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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Ok, I'm still thinking about this but can someone explain to me in simple terms about this Roku thing? I've read about it but I still don't understand what it is? Is it a transmitter, a decoder, a media player? It says on the Roku site that you can get 500 channels and so on, but is this like a free-to-air satellite dish, or how do I pickup these channels, if at all? Is the receiver somehow built-in? And if I have Netflix does that somehow give me access to these channels, or do I need to be in a specific geographic area?
My brain is meltinnnnngggg.........
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It's just a way to access streaming media on your TV without all the hassle of hooking a laptop or whatever to the TV every time you want to watch something. You generally connect it wirelessly to your router, though it is also possible to use an ethernet cable. Once it's hooked up you can sit back with the remote and scroll through any streaming service you subscribe to (such as Netflix, Hulu, etc.). When they talk about having "500 channels" they're just saying that there are that many streaming services you could potentially watch via Roku, but most likely you'd only use a couple at most. On mine, for example, we only watch Netfilx, Amazon and Hulu.
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