewhere. a good question almond .. i r…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-01-05:1991841:Comment:14386452013-01-05T08:41:58.125Zfrenchyhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/frenchy160
<p>a good question almond .. i remember when i had the video store there was a tv and vcr repair guy next door to me .. old nick .. and if my memory serves me right he was tellin me how tv sets ( this was back in the early 90's ) had a resolution of 220 lines .. and a vcr had the capability of 320 lines of resolution .. so no matter what you did you coudn't get your vcr to look as good as it could cause your tv could only reproduce 220 lines .. but the new higher resolution tv's were commin out…</p>
<p>a good question almond .. i remember when i had the video store there was a tv and vcr repair guy next door to me .. old nick .. and if my memory serves me right he was tellin me how tv sets ( this was back in the early 90's ) had a resolution of 220 lines .. and a vcr had the capability of 320 lines of resolution .. so no matter what you did you coudn't get your vcr to look as good as it could cause your tv could only reproduce 220 lines .. but the new higher resolution tv's were commin out soon and they were gonna be 520 lines which was more than double what we had before .. and then the dvd was on the horizon a few years later .. and then came hd tv transmissions and i pretty much lost track of where we were .. i'm not sure if the first hd transmissions were 520 or 720 lines .. and now they have 1080 .. but i wonder if thats the amount of lines of resolution or just another number that stands for somethin else ?? i mean can they possibly get that many lines of resolution ?? it seems they're changin the way they rate the picture quality and the higher they can get that number the more it confuses the public into thinkin gee maybe i need a new tv .. they do the same thing with digital camera's . i have an old pentax digital camera that is rated at 2.2 megapixels and i can get 8x10's out of it .. not the very best quality but good enough to view .. and now i have a fuji thats 10 megapixels .. i read an article in popular photography awhile back about megapixels and how many do you need .. and the gist of the whole thing was 6 was good 10 was better but once you got past 10 a lot of camera's couldn't really get you a better picture .. the extra pixels past 10 would just be too many pixels gettin in each others way .. and it actually gave you a worse picture .. so why did they keep makin camera's with 14 and 16 megapixels ?? because if all you had was an 8 megapixel camera and your neighbor george came over with his brand new 16 megapixel camera it would make you feel somehow inferior so to keep up with the jonses you'd rush out and look for an 18 megapixel camera .. never mind that it didn't take better pics .. you'd have somethin to show george and say yeah its 18 megapixels too .. i suppose as the screen sizes get bigger and you have more screen area you might need more megapixels .. but i'm sure there will be a cutoff point where any more megapixels won't be perceptible to the human eye .. if you were an eagle and flyin a mile high maybe .. just my 2 cents .. didn't mean to take the long way around but i thought it all applied .. </p> i was talking with someone wh…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-01-05:1991841:Comment:14386122013-01-05T03:46:39.958ZProblemAgainhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ProblemAgain
<p>i was talking with someone who has an nbox..</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/NBOX-N31-Digital-Media-Player/dp/B002N3DIC4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357344023&sr=8-1&keywords=nbox" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/NBOX-N31-Digital-Media-Player/dp/B002N3DIC4/r...</a></p>
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<p>and it seems what this is for is an interface between a hard drive, a flashdrive or a memory card and your tv...so it enables you to play downloaded movies or saved files thru your…</p>
<p>i was talking with someone who has an nbox..</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/NBOX-N31-Digital-Media-Player/dp/B002N3DIC4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357344023&sr=8-1&keywords=nbox" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/NBOX-N31-Digital-Media-Player/dp/B002N3DIC4/r...</a></p>
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<p>and it seems what this is for is an interface between a hard drive, a flashdrive or a memory card and your tv...so it enables you to play downloaded movies or saved files thru your tv....it has a usb port to accept a flashdrive or an external hard drive and a memory card slot...</p>
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<p>you could download a lot from places and then play those</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO82t4ViZl4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO82t4ViZl4</a></p> I had never seen roku Frenchy…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-01-05:1991841:Comment:14387802013-01-05T01:39:47.120Zblithe spirithttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/blithespirit
<p>I had never seen roku Frenchy...until you mentioned it the other day. Yesterday, I was at Sam's Club and ta da...there was roku...The cost was $69.99...a box of some sort and a remote control it looks like...its a streaming from the internet to a TV thing? Anyway...thought I'd share;</p>
<p>I had never seen roku Frenchy...until you mentioned it the other day. Yesterday, I was at Sam's Club and ta da...there was roku...The cost was $69.99...a box of some sort and a remote control it looks like...its a streaming from the internet to a TV thing? Anyway...thought I'd share;</p>