We’ve lived with Roku for a few months now, time for an update:
My wife watches about 80% of the TV that is watched in our house, and slowly Roku has won her over. She’s now a fan.
It takes a change of mindset: the cable provider doesn’t tell you when shows are available, you decide when the time is right for viewing (without needing to remember to record it in advance).
Now that she’s mastered that, she likes it so much better.
Drawbacks? There are a couple. Local news is spotty, but is available. I get my news from the internet so no big loss to me – it does bother my wife a bit as she’s not as much a computer junkie as I am.
And it is a little more complex. So many providers each with different structures to their offerings, it can be a bit like a maze at times.
But we’ve discovered some really good shows we would never have found using cable TV so to us it’s worth it.
