Any one use Roku streaming content

[irisblue]

instead of a cable provider? The cost of cable/internet is just too high for me. Any advice would be appreciated.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. You still have to have high speed internet (cable) for Roku

We have very basic cable TV (14.00 per month), our internet (expensive, but necessary for my business), and have Roku with Netflix streaming. There is free stuff on Roku, but it is very limited. Another option is just get a Google Chromecast device - anything you wind on YouTube or other videos on the web can typically be streamed to your TV using it.

Sadly, free content seems to be becoming obsolete - we are trying to minimize what we pay, but can only go so low, sadly.

If I was to pick between Roku and Chromecast, I'd do with Chromecast - 35.00 device that gives greater flexibility than Roku.

just my opinion!

[irisblue]

2. thanks!

I was doing a review of bills and damn near had palpations when I saw the cable/internet new cost and a sorry we're gonna raise your rates again.... I currently have a first gen roku unit, plays Pandora mostly b/c the options for broadcast shows on that one are pretty scanty. 'preciate the info.

[mockmonkey]

3. Youtube channel on Roku

There is a YouTube channel on Roku. It's kind of clunky to use but it works.

https://www.roku.com/channels#!details/837/youtube

Website for movies on YouTube

http://www.bringthepopcorn.net/browse/

[shenmue]

4. I have Roku

But also cable. I don't own the place where I live.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. I have to have high-speed Internet for my business, so with my Roku 3

(I got it to use with an Ethernet cable, since that seems like a more stable connection than wi-fi), I pay for Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Acorn TV (total of $21 per month), and I watch MHz Worldview (with its European dramas every night) as a free Roku channel or smartphone/tablet app. I also get PBS and local channels over the air in HD. I have the Amazon Prime app, but really, I haven't found anything there that isn't on one of the other three services.

Unlike cable, I actually watch all the channels I have. In fact, there is more than I have time to watch, and it's all what I choose from literally thousands of movies and TV series.

A lot of people don't like Hulu, and the commercials are annoying, but it gives me the entire Criterion Collection of foreign and independent films, as well as TV shows from the UK, Canada, France, Scandinavia, Russia, Japan, and Korea.

I'm not a sports fan, so not getting live sports is just fine.