Thursday, September 27, 2012

Roku you



When I was young I was the nicest guy I knew
I thought I was the chosen one
But time went by and I found out a thing or two
My shine wore off as time wore on
I thought that I was living out the perfect life
But in the lonely hours when the truth begins to bite
I thought about the times when I turned my back & stalled

I ain't no nice guy after all

When I was young I was the only game in town
I thought I had it down for sure,
But time went by and I was lost in what I found
The reasons blurred, the way unsure
I thought that I was living life the only way
But as I saw that life was more than day to day
I turned around, I read the writing on the wall

I ain't no nice guy after all
I ain't no nice guy after all

In all the years you spend between your birth and death
You find there's lots of times you should have saved your breath
It comes as quite a shock when that trip leads to fall


So I have the Roku XS and I like it. My favorite things, Pandora is now through my stereo, streaming Netflix, the video quality is much better than watching on a dvd, watching The Daily Show and The Colbert Report for breakfast, The Internet Archive, they have lots and lots of great live music and other very cool content and many other cool channels. The only bummer is that getting live tv is has only fair video quality at best.

So I dumped most of my cable. I kept the most basic cable at $11.00 a month and bumped up by internet speed to 30 mbps. My cable/internet bill went from $150.00 a month to $67.00 a month.

Now I can stream a bunch of my Netflix and my list of pending rentals will go done quickly. I have 52 now and a quarter of those I can stream.

Hope your world is good.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Motorhead lyrics hit home.
The main thing I miss on the Roku is Youtube.

Mark said...

Yea, the Motorhead song seemed to touch home just a little.

Roku and youtube need to get back together. It is the biggest complaint Roku has.