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Just wondering if anyone has gotten out of the cable TV scam by using some other service.
Plus I'd like to know anyones experience using roku.
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roku just lets you stream netflix, hulu maybe, and stuff you buy from amazon or itunes.
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I got my father Apple TV for this father's day because he hates sitting and watching Netflix on his laptop. It also does iTunes, if you are tied to that service already, it integrates well. It doesn't do Hulu, but it does do YouTube, which isn't that great imho.
I heard the Roku is alright, but I think I want wait and see what Google brings to the table.
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google is having a huge problem with google tv being blocked by like.. every company for no reason so i think you'll be waiting a long time to see a proper google device.
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It really seems though that with OTA for regular programs, hulu plus and netflix you could keep your self pretty busy with tv for about $20 a month compared to cable wich is 80+ is my instance.
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My sister uses the Roku for netflix and pandora mostly. She loves it, but I am not sure she would replace it for television because there are a lot of TV shows that you want to watch the second they are on TV. For example, let's say you want to watch the live taping of American Idol or something.
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I'm done with american idol nerded out on it last year when my buddy won it. Honestly though except for football there is nothing I watch live I DVR anything I want to watch.
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I haven't quit cable, but I do like Roku a lot for Netflix and Amazon streaming. I consider the Roku more of a supplement to cable / a substitute to buying TV series and movies on DVD than a complete replacement.
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Teck_II posted:
Just wondering if anyone has gotten out of the cable TV scam by using some other service.
Plus I'd like to know anyones experience using roku.
Thanks.
I haven't had cable TV for like 10 years. Anymore I just use my PS3 with PlayOn I think their one-time fee is now 80 bucks or 5 bucks monthly or 40 bucks annually (20 bucks a year after the first). When I got it it was 29.99 one-time fee although for us original adopters they want us to pay another one-time fee now for any of their 'Playon Plus' content.
I use Netflix directly through the PS3. PlayOn currently gives me access to Hulu and CBS. There really is a lot of content on PlayOn now that they support directly: PBS, Pandora, Comedy Central, Syfy, tbs, youtube, espn, hgtv. There is also an entire community that develops custom plugins for other sites.
I have 2 main gripes about PlayOn:
1.) It runs as a media server on your PC and your device streams data from it so you have to have a PC turned on with whatever device you are using to watch it. This is my main gripe as I want something that is all-in-one.
2.) It does fail rarely in the middle of watching a show and you'd have to start the show from the beginning as you can't skip through things currently.
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Works well 99% of the time, quality is decent.
Does not play Hulu as if you are on a 'tv' device. If you didn't know Hulu plus actually limits quite a bit of the content you can watch as content is licensed for internet only in a lot of cases. I think 75% of the shows I watch off of Hulu can't be watched on a tv/mobile device. I had Hulu Plus for about 2 weeks before I realized that was why my shows weren't showing up and cancelled it.
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Probably could get the same type of services by just using a media PC outputting an HD signal like a mac mini or something. I know my brother really liked just using his mac mini until his daughter thought she'd see how many DVD's it could hold in its one drive 
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I did, originally just using my PS3, iPad, and computer for Netflix and Hulu+. I later also mixed in some Vudu and Amazon.
I have a Roku now but honestly don't use it that often. I like it for speed and convenience (it's always on and navigation is much faster than it is on the PS3), but I've found that their network gets really bogged down during prime hours. That may just be for me, perhaps it's just a regional issue or my Roku is already going bad, but I do have performance problems.
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I quit cable 3-4 years ago and went strictly Netflix + local TV.
From what I've heard, Hulu and Roku are certainly the next two good pieces to add.
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Over the last 10 years, I've had netflix for 8 of them...starting back when bestbuy was offering it for under $10 for 3 dvds and streaming wasn't even a dream. Today, I use it more than ever. The kids stream it almost nonstop (from blues clues to Diego). We have 3 profiles setup with one netflix account...and movies are coming and going all the time. I personally use the Roku box to stream my mlb.tv subscription and nhl gamecenter. I just became extremely unhappy with how expensive my cable tv had become and found I could find far more enjoyment for less money with netflix and watching shows online and over the air.
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The only conceivable reason I could see now to ever return to cable TV is that most of the sports I'm interested in - (MLB, NCAA reg season + Bowl Games, etc) are all moving to ESPN or other cable/sat channels. Slowly but surely it's all moving away from broadcast to pay-channels.
How much of this is going to be on Hulu+?
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Over the last 10 years, I've had netflix for 8 of them...starting back when bestbuy was offering it for under $10 for 3 dvds and streaming wasn't even a dream. Today, I use it more than ever. The kids stream it almost nonstop (from blues clues to Diego). We have 3 profiles setup with one netflix account...and movies are coming and going all the time. I personally use the Roku box to stream my mlb.tv subscription and nhl gamecenter. I just became extremely unhappy with how expensive my cable tv had become and found I could find far more enjoyment for less money with netflix and watching shows online and over the air.
I watch more TV now that I no longer have cable. I was paying something like $120 for basic, a few premiums with their extra flavors, and some HD channels. Once I dumped cable TV for Hulu and Netflix, I found I watch a lot more now that I can browse and stream whatever I like, when I like. I like how they save their positions in between devices, too. So I can pick up where I left of with my iPad on a lunch break, or whatever. No more having to worry about scheduling crap with a DVR. I even opened a Blockbuster subscription just to get new movies delivered. Though I may cancel that soon, I'm not using it as much as I thought I would.
I must be saving about $80 a month. My cable company still tries to solicit me with e-mails every month, and I tell them the same thing: I just want HD HBO and Travel Channel. That's it. Give it to me at a reasonable price and you can get something from me rather than nothing. They'll never learn.
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I couldn't agree more. People get tired of being charged for a bunch of junk they never wanted in the first place. I bet most cable subscribers watch less than 25% of the channels offered...people like me...far less than that. I probably watched 2 or 3 channels a week...and a few others on very rare occasions. It's not that I hated having cable...I hated paying $60+ for my 2 or 3 channels. It's amazing how much money you save and how little advertising you are subjected to when you cancel your cable and home phone. 
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i dumped my cable and started renting stuff via netflix and redbox. way cheaper and better stuff to choose from and no commercials
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I hope cable TV burns in a fiery pit of hell.
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google is having a huge problem with google tv being blocked by like.. every company for no reason so i think you'll be waiting a long time to see a proper google device.
Google TV is not being blocked by anyone. Google TV is being "blocked" by the retarded, proprietary implementation of Google TV.
As to the rest...
If you want to watch Netflix and what-not on your TV you do not have to use a paid service (aside from Netflix itself of course  )
If you have a PS3 or XBox there's a native Netflix app for those. (Wii "real soon now") Hulu you can stream to your PS3/XBox via PlayOn and for streaming media files use PS3 Media Server for the PS3 or XBMC for the XBox.
You don't need a dedicated player for any of this unless you don't already have some kind of gaming console. I picked up a PS3 specifically so I could use it as a media center (primarily because it was at the time the cheapest BluRay player available)
Edit: Oh and on the topic, I've been cable free for years now. Between Netflix, Hulu, PlayOn, and native web site streaming (like NBC.com etc) that I can stream to my TV via PlayOn there's no real reason to bother with it any more.
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anyone who has small children knows why the roku box is so popular...the remote and service can be operated by a mentally challenged 3 year old. It doesn't hurt that's it's always on and very convenient. it's also very nice to put roku boxes on the "extra" tv's to keep kids off mine...we OFTEN have a couple tv's streaming netflix at the same time.
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Caoilin posted:
google is having a huge problem with google tv being blocked by like.. every company for no reason so i think you'll be waiting a long time to see a proper google device.
Google TV is not being blocked by anyone. Google TV is being "blocked" by the retarded, proprietary implementation of Google TV.
When I was looking into Google TV recently it is being blocked by things. I can't remember which names exactly but Hulu, and some of the big networks were blocking access to their online flash content. There was a work-a-round initially but they found a way to block it a different way. All Hulu says is that it is negotiating with Google TV, guessing on having them only add Hulu Plus to it. Which sucks because of how much Hulu Plus removes from being able to be streamed on TVs.
I was hoping to use a google plus box to replace upstairs what my PS3 does downstairs. I didn't want to get another PS3 because PlayOn doesn't seem to work well on it over wireless (which it'd be on upstairs). I might go the google tv route anyways because it should stream the PlayOn content as well.
I'd really like to get rid of PlayOn because I hate having my PC on, wastes too much power to leave it on just for PlayOn. Maybe I need to build a fanless media PC to run it. Although getting rid of PlayOn makes me have to use Hulu Plus which removes a huge amount of content.
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