I got my Roku. It's pretty cool. I have the bandwidth for it to run well because I signed up for very fast Internet. For quality of picture, it's top notch. I was disappointed in what's happened to Hulu, however. I used to use it back in about '09,10 with a PC hooked up to an old style TV. Back then Hulu was free if you allowed advertising or you had the option of paying to have no ads. Now they only have paid subscriptions. I was also disappointed that France 24 is in English, not French. I wanted it to keep up with my French. On the plus side it's free and is a pretty good channel. I was able to rent out a hard-to-find French movie easily and watch it last night.
I'm going to be very choosy on what I pay for. If you subscribed to everything in Roku, it would add up to one hefty bill. I think it's going to end up being a choice between Amazon Prime or Netflix. If anyone has opinions as to which is better and why, I'm all ears.
Hulu is good to watch current TV (and unfortunately is better to pay the extra $2 for no commercials). I have Prime and Netflix (3 accounts in DC and one in WV too), and all those apps combined are only around $35.00 and has most of the present TV content I want and the drama shows the GF wants ( on Hulu/Prime).
Hulu releases their TV shows "ongoing season type episodes" the day after they are on primetime/cable TV; Workaholics, Modern Family, Parks n Recs when it was on, South Park, Family Guy, other dramas I don't watch, so just have to wait a day, etc. Netlfix is still king of Original Drama series' and cable/primetime TV content( just usually a season behind unless the show is off the air and that usually means they have the complete series); just giving you the ins and outs if you didn't know, etc.
Amazon prime is good if you want to buy a whole season digitally and binge if unavailable on Netflix or Hulu, but also just incorporated that with my current Amazon prime account to buy tech and video games so that is more personal preference.
