There is no monthly cost for the Roku device. The only cost is for the Netflix service which is somewhere around $9/month.
I bought a ROKU box for my daughter a couple years ago. Can’t remember the make and model. But it works like a champ. She uses it in her room, but can unhook it and carry it down to the basement if she wants to share a movie night with her sisters.
I think most of the ROKU devices are under $100, so I really don’t think you can go wrong. I’d head out to Best Buy and pick one up. If you don’t like it, take it back and exchange it.
My two Ruku HDMI sticks both over heat constantly. They seem to loose connection about every two hours. Very irritating. I now run Netflix thru the Wii U. Very stable connection.
If I may offer my 2 cents... I highly recommend that you go with the Roku 2 rather than the Roku 3. The Roku 2 has analog outputs for the audio and video as well as HDMI. The Roku 3 has only HDMI output.
I feed the analog video to a 4.3” LCD display. That way when you’re using Pandora you don’t have to turn on your TV to see your stations. I feed the stereo signal to a receiver. It’s not surround but most older shows weren’t recorded in surround anyway.
Even though your surround receiver passes HDMI to your TV, it won’t play the audio. Somehow you’re supposed to send the HDMI back from your TV into a re-assigned input on the receiver to extract the audio. I’m thinking that they complicate it this way so you won’t record it.
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