Roku video streaming?

[jaysz2893]

Did some more research, and you may want to read this before diving into the roku; http://www.holisticmonkey.com/Blog.action?blogId=2

Not fan boy-ing here, but a lot of what that guy is complaining about is in the que to be fixed. I agree with most of it, but for the money I am happy. It was the underdog upstart a few years back so it has some ground to make up over Apple and the others. I looked at Apple TV, but I HATE Apple more than I like thier device, so...

[spikester7878]

Ah, misunderstanding -- Trakt.tv is just for tracking the TV you watch. It gives a history. There's nothing to actually watch on their site.

But if you're interested in the Media PC route -- the software you'd want is Sickbeard, SABnzbd, and XBMC. Sickbeard is like a DVR - you add all the shows you want to watch to Sickbeard. Sickbeard finds the shows available to download on Usenet (newsgroups) and then forwards the download information to SABnzbd. SABnzbd downloads all the pieces of the TV show, puts it all back together, and then plops it into your Media folder. XBMC watches your Media folder and when new shows get added it reads the filename, figures out what TV show, season, and episode it's for, and then queries TheTVDB.com to find out that episode's cast, plot summary, air date, etc. XBMC is the front end that you use to watch all your media on -- it's a GREAT program even if you just have a small collection of shows, it really makes it all easy.

Here's a few articles on the process --
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=120406
http://www.howtogeek.com/72267/how-to-turn-your-computer-into-a-supercharged-tivo-with-sick-beard/

yea i saw that Trakt was for tracking only(i do like it though it gives me ideas for what to watch)

[meissen]

yea i saw that Trakt was for tracking only(i do like it though it gives me ideas for what to watch)

OK cool just wanted to make sure it wasn't a misunderstanding on what Trakt does. In that regard, yes it works great for tracking and also recommending shows that you might like based on previously viewed episodes.

[JCzNova]

Did some more research, and you may want to read this before diving into the roku; http://www.holisticmonkey.com/Blog.action?blogId=2

With this being dated 9.5.2011, and probably referring to the original ROKU. I have been looking around too and haven't found bad reviews on the ROKU 3 as of yet.

[firebird_1995]

With this being dated 9.5.2011, and probably referring to the original ROKU. I haven't been looking around too and haven't found bad reviews on the ROKU 3 as of yet.

I see what you did there with the call411.




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[JCzNova]

I see what you did there with the call411.




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