We check out the Food Network and Travel Channel occasionally, when there isn’t anything else on (which is fairly often; especially toward the end of the week). Their stuff has gotten really bad. There’s no ‘Travel’ in the Travel Channel, and the FN has some of the most worthless ‘upscale’ oriented garbage I could imagine.
I love No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain on Travel Channel. I watch them all the time on Netflix.
The Roku box is great by the way. I stream channels into it from my wireless router and watch it on my TV. With Netflix ($9.99 a month), you can get unlimited streaming of thousands of movies and hundreds of TV shows. What isn't available on streaming, just have Netflix mail you the DVDs. Can't beat it.