Roku - netflix and other apps

[cp73]

I just purchased and installed the Roku a couple of weeks ago. The Netflix streaming is great. I have also played around with Picassa and a few other apps. I am having trouble looking at friends photos on facebook. Any other Roku users out there and what other apps (channels) do you like other than Netflix?

 

[Sea Six]

I am loving the streaming video from NetFlix. First I bought a Roku, then I got a new Samsung BluRay that had NetFlix built in WiFi, then I found out my Wii would also support NetFlix. You can download a file from the Wii shopping channel to load into your Wii for free. I am looking forward to the Hulu channel they say is coming soon!

 

[Conan]

Nobody asked, but here are the movies I've queued to watch live on the Roku:

32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
Dirty Work
The Great Race
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Big Lebowski
XX/XY
I Know Where I'm Going!
Soapdish
Moon
Fort Apache
Shoot the Piano Player
Seven Samurai
Ikiru
Tokyo Story
Grand Illusion
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Ugetsu
Tyson
The League of Gentlemen: Series 1
The League of Gentlemen: Series 2
The League of Gentlemen: Series 3
In Cold Blood
The Office: Series 2
Innocent Voices
No End in Sight
Cautiva
The Interpreter
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Laura
The Big Sleep
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
The General
C.R.A.Z.Y.
House of Cards Trilogy I: House of Cards
30 Rock: Season 1
30 Rock: Season 2
The Dish
The Syrian Bride
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Gilda
A Passage to India
Nosferatu
Full Metal Jacket
Barry Lyndon
2 Days in Paris
Defending Your Life
The Palm Beach Story
The Lady Eve
Two Lovers
Damage
The Lady from Shanghai
Tell No One
Mail Order Wife
Breaker Morant: Masterworks Edition
Mad Dog and Glory
The Producers
Only You
When the Sea Rises
Priceless
Happenstance
A Secret
A Streetcar Named Desire
East of Eden: Special Edition
The Bicycle Thief
Katyn
Fierce People
The Sheltering Sky
Secret Things
Water Lilies
A Woman Is a Woman
A Night in Casablanca
Shakespeare Tragedies: Hamlet
The Merchant of Venice - BBC
Lust, Caution
This Girl's Life
Somersault
Cashback
La Vie en Rose
Tortilla Soup
Hoop Dreams
Man on Wire
Street Fight
Glass: Portrait in Twelve Parts
Oldboy
Jesus Camp
Deliver Us from Evil
Unfaithfully Yours
Super Size Me
MST3K: Zombie Nightmare
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Racket Girls
MST3K: Werewolf
MST3K: Laserblast
MST3K: The Girl in Lovers' Lane
MST3K: Future War
MST3K: First Spaceship on Venus
The Long Way Home
Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill
Eddie Izzard: Glorious
Gates of Heaven
Return of the Secaucus 7
Sex Is Comedy
Lymelife
Au Revoir Les Enfants
La Strada: Special Edition
The Virgin Spring
The Seventh Seal
Postcards from the Edge
Long Day's Journey into Night
The Searchers
Heat
Body Heat
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Night Moves
Richard III
The 400 Blows
Smiles of a Summer Night
The Battle of Algiers
Mark Twain
Sunshine Cleaning
Management
She's the One
Wilby Wonderful
Shut Up & Shoot Me
Birthday Girl
Go
The Last of Sheila
Frank Zappa: Apostrophe / Over-Nite...
The Turandot Project
Stomp Live
Don't Bother to Knock
Is Anybody There?
Amreeka
Outsourced
Hilary and Jackie
All About Eve
Harlan County, U.S.A.
The Girlfriend Experience
Rome Open City
Hail the Conquering Hero
The Insider
Ball of Fire
Departures
Punch-Drunk Love
Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable
Heart and Souls
The Age of Innocence
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
My Left Foot: Special Edition
Hell House
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
It Might Get Loud
The Cruise
Our Man in Havana
Broadcast News
Monarch of the Glen: Series 4
The Edge of Heaven
A Talking Picture
Paths of Glory
Children of Paradise
My Man Godfrey
The Pianist
Red Rock West
Nine Lives
Diabolique
Splendor in the Grass
Niagara
Gloomy Sunday
The Lover
Aberdeen
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Company
Michael Jackson's This Is It
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
The Gleaners and I
Barton Fink
I Love You to Death
A Girl Cut in Two
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Human Face
The Sorrow and the Pity
The Fugitive
The Sweet Hereafter
Hard Eight
Persona
Gods and Monsters
Children of a Lesser God
Powaqqatsi
Another Woman
Paradise Road
Missing
Charley Varrick
Holiday
Big Fan
One Bright Shining Moment
The Killing
Valley Girl
American Teen
The Mission: Special Edition
Sin Nombre
Touching the Void
Nowhere in Africa
The Roots: A Sonic Event
Gosford Park
Little Britain: Series 1
Little Britain: Series 2
Lord Love a Duck
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
The Fabulous Baker Boys

 

[wackymother]

Did you know you can make someone your Netflix friend and then you can share your queue with them that way?

We've been getting Netflix on the Wii and we loooove it. I got a Roku for our upstairs TV and just set it up last night. I'm not really getting Amazon Unboxed--it seems so expensive compared to Netflix! Of course Amazon has new movies and there's no waiting, and you can also get TV shows, but a $5 movie is at the low end for them.

I'm looking forward to watching Hulu on TV, too!

 

[ausman]

I'm confused by the Hulu references.

Isn't it possible now to get Hulu Plus (approx $10/mth) throuh Netflix.

Are the references to this or something else.?

 

[wackymother]

We're cheap! We want FREE Hulu!

Seriously, you're right, it's there--although my brand-new Roku, during setup last night, told me that Hulu Plus was not available yet. I can go mess with it, and I'm sure if I paid the $10 per month, Hulu Plus would magically be available.

Still, Hulu Plus is new and costs $10 per month. Rumor has it that they're thinking about lowering it to $5 per month.

 

[wackymother]

Wait a minute--I'm not sure it IS available. Do you get it on your Roku, Basham?

 

[dmbrand]

We've been streaming Netflix on our BluRay for about one year, and still love it. I don't have a list as long as Conans . But we watch a couple movies per week.

Anyone buy the new Roku box listed on the Netflix envelopes that cost $59.99? I am tempted to get one for another room in the house.

We also stream Pandora music on the BluRay, not sure if Roku has this capability. If it does, I highly recommend it. We pick a song we like, Pandora builds a music list around it, and then we stream the music through the home theater system(also have wireless speakers for outside during the summer). Especially good if you plan a themed party....Caribbean, Lounge music, 80's, etc.

We also noticed that our account allows our college son living 100 miles away to access the streamed movies using his Playstation 3, just as easily as if he was upstairs in his room.

 

[Conan]

We also stream Pandora music on the BluRay, not sure if Roku has this capability. If it does, I highly recommend it. We pick a song we like, Pandora builds a music list around it, and then we stream the music through the home theater system(also have wireless speakers for outside during the summer). Especially good if you plan a themed party....Caribbean, Lounge music, 80's, etc.

Yes, there's a Pandora channel available (free) on the Roku

 

[billymach4]

Can you take to ROKU on vacation?

Has anyone taken their ROKU on vacation and used at a TS?

 

[ausman]

Wait a minute--I'm not sure it IS available. Do you get it on your Roku, Basham?

Little late in answering, sorry.

I do not get it on my Roku because I am not going to pay for something I would not use.

It is available if I wanted it however.

http://www.roku.com/hulu-partner

I did misspeak somewhat previously in saying it was available through Netflix. It is available on the Roku, not sure of payment arrangements.

 

[pwrshift]

Nobody with AppleTV??

I got the Apple TV for the bedroom TV and enjoy it, but don't have anything to compare it to. Simple to set uo using HDMI cables, and it gives access to iTunes, Flickr, other computers in the house on WIFI when they have iTunes on, utube, podcasts, moblileMe, radio...and, of course Netflix for $8 a month unlimited viewing (but all are old movies or ones that didn't do well). I watched Black Stallion (Mickey Rooney) today...it was done in 1979 but new to me...gave it a 5 star rating.

Not quite sure if I'll keep Netflix as it's new to Canada and there are newer movies in HD on my cable provider movie channels. Netflix isn't HD in Canada yet except if you connect with the Sony game, but the movies are not that great -- at least right now. My stock purchase of Netflix 2 years ago has done rather well though.

iTunes music in Canada is $1.29 per song! IronMan 2 rents for $5.99 + 13% taxes. I think all the streaming services are having difficulty with Canadian copyright laws, affecting the availability on the newer stuff.

 

[billymach4]

Just ordered the ROKU!

OK I got myself an early holiday present.

Got the ROKU and just got off the phone with Verizon and ditched the HBO!

That will save me about $20 per month.

I have heard that alot of folks have been slowly ditching their cable service. I would like to be in that club! My only hurdle is convincing the wife and son.

Please help me. Will they love the new ROKU so much to justify ditching my Verizon TV?


I would gladly get the additional ROKU boxes to ditch the cable!

 

[ricoba]

What's the Differences?

Curious about Roku, so I went to Amazon and saw a bunch of them. What's the differences between the models?

 

[rhonda]

I have heard that alot of folks have been slowly ditching their cable service. I would like to be in that club! My only hurdle is convincing the wife and son.

We dropped down to a 'basic television' package (~7 channels, mostly local broadcasting) about a year ago. While we miss HGTV, Discovery, History -- we can pick up individual shows/seasons via iTunes. The biggest hardship was losing ESPN, specifically Monday Night Football. Our best live-sports solution thus far is http://www.fromsport.com even if some game narration is not in English.

 

[Passepartout]

Netflix price increase soon.

Along a similar line, we just got notice that Netflix price is going up $1.00 a month for those mailing DVDs. No price change for streaming. While a buck isn't necessarily a deal breaker, I will examine our queues- both streaming and DVD and see if I can migrate to entirely streaming. I know that not everything available on DVD is available to be streamed, but more is available all the time.

Jim Ricks

 

[wackymother]

If you have one DVD at a time, the price is going up--but if you go to all streaming, the price is going DOWN, from $9 a month to $8 a month.

 

[MULTIZ321]

Conan,

Are those movies free? Or is there a fee for each movie?

Thanks


Richard

 

[wackymother]

Not Conan, but Netflix is pay-one-price for the month. For example, I pay $9 a month. For my $9, with my home wireless network, I can watch all the streaming video I can stand, on any TV with a Netflix-ready device, and also on any computer. Plus I can have one DVD at a time through their mail program.

I have almost 500 movies on my streaming-only queue, and about 300 on my DVD queue. Some things are only available as DVDs. Others are available as both DVDs and streaming.

You can pay slightly more per month and have more than one DVD out at a time.