{"id":2271,"date":"2009-08-05T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2009-08-05T05:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T13:00:29","slug":"roku-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/08\/05\/roku-rocks","title":{"rendered":"Roku Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Roku<\/a>For Paula\u2019s birth\u00adday I bought her a lit\u00adtle device called the Roku Dig\u00adi\u00adtal Video Play\u00ader<\/a>. Basi\u00adcal\u00adly, it takes Net\u00adflix stream\u00ading videos and dis\u00adplays them on your tele\u00advi\u00adsion.<\/p>\n

This is very good for us since we don\u2019t have any tele\u00advi\u00adsion ser\u00advice. When we moved into our new place a year ago we decid\u00aded that our cable bill was 90% waste, so we can\u00adcelled it and we watch tele\u00advi\u00adsion series on DVD through Net\u00adflix or on the com\u00adput\u00ader now.<\/p>\n

So I bought this Roku device which takes the 12,000 or so stream\u00ading videos avail\u00adable on Net\u00adflix (and the 40,000 or so avail\u00adable on Ama\u00adzon as pay-per-view) and lets you watch them on your nor\u00admal tele\u00advi\u00adsion.<\/p>\n

The Roku box is amaz\u00ading. It only does one thing and it does it well. The images are crisp, the audio is clear, and the inter\u00adface is very easy to use. In my opin\u00adion, the videos dis\u00adplay much bet\u00adter than they ever did on my lap\u00adtop or our desk\u00adtop com\u00adput\u00ader.<\/p>\n

If you use Net\u00adflix and ever watch stream\u00ading videos, you should seri\u00adous\u00adly con\u00adsid\u00ader the Roku. It rocks.<\/p>\n

And it costs less than a few months of cable \u2014 even when you com\u00adbine it with your month\u00adly Net\u00adflix bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Paula\u2019s birth\u00adday I bought her a lit\u00adtle device called the Roku Dig\u00adi\u00adtal Video Play\u00ader. Basi\u00adcal\u00adly, it takes Net\u00adflix stream\u00ading videos and dis\u00adplays them on your tele\u00advi\u00adsion. This is very good for us since we don\u2019t have any tele\u00advi\u00adsion ser\u00advice. When we moved into our new place a year ago we decid\u00aded that our cable \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cRoku Rocks\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-AD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}