Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
Congrats! I think you made a great choice. I looked around for a couple of years before finally deciding on the Roku. I thought I'd get an Apple TV at first. And then the spyware gadgets from Google and Amazon came out at a cheaper price (although Google has been trying to do TV devices for years - quite unsuccessfully, I might add). But the Roku is more versatile than the Apple device and is MUCH more reliable and easy to use than either the Google or Amazon thingies. I just want to watch ("good") TV. I don't want to have to take computer programming courses to get the thing figured out and working.
What's blowing me away about the Roku are the channel lists. You can literally build your own a la carte TV service (almost... we're almost there now!). Yeah, some stuff costs $. But much/most of it doesn't. If you're satisfied with being raped by cable and satellite companies to watch their unoriginal, shit programming, you don't want/need the Roku. But I like obscure stuff and business channels (which DirecTV either doesn't have that much of or they want even more $ from me!!!). In addition to all the old shows I enjoy (some I never knew about - like the ones from the UK), they now have CNBC and Bloomberg - plus they have a Wall St. Journal channel. Really happy now: I also have a PBS channel (Downton Abbey and Sherlock). The only thing I'm missing now is NBCSports for my F1 races. So by having the Roku, me and my pals at DirecTV are going to be renegotiating what I get and how much I pay for what I get. I'm going to chop my $100+/mo reality-TV-filled package down to the most basic service, that still gets me NBCSports, and they stick the rest of their "service" up their asses! :nanner:
And the absolute coolest thing about the Roku (there are so many cool things!), you can type any channel you're curious about into Bing, Google or Yahoo and most of the pages related to that search will have a direct "Add Channel" button on their site. Click the button and the channel you want (if it's available) will automatically be added to your account (if you also have your Roku account set up on your computer). Other cool feature: the private channels. There's a lot on Roku that unless you're "in the know", well, you won't know about. And since you need a code to get into private channels (whether paid or free), they can control the troublemakers. Hell fire! The more I look, the more I find! There's actually TV out there that does not suck balls! Who knew? Huh?! Who knew???!!! :dunno:
In addition to the growth in adoption of streaming players, consumers are showing a clear preference for the streaming players they use most. In a recent study1, consumers were asked how often their household uses a device to stream video to the TV. Roku is the most popular choice among streaming players accounting for an aggregate 37 million hours of video streamed per week compared to Apple TV at 15 million hours, Chromecast at 12 million hours and Amazon Fire TV at six million hours. In addition, when consumers were asked how likely they are to refer a friend to a device, Roku was the leading choice with a Net Promoter Score of 46, followed by Apple TV at 30, Chromecast at 23 and Amazon Fire TV at 15.
