Ordered a Roku Ultra to play around with it this weekend. Anybody have any performance feedback?

I have a client that's been using the roku and Spectrum app/channel for a while on some bedroom TVs. He seems to like it. Problem in my opinion is, no DVR and so far the onDemand libraries suck.

One thing that eerks me about the stream devices. Is the fact that you can't get the same response with it as you can with a DVR. When I press the jump back, or jump forward. I don't want to wait for the damn thing to buffer.

Surely it's not on my end as my down is 215Mbps and up is 11Mbps. This is true no matter the streaming device.

KOT

It is awesome. I would recommend you get a small MicroSD card to use in it however. If you load up a lot of channels and such, you will run out of internal memory. Then it has to "Re-Load" the app/channel every time you use it.
I have over 50 channels now loaded on the Roku Ultra and needed to get a MicroSD card. A 2GB is all you need to load a hundred apps/channels.

Kind of frustrating if you think about it. 2GB of flash costs nothing, so why didn't Roku just throw in a few extra GB to the memory? Another stupid engineer issue?

[edit]: I have 50 app/channels installed right now. But I needed the MicroSD card when I was at about 30ish???

It is a streaming only world going forth. each device you have will
have more ownership by xfinity or Spectrum. HP servers are being setup
as we speak.
I don't give a hoot . I am not a part of it..Carry on bitches. I'm out.

Add OOMA?

Here you don't need to (time warner/charter) You use your own modem, keep the all in one for voice only and they drop the monthly lease fee.

[Link: timewarnercable.com]

Found all in ones on amazon for $29 FYI. Docsis 3.0 ones with speeds the average joe won't see from their provider for 10 years are $99.

I've been saying for years that the ultimate business model for any company supplying anything on an ongoing basis is this: we'll charge everybody ten bucks a month, forever, and we'll be very happy about it!

Death of the cable box? That is, one less device for the cable company to maintain, to replace when needed, to stock, to keep track of? That sounds like a very good thing for the cable company.

Whatever you think of it, just don't think it's going to make things cost less. In fact, I think we have a new "pick any two out of three" scenario:

Less cost
More programming
Better equipment features

I'm reminded of Blue Diamond Almonds' ad campaign: "A jar a week, that's all we ask." 2015 sales set a new record of $1.5 billion.

Comcast should be so lucky!

In 6 months the average good quality cable modem is paid off once you're not paying lease fees. A few more months so is your router.

Why any integrator would want to walk onto the job site and see an all in one modem/router there is beyond me. I see nothing but network issues with them. They are shit. I want to own the network. Not deal with headaches from a low budget freebie combo unit.

Exactly. Every integrator should be pushing this. I applaud you for doing this. Amazed to see pushback on this from other integrators.

Then there's the fact that cable companies are pushing their unsecured wifi. You know the one that your leased modem puts out because they want to be the largest wifi providing company?

I know that as the end user you can disable that. But it's a waste of your time to do so. And from what I hear, every time there's a firmware update, you have to go through the process of having it disabled again.

With Dish Network and leasing. It's a little weird. I will talk about the Joey 2.0 because that's what I had to deal with. If you have the Joey leased, it cost $7.00 a month. Where if you have it disabled, you can only do so for 30 or 60 days or else Dish will tag on a $100.00 unreturned fee. Unless you return the Joey or reactivate it.

Or you can purchase the Joey 2.0 for $50 and pay the same $7.00 monthly fee. However, you can disable it for as long as you want as it's customer owned. Then you can reactivate it when you want as well.

KOT

Who said anything about an integrator or a job site? I said "MOST PEOPLE" as in the 98% of the population that are not our customers.

Are you trying to tell me that the average cable customer should buy their own modem/router/access point and pay someone to configure it for them...and then replace it when it fails.?

You will never OWN the networks i am talking about.


The original post is about a cable tv app. Does that sound like what you would push to your clients vs a cable box?


My response to this post about the average cable customer...that doesnt require our services.

Thanks for the clarification.

Me personally I tell everyone I know to ditch the provided modem and save some $. Nowadays with the simple setup wizards included on all the cheap desktop routers it would be pretty sad if they couldn't add a network name. A password. And click done but I wouldn't put it past a lot of people to fail miserably lol.


P.S. love that image. Def need to borrow it lol.