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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

melody

(12,365 posts) Wed Jan 2, 2013, 10:47 AM Jan 2013

Considering Roku in place of cable [View all]

I just bought the Roku thing for cheap from a friend. We're still trying to get it working, but we're toying with the idea of ultimately dropping regular cable in favor of using it. It seems like we can access most of what we do watch (which isn't much) through Roku. I realize this is a fairly high-end frugal issue, but $100 a month is $100 a month.

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Considering Roku in place of cable [View all] melody Jan 2013 OP

Are you able to access over the air channels in your location? cbayer Jan 2013 #1

Yes, however, there are cable shows my husband would miss melody Jan 2013 #2

Hulu carries a lot of those. Would check them out to see if they will cover it. cbayer Jan 2013 #3

Will do. Thanks so much! n/t melody Jan 2013 #4

I don't know about Roku. Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #5

One time fee for the box itself with a lot of accessible free content and cheap fee premium melody Jan 2013 #6

love my roku and netflix and new antenna on the roof strikeforce Feb 2013 #7

We have a Roku getting old in mke Feb 2013 #8