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clrmoney
9/29/2016 12:22:33 PM
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ROKUs 4K Evolution
They have a lot of interesting products that are avilable like the Premier and Ultra and UHD and this is great with the new products and services they provide for the customers.
faryl
9/29/2016 4:51:37 PM
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Re: ROKUs 4K Evolution
$30 is a fantastic price to get Roku's streaming functionality.
Michelle
9/29/2016 10:00:07 PM
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I agree. Roku has a mature OS and channel market. If I needed to replace my existing Roku devices, I would buy an express. I think the Roku Express would be a great gift.
elizabethv
9/29/2016 10:05:29 PM
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If I were going to take a guess, I'd say the Roku Express is aimed at taking a bite out of the Amazon Fire Stick market. I recently needed to buy a second Amazon Fire Stick, for a second TV, and mildly entertained the idea of getting a Roku, until I saw they were twice the price. Maybe functionality is better and that's the reason for the price difference, but for me, I know a Fire Stick would suffice for the purposes I needed, so there was no point in looking at additional features for a greater cost. If I'd seen a Roku similarly priced to the Fire Stick, I probably would have checked it out.
faryl
9/29/2016 10:33:37 PM
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Re: ROKUs 4K Evolution
How do you like the firestick?
dlr5288
9/30/2016 11:46:37 AM
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I agree!
I also can't wait to see what other features they come out with! If Roku is already taking over consumers from other devices, I wonder what other devices will be over thrown.
faryl
9/29/2016 10:32:47 PM
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I got my mom a roku so she can watch Hulu & netflix when she's traveling.
I think rokus make great gifts!
Michelle
9/30/2016 10:19:34 PM
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I haven't thought about taking the Roku when travelling. It makes sense now that high-speed broadband is so common. I think the value Roku would be an excellent travel version.
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Super cool idea for travel.
faryl
10/31/2016 3:05:13 PM
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The one issue with using it for travel is that you can't accept wifi agreements when connecting to the internet on it, so you can't always use hotel wifi. :-/
Michelle
10/31/2016 3:13:45 PM
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@faryl I can see how that could cause issues. I assumed there might be guest access points for traveling video players like Roku.
faryl
10/31/2016 7:43:44 PM
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It's probably a more common request these days than when I first got my roku years ago.
We have free internet through the property management here, but you have to accept the terms each time you access it - the tech guy just added my roku's MAC address to some list so that it bypasses that screen now.
Michelle
11/1/2016 1:58:53 PM
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Re: ROKUs 4K Evolution
@faryl That sounds like a good deal for you. Maybe you'll get to try 4K video on your service someday.
faryl
11/29/2016 2:25:33 AM
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I just switched from Uverse to broadband, so there's hope!
Michelle
11/29/2016 2:23:49 PM
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@faryl I hope 4k is as wonderful as advertised. Good luck with your new service.
faryl
11/29/2016 11:58:41 PM
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Thanks! So far, no complaints!
dlr5288
10/31/2016 6:50:36 PM
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Yes! My wifi can get so aggravating after a while of me trying to connect it. Usually it's just because the router sucks and not my phone..
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Very reasonable i would say for the great travel companion especially for daily commuters.
mhhf1ve
9/29/2016 3:04:22 PM
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streaming??
I have to agree with some skepticism that streaming devices for ultra-high bandwidth services is the place to start. Who has a Gbps service? Not too many households (yet!?)...
And when will real broadband come to the mainstream?
afwriter
9/29/2016 4:47:50 PM
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While you make a great point, I would argue that a piece of tech like this that is cheaper than others may be a great catalyst for a household to get some kind of 4k tech into their home, therefore spurring their interest in collecting more 4K products.
faryl
9/29/2016 4:50:40 PM
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Re: streaming??
That's another good point - driving demand by available hardware.
mhhf1ve
9/29/2016 10:02:32 PM
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Sure, there's a chicken&egg problem with these new video standards, so someone has to start offering the features or else we'd all be stuck with 480p video. We're looking at a future without headphone jacks, so maybe we're moving well beyond HDMI cables, too.... :P
JohnBarnes
9/30/2016 7:55:02 AM
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faryl, mhhf1ve, afwriter,
I know I keep harping on the analogy to color television -- but here it is again: color TV sales entered teh explosive growth phase when there were fewer than ten hours per week of color programming and half the stations in the country (admittedly, mostly backwater places) didn't broadcast in color. And once color receivers were more than about 20% of the market, broadcast TV rolled over and almost all programs went to color in a less than two year period.
Roku looks to me like they've done as good a job (as anyone can judge before we see how it works out) of catching the wave. Now we will see where they end up. But if the new streaming players sell well, there is going to be a lot more 4K available to play on them within a short time.
mhhf1ve
9/30/2016 11:22:36 AM
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Re: streaming??
I think there's a significant "marginal benefit" difference between the transition from black&white to color TV and HDTV to UHD video... but your point is taken. Ultimately, progress will make all SDTVs obsolete and SD video will be as hard to find as a 8 track cassette player.
JohnBarnes
9/30/2016 2:43:58 PM
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Mhhf1ve,
I suspect the reason that adoption and deployment of technological improvements follows a logistic curve is that dialogue between the software and hardware demands and availability. The combined effect of two different r(1-r) structures inside a set of constraints between 0 and 100% pretty much forces the curve into that shape.
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Very very true !
The other day I was staring at the car cd player and started to think if we will be able to see them any more in new makes in future. I stopped using mine long ago.
mhhf1ve
10/3/2016 9:35:59 PM
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> "The other day I was staring at the car cd player and started to think if we will be able to see them any more in new makes in future. I stopped using mine long ago."
CD players are already being phased out of original equipment for cars... for precisely the reason that fewer and fewer users have CDs nowadays.
I remember using a tape deck with an iPod because that was the only way to get an audio input into my car system. (There used to be tape adapters that basically acted as an audio input device.) Now it's Bluetooth or USB connections in cars.... (and Apple will probably kill the standard audio jack soon, too)
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I remember using a tape deck with an iPod because that was the only way to get an audio input into my car system..
You are not alone, I use to do exact same thing. Interesting to recall those time.
batye
10/13/2016 1:40:31 PM
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@ms.akkineni not alone at all, in my car wife and I still using tape deck adapter to send audio from mp3 player to the car stereo :) old school :) ps: my local Dollar Tree store still sells this tape adapters ...
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Good to know. Old id Gold.............
faryl
10/31/2016 3:11:43 PM
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I bought one of those cassette converters earlier this year. :) our car's too low tech for Bluetooth!
Sadly, it's too low tech for the cassette converter too, so I'm stuck with terrestrial radio (*gasp*!)
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Very very true !
The other day I was staring at the car cd player and started to think if we will be able to see them any more in new makes in future. I stopped using mine long ago.
batye
10/13/2016 1:41:39 PM
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@ms.akkineni I still using my CD player at home and still hold on to VHS player... I love old technology...
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I miss my CD player so much. Few years ago i remember I copied few of my favourite tracks to CD and then use to run on repeat on my drive to work. That use to be amazing.
batye
10/19/2016 8:50:11 AM
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@ms.akkineni wife still uses cd player almost everyday... on weekends we using our old LP player to play very old records from 1970-80 :)
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@bayte:
You guys surely are epic. I understand if we have significant collection from the past, that means a lot,
batye
10/19/2016 2:55:53 PM
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@ms.akkineni maybe or maybe we both just old ... and love old things ...
Michelle
9/30/2016 2:26:50 PM
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@MHH You've got the right idea. Someone's gotta get the video revolution going. I don't know if I can live in a future without a headphone jack...
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I would like to say - that is not too far away. We got to the point of using a commom outlet now.
faryl
10/31/2016 8:55:16 PM
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I'm too flaky about charging my phone battery to feel comfortable having to rely on using the same jack/port as I do for charging :-/
Plus I still use my old school earbuds!
faryl
9/29/2016 4:48:47 PM
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Are competitors offering similar?
I could see that as being something consumers might "fall for" as something that they'll benefit from, and roku not wanting to lose those customers to the competition.
afwriter
9/29/2016 5:08:23 PM
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UHD Gaining Popularity
I was in Best Buy yesterday and noticed that they have a large selection of UHD discs. I didn't even know that those existed and I would defitnitely be wary of upgraging for a few years, especially with what happened with HDDVDs.
faryl
9/29/2016 8:53:50 PM
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What does one use to play UHD discs on?
Adi
9/30/2016 12:15:05 AM
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@faryl - you would need a UHD Blu-Ray player.
faryl
9/30/2016 12:34:11 AM
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Ah! I wasn't sure if that was the next iteration of movie media!
I never got around to getting a blu-ray player...
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