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Well, that's the other thing. I need to get either a dual band router or a range extender. What do you think would be best? Granted we have all of our phones, an iPad, and a couple of laptops using the wifi in the house.
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Well, that's the other thing. I need to get either a dual band router or a range extender. What do you think would be best? Granted we have all of our phones, an iPad, and a couple of laptops using the wifi in the house.
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I've used several models of Roku, but I haven't used the newer stick. There is a significant difference in speed and smoothness between the Roku 2 and the Roku 3. If the newer stick is a smooth experience like the Roku 3, go for it, if not, I would just get Roku 3s for every tv. I'm using the older Roku stick in our guest bedroom, the 3400, the one that requires a MHL port, and it's kind of lame, though the newer stick is better I'm sure. The Roku 3 on our main TV is really nice and responsive though.
Perused a few reviews on Amazon, some claiming the wifi range is bad on the stick. I'd be careful if your wifi coverage is spotty. Buffering galore on our guest bedroom tv with the older stick, had to move it to get it to stop.
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That's exactly what I was thinking but given the distance I am from Mobile towers and NOLA towers, I don't want to go through the expense and hassle of mounting an outdoor antenna and running coax if an indoor antenna will give me the same results of four channels. I'm curious if anyone is able to pick up stations listed as having a weak signal by using an outdoor antenna.
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Weekend project is an antenna. I'm going to start with indoor and if it doesn't pick up everything, I'll swap it for an outdoor.
It looks like there's no local NBC station in Lafayette, I might need outdoor strength to get either the Baton Rouge or Lake Charles signal, we'll see.
It looks like there's no local NBC station in Lafayette, I might need outdoor strength to get either the Baton Rouge or Lake Charles signal, we'll see.
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I started with an indoor antenna and everytime someone walked in from of it the signal dropped. I quickly changed gears.
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I have two Roku 3 boxes, 1 stick on an outside TV and an actual Roku TV.
They all work great. I can't tell a difference.
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What is the user experience like when switching from something like DirectTv to say a Chromecast with Hulu+, etc? How easy is it to find series and episodes to watch? Can you subscribe / favorite / bookmark items? I've been thinking about this, but I need everyday use to be simple if I'm going to convince my wife on it.. Anyone else deal with this?
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Google each of the channels, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon etc and see if they have the content you are looking for. If there is a particular series you want that they dont provide, there are other ways of getting it without DTV. Outdoor antenna for local sports, Internet for national televised games on the channels you don't get. There isn't any reason to pay for satellite or cable TV unless you or someone else in your house can't live without certain channels like food, Disney, outdoor, Espn for sports center only etc. I don't regret cutting it and I save $500-$1000 per year.
PS the DTV cable can be disconnected from the dish and go straight to the outside antenna. I catch about 19 channels, some in HD. if my antenna was taller I could catch more. I never tried to use a signal Booster or amplifier but I'm sure it wouldnt hurt.
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on the roku you just sign onto every service you have (netflix, hbogo, etc)
Then they have the same watchlists you have on your devices
You can use either a roku remote or your phone w/roku app
The roku is more convenient bc of the remote and or phone app
BUT, I find chromecast easier browsing bc you're doing it on your device
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The Roku 3 is a good bit faster than my Apple TV. I like the Apple TV UI over the dull Roku UI but the Netflix app UI is better on the Roku 3. Something to note also is the Apple TV only does Dolby Digital (at the moment) where as the Roku 3 does Dolby Digital + and it supports 7.1 channels in the VUDU app.
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I'm really surprised only one person briefly mentioned kodi/xbmc. I've used xbmc for a year now and I couldn't be happier. I can watch anything I want, no matter the show or movie, whether it's live sports or not.....whenever I want. For free.
First go here.....Kodi | Open Source Home Theatre Software
Read up on it and learn a little about it. There is a bit of a learning curve at the beginning but after that it's easy.
Also, I second everyone who said plex. I have the main plex media server on my pc in my office and then the plex app on my htpc in the living room and on my roku in my bedroom. It streams everything on my office pc flawlessly. Read up on Plex here
https://plex.tv/
Lastly, for everyone who uses plex, check out this forum page here. It talks about the unofficial appstore for plex. Everything is legit and works well with plex, they are just homebrew type apps. Check that out here.....
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/25523-unsupported-as-in-totally-unofficial-appstore/
The apps you really want are icefilms, let me watch this, and movie 2k. These will pretty much give you access to anything there is to watch. On your roku. For free.
First go here.....Kodi | Open Source Home Theatre Software
Read up on it and learn a little about it. There is a bit of a learning curve at the beginning but after that it's easy.
Also, I second everyone who said plex. I have the main plex media server on my pc in my office and then the plex app on my htpc in the living room and on my roku in my bedroom. It streams everything on my office pc flawlessly. Read up on Plex here
https://plex.tv/
Lastly, for everyone who uses plex, check out this forum page here. It talks about the unofficial appstore for plex. Everything is legit and works well with plex, they are just homebrew type apps. Check that out here.....
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/25523-unsupported-as-in-totally-unofficial-appstore/
The apps you really want are icefilms, let me watch this, and movie 2k. These will pretty much give you access to anything there is to watch. On your roku. For free.
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interesting. What is meant by 10-foot user interface? I got lost in some of the Rasbery pi videos. I have been very curious about some of the cool projects with those little suckers for a while.
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It just means you can control it with a remote (since most people sit about 10 feet from their tv screen)
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I am still confused. Is there hardware or is it just software?
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