Learn me on Roku

[IRON-E]

Bought my parents a roku a while back. Works great and is easy to use. They used it mostly for Netflix.

Keep in mind there is very little free content. You have to pay for a membership to Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu/etc and then buy a roku box to access it.

Cool, so as long as I still pay for my 1 main cable box, these boxes should suffice, as opposed to paying to rent TimeWarners stuff?

I like my Apple Tv.

I read the reviews and I'm not an "iphone/ipad" person, so AppleTV wouldn't work for me.

I've had a Roku for about 2 years now and I love it. Yes you do have to pay for Hulu and Netflix, but combined those work out to $16/month, which is roughly 75% less than a middle-of-the-pack cable package but gives to access to tens of thousands more shows and movies. Combine it with standard OTA HDTV broadcasts for all your local/national channels and you can get 95% of what's available on cable for less than 25% of the cost. It's a no-brainer.

http://gizmodo.com/how-to-cut-the-co...all-1522124125

This.. Thank you.

+1 on google chromecast. Really tho just get yourself a laptop have it hooked up to your tv, get a wireless keyboard/mouse and enjoy your porn in full 1080p.

Pffft, I get clear pr0n out of my phone, fool.

[blazinxpk]

so for all of you who dont have cable how do you watch sports?

for example, nfl, nhl, and mlb. i understand there are free streams available online but their quality usually sucks compared to HD content coming through the cable.

[ParsedOut]

so for all of you who dont have cable how do you watch sports?

for example, nfl, nhl, and mlb. i understand there are free streams available online but their quality usually sucks compared to HD content coming through the cable.

Network over the air channels air some stuff and if there is something I really care about I'll go to a friend's house or a sports bar. Generally I'm not the type to sit there with ESPN on all day long...but that's just me.

[sharky]

tried that solarmovie one and it kept asking me to register, registered on solarmovie and then it redirected to register again on another site to watch, wtf

[Farbin Kaiber]

I just don't watch sports. Pretty easy. I cannot stand men chasing balls. Not to mention showing off the (performance enhanced) virility of their phallus by smacking a ball with their big sticks.

[frankenbeemer]

Even my dog thinks chasing a ball is stupid.

[agent]

so for all of you who dont have cable how do you watch sports?

for example, nfl, nhl, and mlb. i understand there are free streams available online but their quality usually sucks compared to HD content coming through the cable.

The overwhelming majority of the cord cutters I know are not sports enthusiasts.

[GAbOS]

I catch feeds being streamed for sports.

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[ky0u]

tried that solarmovie one and it kept asking me to register, registered on solarmovie and then it redirected to register again on another site to watch, wtf

They asked you to register? I've never had to register on there. They do stream from other websites because solar itself isnt a streaming site. It's a database of streaming websites. Kind of like a search engine for streaming sources.

But even then, when you click on something, it pulls the source and embeds it on their page so you never actually leave solar movie.

Did you get this type of page at any point?


Should then lead to a page like this (shrank image for size):


The most you should ever need to do is type in a captcha thing

[ST1G]

I just don't watch sports. Pretty easy. I cannot stand men chasing balls. Not to mention showing off the (performance enhanced) virility of their phallus by smacking a ball with their big sticks.

Do you enjoy motorsports?

[sharky]

They asked you to register? I've never had to register on there. They do stream from other websites because solar itself isnt a streaming site. It's a database of streaming websites. Kind of like a search engine for streaming sources.

But even then, when you click on something, it pulls the source and embeds it on their page so you never actually leave solar movie.

Did you get this type of page at any point?


Should then lead to a page like this (shrank image for size):


The most you should ever need to do is type in a captcha thing

Yes got to the page with the streaming sources, clivkedon it and it said must register and redirected. I did the capta thing alspo.

[ky0u]

Yes got to the page with the streaming sources, clivkedon it and it said must register and redirected. I did the capta thing alspo.

There are certain sites that require you to regsiter. Or run DIVX instead of flash. This might cause obstacles for you. I stick to the sources:

played.to
vodlocker
clicktoview

I also have adblock so I don't know if that might help with anything

[blazinxpk]

The overwhelming majority of the cord cutters I know are not sports enthusiasts.

i guess this answers my question.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Do you enjoy motorsports?

Yes. I prefer live. But I will watch replays or streams of motorsports, after SPEED became Fox Sports 78 or whatever there really wasn't much of the auto racing I'd want to watch anyway on broadcast/cable. Burnt out on NASCAR in like 2004 or so.

[CabbE30]

Get a roku, I love mine. There's a bunch of channels that are of specific interests, there are also unlisted channels that you can add to stream not so authorized content. If you wanna watch sports it is possible with a subscription to whatever service, or you can go to a sports bar.