Can somebody explain Roku

[Levibooty]

Do you have to subscribe to a service to acquire channels to watch?

Does it offer most the channels available on Directv?

Do you have to have cell phone service?

Will it work with Ooma?

If you are stuck with slow speed DSL does that affect the stream quality?

 

[cricket3]

A Roku is like a cable box, not a cable package, unless you give it something to play it doesn't do anything.

 

[catsfanbgky]

Get a Amazon Fire Stick, pay a black dude at a barber shop $30 he will program all kinds of apps for anything. PPV's, new movies, Netflix, pay channels. Lots of freebies. $39.99 for the stick, $30 for program, $65 investment. Kodi is really useful.

 

[Crushgroove]

They are small devices in every bedroom of your house that offer little more than sucking wifi bandwidth.

If you have TWC, the TWC app does not work with the Amazon Fire Stick (it may be that it isn't even offered) unless you jailbreak the stick and use some half-breed hack app install. Just FYI.

 

[Hank Camacho]

Paging Joey Rupption.

 

[UKserialkiller]

 

[CrittendenWildcat]

Do you have to subscribe to a service to acquire channels to watch?

Does it offer most the channels available on Directv?

Do you have to have cell phone service?

Will it work with Ooma?

If you are stuck with slow speed DSL does that affect the stream quality?

• Apps like Netflix and Hulu, yes, but there are others like Crackle and Youtube that do not.
• Not even close.
• No.
• Ooma telephone and Roku box for video - I don't know of any overlap, two different technologies, operate independently of one another.
• Yes, bandwidth is crucial to video quality. But I used to have 4.5 mbit down DSL service and Netflix and other services on a similar media player looked very good pulling about 2.8 mbit.

...and if there is any way to hardwire your internet connection with ethernet cable rather than use the built in wireless, do it. You will appreciate how much quicker the videos start.

Get a Amazon Fire Stick, pay a black dude at a barber shop $30 he will program all kinds of apps for anything. PPV's, new movies, Netflix, pay channels. Lots of freebies. $39.99 for the stick, $30 for program, $65 investment. Kodi is really useful.

Alternatively, cut out the middleman and look at the MXQ Pro with S905 processor on Amazon. As little as $30, and comes pre-loaded with Kodi and lots of plugins. But the tech-averse should probably stay away, and you DEFINITELY want to hardwire because wireless is miserable. Nice toy if you like to tinker with tech toys as I do.

 

[Clive Gollings]

You guys are brutal.

Just google kodi videos and go to the box that allows you to choose most recent first.

 

[domino79]

A Japanese poem consisting of three lines, their syllabic structure being five, seven and five.

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

It's jut a box that plugs into your TV to watch streaming video like YouTube and Netflix, for example.

 

[jtrue28]

What ever happened to Hermmdawg, or whatever in the **** his name was?

 

[LineSkiCat14]

What does it mean to "cut" your cable?

 

[joeyrupption]

This link explains Roku very well.

 

[School boy]

What does it mean to "cut" your cable?

It means you went dumb for giving up cable or Directv, or Dish.

 

[TruBluCatFan]

What does it mean to "cut" your cable?

Euphemism for what happens to boy Jewish babies after birth.

 

[HICATFAN]

What does it mean to "cut" your cable?

It's elective- just make sure you are not desiring to have more kids...:joy:

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