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Re: Roku may go public this year

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On 2014-02-25, Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> wrote:
> RS Wood wrote:
>
> With the current Roku, are you able to grab over-the-air programming and 
> wind up recording with zero payments?  The adds and the box don't make it 
> clear whether I can just plug in the box and manually set up to record the 
> antenna input without ANY additional services.
>
> I'm so far in the sticks that the antenna is my only access w/o some 
> expensive (and little used) satellite setup but it would be nice to time-
> shift what I would watch while I'm out fishing ;-).
>

I don't know, I haven't received it yet.  I also live in Senegal - see
www.therandymon.com - so I'm not exactly in an area with lots of
over-the-air programming.  They have "channels" like others, but by the
time you get done paying for a Hulu+, Netflix, and whatever
subscription, you're probably paying the same money you paid for cable.
I'm not buying it for that feature - I'm buying it so I can stream stuff
from my FreeNAS, which is like heaven.

I'd add: it's not clear to me that the Roku can record anything at all.
It just streams stuff to an HDMI video connection, that's it.

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Roku may go public this year RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 18:14 +0000
  Re: Roku may go public this year RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 15:46 +0000
    Re: Roku may go public this year Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-02-25 11:35 -0700
      Re: Roku may go public this year RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 20:15 +0000
        Re: Roku may go public this year Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-02-25 22:51 -0700

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