Re: Another Amazon deal of the day: Roku 3500R Streaming Stick (HDMI) - PRE-ORDER

There's a really good free PBS channel available on Roku too.


On 2014-03-07, at 1:40 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

And some people have been known to take an old PC and hook it up to their
big TV for Netflix. My problem with that is
- Takes up a LOT more space in your living room
- uglier and noisier
- sucks a lot more power than a roku device
- remote isn't as nice without really putting some cost into it for remote
keyboards and whatnot.
On the flip side, the search capability is a bit better.

And, yes, you can watch Netflix with your Xbox but the roku is easier to
navigate. Just like the Xbox can watch DVD's but I've discovered that
there's a 50/50 chance or worse that the Xbox can watch the same DVD that
I have no problem with in a dedicated DVD player.


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From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
To: "PC Technical Discussion for IBM i \(AS/400 and iSeries\) Users"
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Date: 03/07/2014 01:31 PM
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Another Amazon deal of the day: Roku 3500R
Streaming Stick (HDMI) - PRE-ORDER
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Buck,

There are several free 'channels' you can watch or listen to with a Roku
device. Well 5-6 maybe. And, your right, the biggest advantage to a Roku

device is you can watch it on your big screen instead of your PC.
My family uses it predominantly to watch Netflix and the upgraded Hulu.

Netflix has been said to account for 1/4 of the internet traffic. I know
that my internet speeds plummet after school lets out, even if I'm the
only one at home at the time.

Roku devices or Apple TV devices aren't the most expensive things on the
planet to enhance your TV viewing. Cripes, when you think of the price of

a simple HDMI cable alone...



Rob Berendt
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Ship to: Dock 108
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Kendallville, IN 46755
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From: Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 03/07/2014 01:03 PM
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Another Amazon deal of the day: Roku 3500R
Streaming Stick (HDMI) - PRE-ORDER
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On 3/6/2014 3:38 PM, David Gibbs wrote:

Roku 3500R Streaming Stick (HDMI) (2014)

What sort of investment is one looking at in order to watch the internet
on a digital TV? I used Google but the signal to noise ratio is very
low and I couldn't work out what the value-add is. As near as I can
tell, Roku.com is an aggregator which scrapes streams off of NBC.com and
NASA.gov et al and schleps the packets to the dongle which converts
packets to HDMI and Bob's your uncle.

I guess the value is that I don't have to go to NBC.com or NASA.gov or
whatever and I can use the big TV instead of the big dual monitor on my
PC.

I bet Roku's free service is about as useful as Time Warner's basic
cable TV plan, which is to say that I can watch City Council meetings
and the Shopping Channel but anything that normal people want to see is
Just A Small Additional Fee. I'll still need an ISP, so Time Warner
keeps their foot in the door; what's the typical bandwidth for this sort
of stuff?

What sort of money are we talking about, and once I've paid, do the
adverts go away?
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