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• #UNIVERSAL MEDIA SERVER REVIEWS ROKU MOVIE#

It queries all the apps on your Roku 3 for whatever show or movie you're looking for, showing you various options (and prices) from multiple services side-by-side.Īs with any app store offering a wide variety, there are a lot of apps you just won't care about. The newly redesigned search interface is also remarkably fast and effective. Throw in apps that show photos from Facebook, Picasa and Flickr, and the Roku quickly becomes the central hub through which nearly all streaming digital media in your home is consumed. Video channels from Netflix, Amazon, HBO, and Hulu are augmented with music apps from Pandora, Spotify, Rdio and Vevo. The Roku platform, on the other hand, is open to developers and has a robust library of available services for you to install at your own discretion. While Apple continues to crow about its strong ecosystem and the wide variety of content available for rent or purchase in its online store, the Apple TV is still trapped in a pre-third-party-app world.

Paired with the newly designed on-screen interface that arranges all your channels in a grid, switching between services and scrolling through menus can now be accomplished with nary a hiccup.Įven if you insist on paying large sums for a cable subscription, the Roku 3 should still be plugged into your HDTV.And flipping through those services more quickly is more important than ever, since there are now 750 media "channels" (apps, basically) built for Roku, and that number is only growing. The new processor, a Broadcom ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core chip that does away with those "press a button then wait, wait, wait, wait, oh there it goes" headaches. The new Roku has some improved software that solves the sluggish interface problems of previous Roku devices. And even if you insist on paying large sums for a cable subscription, the Roku 3 should still be plugged into your HDTV. With a library of over 750 channels, an entirely new, simple user interface, and excellent hardware, the latest set-top box from Roku ($100) is the one thing you need if you're getting your media from the internet. The Roku 3 is the official must-have device for cord-cutters.