The Roku player has done a world of good by allowing you to stream the internet right to your TV without the need of a computer. It is basically a little box that you connect to your TV and start streaming content via wired or wireless connection to your modem. Yes, you still need a internet connection, and a fast one in that regard. Slow internet connections are useless.
The Roku player is a very simple device to use. To set up the Roku player should not take more than five minutes of your time. Just use the bluetoothed (the XS version) remote to setup and start streaming content from the Web. The Wii like remote can be used to play games using the Roku 2 XS. Currently, you get just one game on this version of the player. And the name of the game is Angry Bird. For those of you that haven't heard of this game, it is one of the more popular games specially on mobile devices.
There are paid subscriptions you can bet to watch movies, TV shows and on demand sports and other programs. Subscriptions like Netflix and HuluPlus allows you to watch latest movies and TV shows. And they cost less than $10 a month. A lot cheaper than cable.
