Cutting the cord. For a number of years people have been discussing
whether or not it was possible to cut the cord so to speak from your
cable provider to enjoy the best of TV. Well, we can't completely cut
the cord but streaming players like the Roku device can make it very,
very, easy to access your favorite content via the Internet.
Here are three reasons why the Roku is the best streaming player available today:
1. It's tiny and works effortlessly!
This little jewel of a box, the Roku HD plugs in to your existing
Wi-Fi network, links up through HDMI to your HD television and voilĂ ,
you have access to tons of Internet content. I am reminded of the scene
from the recent remake of Dark Shadows. Barnabas Collins, the vampire
just released into the 20th Century after being buried for 200 years,
has an interesting run in with technology. He sees and hears an actress
signing on a popular TV program of the day. He stumbles to the
television set, stunned at what he was observing and hearing and asked
the question: "What sorcery is this?" That is a question I asked my Roku
streaming player many times. How those engineers were able to create a
small electronic device that can do so much is beyond me but it works
and it is fantastic.
2. Access to tons of content.
Have an Amazon prime account? Then you can access all that content
through your Roku. Subscribe to HBO? Then you can link up HBOGO service
to your Roku and access not only current episodes of your favorite HBO
shows but past seasons as well. I am a latecomer to the series Game of
Thrones, but with access to my HBOGO and with my Roku, I was able to
watch seasons 1, 2, and 3 in a week in order to get caught up on this
very interesting and entertaining HBO program. As an aside, because I've
been so caught up in the series I ended up buying the digital book on
Amazon's Kindle. Now I can read up on the series before it comes back to
HBO in 2014. Isn't it amazing to see all the synergy of the modern
media complex made available through the Internet? There was a time when
the major companies were quite threatened by digitalization. Now, they
have found ways to thrive and profit.
3. Ease of use.
Recently, Roku updated its software, making searching for content
streamlined. Whatever content you are interested in, you enter a search
for it and Roku examines all its content on all platforms, across all
channels and then will call collate that information into a list. It's
really that simple. And while not every program is available on the Roku
streaming device, more and more content is made available on a monthly
basis. And more importantly, you can easily find it and access it thanks
to that wonderful and simple little box.
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