We love ROKU!

We indulged! A price of a cheap night out in NY ...$100. And it is soooooo worth it.

We have a Netflix subscription. We do the cheapest membership at $8.99 a month so by mail we get one DVD at a time. We thought it was pretty good because we rarely watch more than one DVD at a time and with work/gym etc we can wait the 2 days before the next one arrives. As a bonus you can watch loads of stuff free online on demand. That was pretty cool......

....until we were told about the Roku box. This is where as part of the on demand online feature it streams it directly to you TV. It's blinking awesome. It took just a few minutes to set up (program it to your wireless network) and then ta-da you go online and activate the box. Once you've done that you can then put stuff in your "watch instantly queue". Miraculously this turns up instantly on the TV - where you click "select" and watch. It takes less than a minute to load a movie or TV episode and then you watch. We have done a lot of watching this weekend and it's only jumped once or twice which is quite impressive given it's delivering movies across the wireless network.

A selection of what we've watched this weekend:

- Yes Minister
- Inspector Linley Mysteries (several)
- Vicar of Dibley finale episodes
- The Good Life (known in the US as The Good Neighbors)
- An old Doctor Who - Tom Baker was the Dr

Another cool this is that you unplug it and walk it to a different TV and it works there too. When we visit people (like Rach in Chicago) we'll for sure take it with us - it's the size of about 5 CDs stacked.

What a VERY lazy weekend.....