Anonymous wrote:I want to embrace hulu etc. but my style of watching tv is just to turn it on for noise and then I walk away. I just leave food network or the cooking channel on. If I have to select a program to watch before the "noise" starts, it's already too much effort.

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Anonymous wrote:Any way to get sports without cable?

I'm a PP (Amazon etc on Roku but not ESPN or cable news post)

IF your DH is from out of town, you are in luck - there are packages for MLB and the NHL - he can watch every game. I'm guessing it costs $100, but that pales by comparison to paying monthly for expanded cable. But local games are always blacked out because the home teams cut exclusive deals with local cable channels. My DH's team is the Caps, so we are screwed.

NFL is on local TV, so we watch it in HD using the little Terk HD antenna box.

Anonymous wrote:I think you need a separate streaming device for each TV, but someone more tech savvy than I should answer that.

You search for shows in a number of ways but it creates watch lists of what you want to watch/have watched, so once you search for, say, Arrested Development and add it to your watch list or watch an episode, you don't have to re-search for it.

Anonymous wrote:New Question for those who have Roku. Do you need a streaming player for each tv then? I was thinking about getting another HDTV for either my exercise room or my study and about to have DH order us another cable box. This sounds like an option to try out instead, and if it works better than cable to get rid of it.

The other question that I have for uses of these streaming players, is that do you have to search for each program that you want to watch like I currently do when I watch a video on demand on Verizon or a show on Hulu? It sounds like it would take some time to scroll through all the various machines/programs to start a program.

TIA

Anonymous wrote:I think you need a separate streaming device for each TV, but someone more tech savvy than I should answer that.

You search for shows in a number of ways but it creates watch lists of what you want to watch/have watched, so once you search for, say, Arrested Development and add it to your watch list or watch an episode, you don't have to re-search for it.

Anonymous wrote:OP here (the blind leading the blind...) My research is that yes, you can get HGTV shows on Roku, but it is a matter of slecting the specific shows you want to watch, it's not the same as watching whatever is airing on HGTV right now. As for Watch ESPN, it appears that this is and app that allos Roku to connect you to your cable ESPN channell.... I don't see the value in that since you have to have a cable pkg with ESPN to use WatchESPN on Roku!

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe you have to have a separate Roku box for each tv or device.

My research is that HuluPlus has the current season of tv shows on it (although they would be delayed by a day or more from when they aired) (compared to Netflix -- which tends to have prior seasons, but not the current season). I read that one had a better interface (making it easier to pick your shows -- now I can't remember whether it was Netflix or Hulu... sorry).

The sports thing is going to be the reason we stay with cable.... maybe someday in the future, ESPN will be a paid service and then we'll switch to Roku/Hulu/Tivo/something!

Anonymous wrote:Any way to get sports without cable?

Anonymous wrote:I think you need a separate streaming device for each TV, but someone more tech savvy than I should answer that.

You search for shows in a number of ways but it creates watch lists of what you want to watch/have watched, so once you search for, say, Arrested Development and add it to your watch list or watch an episode, you don't have to re-search for it.