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emoore7	Roku - Netflix Streaming...?	Lead	[-]
Jan 27 11 7:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Anyone have one of these Roku boxes to stream in Netflix and other things? I've been reading up on it a bit and mostly people seem pretty satisfied with it. There's another service called HULU you can subscribe to for $8 a month that offers loads of old & new tv shows. There's also some movie packages that feature lots of Public Domain stuff for $3 a year. One called "Drive-In Theatre" (or something similar) has lots of PD horror. I'm seriously thinking about getting one. No HD tv yet, but they work on any set.
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Michael Elliott		#1	[-]
Feb 13 11 9:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've had one for several months now and they're certainly worth the money. I'm getting ready to toss away all my public domain releases that I've been buying for the past several years because there are SO many stations to get this stuff from. You have Hulu, Amazon and Netflix but then there are dozens of smaller stations. Pub-D-Hub, which is free and has countless genres as well as Education shorts, Scare shorts and commercials.
GreggA		#2	[-]
Jul 7 11 8:42 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've had a RokuX for about a year and love it. Cut the cord on cable and am saving almost $80 a month.
CapnDunsel		#3	[-]
Jul 23 11 1:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	are you able to back-up anything you stream with a Roku box? Is it much better than bluray dvd players which have a streaming option? Last Edited By: CapnDunsel Jul 23 11 1:28 PM. Edited 1 times.
SteveZodiak		#4	[-]
Jul 14 12 11:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Has anyone used a tablet as a streaming device? My Vizio table has HDMI out, just wondered if it was worth the price of gettina a mini-HDMI to Standare HDMI cable. Why do I have to waste my time outwitting morons?
emoore7		#5	[-]
Aug 3 12 8:49 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, I purchased a Roku about 7-8 mos. ago and I think it is quite excellent. If I could get all networks with a simple antenna believe I'd drop tv cable all together. Unfortunately cannot get a couple maior networks in this hilly part of the country (NW WV) with just antenna. I'd do it now myself anyway but my wife wouldn't go for it...she'd have to miss Dancing With the Stars Something I've noticed...I could stream Netflix thru a Wii before I bought the Roku. Seems I can record the streams from Netflix with my Wii plugged straight into a DVD burner. I tried using the Roku the same way and I get this Protected message. No can do with a Roku.
Dale Sherman		#6	[-]
Aug 7 12 5:21 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This brings up a good question, if Roku won't allow me to record, what will? Would I be better off sticking with a blu-ray player that does Netflix? I'm very curious to try something like this, but only if I have the ability to make copies so I can watch somewhere else if I feel like it (and not be dependent on getting to Netflix to rewatch something).
classicboi1		#7	[-]
Sep 30 12 3:40 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	How does thing work?Is it just like cable.satallite?Also can i get all channels like antennatv,metv,thistv,bounce,and pbs channels,unctv?
CapnDunsel		#8	[-]
Sep 30 12 7:47 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Dale Sherman wrote: This brings up a good question, if Roku won't allow me to record, what will? Would I be better off sticking with a blu-ray player that does Netflix? I'm very curious to try something like this, but only if I have the ability to make copies so I can watch somewhere else if I feel like it (and not be dependent on getting to Netflix to rewatch something). I was researching how to make copies of video downloaded from Amazon ("Amazon Unbox") which are protected WMV files. Amazon has an option to download to a Tivo box (which must be registered, whatever that means). Some Tivo boxes have an output option so you can hook up a dvd recorder to them. Otherwise, the only way to get around the protected files is to play the video on your PC and have a program (ie Fraps) record what it sees/hears on your monitor. If the Tivo method worked with all protected streamed/download video, and you only needed to buy a Tivo box (not pay for a subscription), that would be a good solution for some of us.
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emoore7		#9	[-]
Jan 10 13 7:55 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Dale Sherman wrote: This brings up a good question, if Roku won't allow me to record, what will? Would I be better off sticking with a blu-ray player that does Netflix? I'm very curious to try something like this, but only if I have the ability to make copies so I can watch somewhere else if I feel like it (and not be dependent on getting to Netflix to rewatch something). Like I said earlier...I can record Nertflix movies when streaming thru my Wii game console. Just did it the other day.
Saturday8pm		#10	[-]
Mar 14 13 10:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	HA!!! great to know, eMoore! I'm looking into this as well ... Mac, OSX 10.4, Comcast ( humble DSL ... YEAH, I know ), Airport Extreme, Wii. I'm certain we'll have issues due to DSL, but we'll give it a shot. Now, to be able to burn directly to DVD, that's GREAT news, it was one of the reasons I was considering such a setup in the first place. I do realize that the Wii only displays at 480px resolution, but we're used to that. "Lord I love Spring! The birds, the fair weather, the new flowers. It doesn't get any better than this. HOLY CRAP! what's THAT?!?" Last Edited By: Saturday8pm Mar 15 13 11:04 AM. Edited 1 times.
CapnDunsel		#11	[-]
Mar 15 13 8:46 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	emoore, I'm curious how the dvd quality was? Was is sharp or blurry? I'm wondering if it would look any better than the VGA-RCA converter boxes? Those convert the VGA video that would normally go to your PC monitor to RCA outputs which a dvd recorder could use. Unfortunately, those boxes produce very mediocre (soft-blurry) video. Apparently screen recording (with a free program like Virtualdub or VLC) produces much better results. I have DSL which I think is too slow for streaming, so I was would only try downloading a complete movie from Amazon to record afterwards. The TIVO method (of storing the stream to send to dvd recorder) looks like it requires TIVO subscription, so that idea is nixed. Last Edited By: CapnDunsel Mar 15 13 8:49 AM. Edited 1 times.
emoore7		#12	[-]
Mar 19 13 12:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	CapnDunsel wrote: emoore, I'm curious how the dvd quality was? Was is sharp or blurry? I'm wondering if it would look any better than the VGA-RCA converter boxes? Those convert the VGA video that would normally go to your PC monitor to RCA outputs which a dvd recorder could use. Unfortunately, those boxes produce very mediocre (soft-blurry) video. Apparently screen recording (with a free program like Virtualdub or VLC) produces much better results. I have DSL which I think is too slow for streaming, so I was would only try downloading a complete movie from Amazon to record afterwards. The TIVO method (of storing the stream to send to dvd recorder) looks like it requires TIVO subscription, so that idea is nixed. They look fine to me...I don't have an HD tv, so maybe that helps . They looked very good I think. I burned a copy of Return Of the Ape Man for somebody here and he liked it real well.
Saturday8pm		#13	[-]
Mar 20 13 9:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	emoore, I'm not as far as you, yet, but we finally got the Wii connected to a wireless network. What fun! Granted, Nintendo's YouTube® channel has a lot to be desired, but there's a lot of stuff on there that I wouldn't have watched before, until now! Crow T Robot's retro edits, MST3k, TONS of crap. Many of the films are very spotty, but mostly watchable. Very surprised to see that some of the HD videos were nearly of Blu-Ray clarity. "Lord I love Spring! The birds, the fair weather, the new flowers. It doesn't get any better than this. HOLY CRAP! what's THAT?!?"
CucamongaDan		#14	[-]
Apr 22 13 1:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It seems the Roku and the analog out from streaming BlueRay players use the same Macrovision protection that many DVDs are encoded with. A company named Sima used to sell a little box that would plug in to the analog video cable between such a protected source and a DVD recorder and it would remove the copy protection. The victim was buried upright in a hollow tree trunk.
GreggA		#15	[-]
May 6 13 7:42 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You cannot record anything that streams due to DCMA laws. No content provider would allow their copyright material to be streamed without it. Also, you will need @ least a 3mps download for SD and at least 5 mbps for HD.
emoore7		#16	[-]
05/17/13 5:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	GreggA wrote: You cannot record anything that streams due to DCMA laws. No content provider would allow their copyright material to be streamed without it. Also, you will need @ least a 3mps download for SD and at least 5 mbps for HD. Well, don't know anything about DCMA laws, but I certainly have recorded streams using a Wii.
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