Roku boxes and TVs allow you to connect to the internet via Ethernet or Wi-Fi, while streaming sticks provide only the Wi-Fi option. Once you have your Roku device connected to power and powered on, ...

SARATOGA, Calif. -- Roku is the company that makes the simply-named "Roku player," a $99 box that brings Internet movies and TV shows from Netflix and Amazon, and now baseball games, to your TV set.

It’s easy to forget how big a splash the first Roku box made when it debuted on May 20, 2008. At launch, the device worked only with Netflix, best known at the time as a mail-order Blockbuster rival ...

To borrow from Woody Allen, love is too weak a word to describe how I feel about my Roku box. I lurve it. The tiny set-top delivers everything I could possibly want to my TV: Amazon (both Prime and ...

In April 2016, Comcast said Xfinity cable customers would be able to forgo an expensive cable box before the end of the year and use a Roku box instead. The company missed that target, but the good ...

Reset your Roku by unplugging it, then plugging it back in after a few minutes. This should make the Roku automatically reconnect to the mobile hotspot — tricking it to thinking it's using the old ...

It’s weird but true: of all the countless standalone Internet-TV-streaming boxes which have appeared over the past few years, just two have been unqualified successes. One is Apple TV. The other is ...

We hear news of online movie streaming all the time - more and more recently in relation to Netflix with their Roku box and impending Xbox 360 service. If you read between the lines (or on the lines ...

Forget a Roku streaming video box: this year the company is building its famous video streaming service directly into televisions. Smart TVs with Roku’s Internet video streaming service—dubbed Roku ...

Regular Ars Technica readers probably have no use for a new Roku device—or, at least, not in 2016. If you haven’t already watched media-streaming apps on your television using a game console, an HTPC ...

Discussion of the newly introduced Roku Channel. A look at the potential financial impact. Discussion of the competitive threats. First of all, thank you to everyone who has read my previous Roku ...