Commercial channels have forty four minutes of content and sixteen minutes of commercials to an hour. With wifi and Roku, I'm finding cable less and less relevant. Your thoughts?
I use iTunes and cable on demand services. No commercials. Free Movies with on demand.
I watch cable. I don't use my computer to watch tv shows.
Cable. I've rarely ever gone online on my TV. Computer is much faster in my opinion.
While in theory it seems like streaming media will make Cable TV and Satellite TV obsolete, you are overlooking one thing. The same people who control cable, and satellite (comcast, att, verizon and so on) also control the internet by providing it. They are poised to stop this from happening by setting cap limits on your bandwidth. They are already doing it pretty much. The main reason that most media does not stream at 1080 HD is that you would quickly hit your 250GB or so cap set by the providers. So in the meantime they will continue to make billions off of most people. A small few will continue to bootleg and work around it paying nothing. There is no middle ground. .It is setup so there can be no middle ground. Roku is not an answer to the corporate greed, they are just another form of it. Look at the Roku 2's. Gone is the digital optical out, gone is the component video, gone is the ethernet connection wired option (unless you are will to pay $100 to have it wired). And you only get the USB port, again if you are willing to drop $100 for it. The Roku 2 is not better, it is worse. Are not things suppose to improve with newer versions. The WD Live plus is a much better option for the price. Go on OKorder and get a used old pc in good working order for $30, drop a $30 HD video card in it for for the 1080 HD and surround sound. Connect a wireless keyboard/mouse to it for $20, set it next to your TV and be done with it. Watch all the things you want for free (in 1080HD with surround sound) to include all the networks websites (which the Roku can not do), Get something to snack on while the commercials play. Pay $1 at redbox for the movies you want (and stop paying for 100's of movies you do not want) And save yourself $2,000 a year. Screw them all lol those are my thoughts on the matter.
