stevedog1 wrote:I have over 100 channels ( from just downloading them to see how they were and never deleted them!) and I've never had any issues in regards to memory. Perhaps if your trying to download all 300 available channels (currently) then you might have a problem. I personally do not see that ever happening in my household, especially since there's only a few that I actually watch Iike Facebook (to view pictures) Netflix, Crackle (free movies/tv shows), MLBTV (paid subscriptions), Pandora (music on my surround sound system) and YouTube (web videos).

When on long trips, I hook up to our dual headrest monitors (the DVD ones from Walmart) to my Roku using the standard video/audio jacks, and connect to my cellular hotspot for the kids to watch Netflix while on the road (using a dc/ac inverter to power the Roku, they both fit nicely under the passenger side seat).

These things are great and so portable you can bring them anywhere for entertainment.

GREAT IDEA!!

donatom3 wrote:No, $79.99 is the XD, the HD is $69.99. All of the Roku 2s can play games but you need the bluetooth motion remote which comes standard on the Roku XS and is $30 extra once it's available for sale.

Not according to Roku's website which compares their 3 models, 1080p starts at $79.99

The "HD" model for $59.99 is only 720p



http://shop.roku.com/

alpayton wrote:I bought a Roku for my husband last Christmas and we both love it! The Netflix interface is much more usable on the Roku than it is on my Pansonic Blu-ray player. When Netflix announced the price hike I considered dumping them, but I don't think my husband will want to give it up!! We don't use a ton of the additional channels, but I do have a kid that is into anime and he really likes the Crunchy Roll channel.

Crunchyroll channel?! So much better than Netflix or Hulu for watching anime. I'm sold!

I'm gonna jump on with the praise for the Roku!

For all of you who have had negative experiences using tv or blu-ray devices for streaming netflix and other services, this device is the cure! It does what it does great.

I bought two Roku's for Christmas gifts last year, one for a friend and one for my Mom. They are both used daily and have turned into one of those 'can't live without' devices. The choice of services available is unmatched, it is VERY easy to use even for the technically, even the three year old at my friend's knows how to use it to watch cartoons on netflix. My Mom loves the ability to view her Picasa web albums of her grandkids on the TV and have them stream as a slideshow when the device is unused for awhile. Even though my Mom has an older non-hd TV im her room the picture still looks great and all the text is readable.

While I am well aware there is the Roku 2, and you won't be able to play Angry Birds and the like on this one, for $45 this is still a great device for many users (especially those with non 1080p TV's or older Non-HD TV's). I may get one of these for when I pic up a second cheap TV for my bedroom and replace my Sony Dash.

This is one of those products that it is hard for me to find flaws with which is rare these days.

Got one for the bedroom. Going to cancel my Netflix 1 DVD plan and just stick with streaming. Hope it gets better with the price increase

stevedog1 wrote:Not according to Roku's website which compares their 3 models, 1080p starts at $79.99



http://shop.roku.com/

You know the HD that woot is selling here only goes up to 720p as well right? Hence why I compared the cheapest Roku 2 in price to this deal. I still bought one of these from today's woot since the price makes it to attractive to pass up for my other tv.

How hard is it to set up the Wireless? My WiFI network is set up with WPA2 and a 63 character password. (Yes, friends are welcome on my network. Freeloaders are unwelcome) Can I hook up my laptop and access the WiFi settings there?

blutoes wrote:Crunchyroll channel?! So much better than Netflix or Hulu for watching anime. I'm sold!

I'm reading at Crunchyroll's forum that they haven't encoded much of their anime for 720p on the roku yet. Apparently they have to do a separate encoding for Roku vs what they do for the main channel and Boxee.

Would someone please look at their Roku 2 (or the Roku 1) and see if it supports 220 (110-240 on the adapter) I'm currently deployed and I would love to pick something like this up without having to stick it on a transformer! Thanks for looking

donatom3 wrote:You know the HD that woot is selling here only goes up to 720p as well right? Hence why I compared the cheapest Roku 2 in price to this deal. I still bought one of these from today's woot since the price makes it to attractive to pass up for my other tv.

Yes, I know that and stated that in another previous comment. I was referring to your $69.99 model that doesn't exist. All of their models are "hd" quality, but if you want 1080p you need to at least spend $80, so I assumed that's what you were referring to since there wasn't a 69.99 model available.

Anyways, in for 2 more. They will be sold out before lunch time so get em while you can.

ZLoth wrote:How hard is it to set up the Wireless? My WiFI network is set up with WPA2 and a 63 character password. (Yes, friends are welcome on my network. Freeloaders are unwelcome) Can I hook up my laptop and access the WiFi settings there?

R u srius?

Talk about over kill

midasnyc wrote:Now that Netflix has raised it's price by 60%, what exactly is the point of buying this thing? Maybe Amazon will step into the void, but it hasn't yet. Other than those two, there's nothing on Roku worth owning it for.

They didn't raise the price, it's still $8/mo.

stevedog1 wrote:I have over 100 channels ( from just downloading them to see how they were and never deleted them!) and I've never had any issues in regards to memory. Perhaps if your trying to download all 300 available channels (currently) then you might have a problem. I personally do not see that ever happening in my household, especially since there's only a few that I actually watch Iike Facebook (to view pictures) Netflix, Crackle (free movies/tv shows), MLBTV (paid subscriptions), Pandora (music on my surround sound system) and YouTube (web videos).
When on long trips, I hook up to our dual headrest monitors (the DVD ones from Walmart) to my Roku using the standard video/audio jacks, and connect to my cellular hotspot for the kids to watch Netflix while on the road (using a dc/ac inverter to power the Roku, they both fit nicely under the passenger side seat).

These things are great and so portable you can bring them anywhere for entertainment.

How can you get enough wireless streaming data to watch a movie?

ZLoth wrote:How hard is it to set up the Wireless? My WiFI network is set up with WPA2 and a 63 character password. (Yes, friends are welcome on my network. Freeloaders are unwelcome) Can I hook up my laptop and access the WiFi settings there?

Are you kidding me?? I have standard 10 character WEP and has never been hijacked.

Anyways, No, can't set up wireless through PC, you must set it up on the Roku. Good luck with that.

brianh81 wrote:I bought two of these on a previous woot. One of them works great, but the other one has issues with the IR sensor for the remote. As crazy as this sounds, the effective distance of the remote reduces as the box warms up, to the point that you have to be within about 12 inches from the front for it to work. The box was under my plasma tv and so I thought perhaps the sensor was being swamped with IR from the tv, but the problem didn't go away after moving the box.

So anyway, I do love my roku box, even when i have to get a little close to use it. Simple and effective access to streaming content.

It sounds like the IR sensor is bad. You can probably replace it with one from an old DVD player.

stevedog1 wrote:Yes, I know that and stated that in another previous comment. I was referring to your $69.99 model that doesn't exist. All of their models are "hd" quality, but if you want 1080p you need to at least spend $80, so I assumed that's what you were referring to since there wasn't a 69.99 model available.

Anyways, in for 2 more. They will be sold out before lunch time so get em while you can.

My bad, the Roku 2 HD is $69.99 at Amazon and $59.99 at Roku.com I see where the confusion started.

therlog wrote:I got one for my dad and he loves it. I might pick one up just because his Roku streams Netflix so much better than my TiVo series 3. FYI - there are also roku "secret channels". Enter a code and stream things like CNN and BBC for free.

http://www.roku-channels.com/

PS - Someone has created a Woot channel!

So how do you add those channels?

stevec5000 wrote:How can you get enough wireless streaming data to watch a movie?

I'm not sure what you mean, but I'll try to answer. My Cellular connection outputs 1-1.5mbps when used as a hotspot in 3G mode and between 10-30mbps in 4g mode. Easily streams Netflix as long as I have a data connection, and buffers enough that when I go through a tunnel and lose signal that it doesn't interfere with the actual viewing of the movie.

Good timing - I've been having trouble hooking up a Mac Mini in our bedroom to an older TV(CRT HD TV.... big pimping). DVI to Composite, Component, and S-Video and no luck. The TV doesn't have HDMI, so the Roku will do everything I'd like it to and through the component. It'll be nice to have another option for NBA League Pass and Netflix. The Mac Mini will go into my media room for whatever reason.

Bought this here. Never could get the wi-fi to work correctly, so I'm wired in. Love Roku. Totally worth it.

donatom3 wrote:My bad, the Roku 2 HD is $69.99 at Amazon and $59.99 at Roku.com I see where the confusion started.

No problem. It's just a discussion. I hope you enjoy your new Roku as much as our family does.

stevec5000 wrote:So how do you add those channels?

You log into your web account at ROKU and enter the key words and BAM your Roku gets the channel. PLEX looks awesome... go enter PLEX to get the channel, load the PLEX server on a PC/MAC/LINUX (like a Squeezebox Server) and you get something like a BOXEE with more content from the internet and your local files. Presently only video, music and pix to follow soon.

Just out of curiosity, I tried to purchase the new Roku 2 from their website..... by the time they get done adding $10 shipping and taxes, the bill for the basic $59.99 Roku HD was going to be $75...... I said forget it, and ordered the Woot one instead.... who needs the new 'blazing fast GPU' if it's going to be another $30 bucks.... Sheeesh.

Thanks, Woot!, for not gouging us on taxes and shipping.... means a lot to us folks out here.

aiiaznsk8er wrote:I have some questions:
Do you have to pay for Hulu Plus to stream it on the Roku?
What is their app store like?
Can I stream content to it that is on my home network like personal photos and video?

Yes, Hulu + is the same price as Netflix but it's useless, all they have are old b/w movies nobody would want to watch and clips of TV shows but not the actual shows.

ZLoth wrote:How hard is it to set up the Wireless? My WiFI network is set up with WPA2 and a 63 character password. (Yes, friends are welcome on my network. Freeloaders are unwelcome) Can I hook up my laptop and access the WiFi settings there?

Congrats on being secure! Unfortunately, you'll have to enter your password using the remote interface, but you'll only have to do it once.

I have the channel issue with one of my boxes. I can only get about 23 channels before it tells me I can't add any more. Customer service was no help. Haven't had any problems with the others, although I've seen a number of other people with the same issue on the forums. I think it depends on which version of the box you have.

stevedog1 wrote:I have over 100 channels ( from just downloading them to see how they were and never deleted them!) and I've never had any issues in regards to memory. Perhaps if your trying to download all 300 available channels (currently) then you might have a problem. I personally do not see that ever happening in my household, especially since there's only a few that I actually watch Iike Facebook (to view pictures) Netflix, Crackle (free movies/tv shows), MLBTV (paid subscriptions), Pandora (music on my surround sound system) and YouTube (web videos).

really OLD hardware tecspecsh...
10/100 Ethernet with
wireless G...??/ ;0
come on..

jebalaya wrote:i have a curiosity. i dont use a router and i have a comp and xbox. i switch back and forth on the cable modem all the time. is the Roku pretty simple like that or is it complicated each time you disconnect and reconnect it to the modem?

Get a cheap router with 4 port hub, $4.99 at Goodwill.

In for one. I'd been thinking about getting another one to use with my old SD set and this older model seems to fit the bill.

im in for one. been thinking of getting a second PS3 for the bedroom to do local network streaming and netflix, so it seems like this will do the trick.

if i cant do the local network streaming, im sure i wont miss too much, netflix and the extra channels im sure will be enough for my bedtime tv watching.

and yes, i searched everywhere, didnt find a better deal price wise.

Add a Playon channel to Roku. Playon has Hulu, the free version. Cool!

stegyfrany wrote:Just out of curiosity, I tried to purchase the new Roku 2 from their website..... by the time they get done adding $10 shipping and taxes, the bill for the basic $59.99 Roku HD was going to be $75...... I said forget it, and ordered the Woot one instead.... who needs the new 'blazing fast GPU' if it's going to be another $30 bucks.... Sheeesh.

Thanks, Woot!, for not gouging us on taxes and shipping.... means a lot to us folks out here.

Yeah, shipping is free through Roku.com only on the $79.99 and $99.99 models. So basically it's their way of getting you to purchase their $80 model since after shipping/fees you'll be paying that anyways with the $60 model.

Fountain3586 wrote:GREAT IDEA!!

Thanks been doing it for years!! Also great with projectors for backyard movies at night.

cplaw wrote:Yes. Roku has a great news service with programming from many major news sources.
Many podcasters, such as TWIT, provide programming for free.

Pandora can be streamed through your home video system.

For the price of this box, you have great additional functionality for nearly nothing for your video system.

How do I add TWIT? I didn't see it listed in the Roku store.

orangeboxpwn wrote:really OLD hardware tecspecsh...
10/100 Ethernet with
wireless G...??/ ;0
come on..

I know right....everyone has a 300mbps home Internet connection nowadays!!

*sarcasm*

Would streaming with this be faster than with a PS3? I'm very disappointed at how often I have to buffer with the PS3

stevedog1 wrote:I'm not sure what you mean, but I'll try to answer. My Cellular connection outputs 1-1.5mbps when used as a hotspot in 3G mode and between 10-30mbps in 4g mode. Easily streams Netflix as long as I have a data connection, and buffers enough that when I go through a tunnel and lose signal that it doesn't interfere with the actual viewing of the movie.

What I mean is a little bit of data is insanely expensive. On T-mobile I only get about 30mb per day for $1.49 on my cell. They also have a plan for 1Gb/mo, enough for a couple movies but it costs $50/mo!

emehew wrote:I love my Roku and was thinking of getting another for my bedroom. At this price, I'll get 2! As I understand it, only the home delivery Netflix is going up in price, the streaming will stay the same price. Kidlet is a great channel and it's free to stream on Roku.

Well you are wrong about pricing of Netflix!!!

ryancooke wrote:Would streaming with this be faster than with a PS3? I'm very disappointed at how often I have to buffer with the PS3

Should be the same. If your PS3 buffers frequently then your Internet connection is at fault, not the PS3. Your PS3 should at least be receiving 1-2mbps to not have to continuously buffer. Check your Internet connection settings on your PS3 and use the menu options to "test connection" to see what your throughput is.

My PS3 buffers only when the movie starts and only then.

adhbr wrote:Well you are wrong about pricing of Netflix!!!

Netflix streaming package is now $7.99 under the new pricing. If you want DVD (1 at a time) it is an additional $7.99.

Prior to the price change, it was $9.99 for both, but streaming only has not increased in price.