Streaming movies to TV

Streaming movies to TV :

            This post discuss about the streaming of movies from internet to TV via Roku player.

 What is Roku?

            Roku is a media player which connects to your television either wired or wireless.

It also comes in different versions. It’s a HD player.

            For Roku player to function you should be having a good router. It should atleast be a G router or N is better.

            With Roku player you can watch instant movies from a lot of available movie streaming services. One great example being Netflix.The other is Amazon instant video.

 I connected the roku player wirelessly to the router and started streaming netflix videos to my HDTV.

I was suspecting the picture quality before I bought the player but the picture quality was very good.It is not like a HD channel but you get a very good picture quality similar to the one from an upconverting DVD player.At that time netflix is the major channel that was available in the ROKU player.There were few other documentary channels like the NASA tv etc.

Then amazon added its channel to ROKU, which I mentioned already. It is called Amazon instant video, where you can rent movies, watch trailers etc. That’s where the channel lineup started building up.

Now if you see the channel line up in ROKU player there are a lot of paid channels and free channels available for ROKU.

One doesn’t have to have a cable or any other TV sources except the ROKU player. Most of the tv shows you can watch from HULU plus.

There is a whole free movie channel available in ROKU called as CRACKLE which has a lot of movies to watch with very few advertisements.

For the Indian population they have a huge line up of the channels.

As for as the indian community are concerned they get dish tv or the direct tv to watch their favorite language channel.Even if they don't watch indian channels when their parents visit from India they install dish or direct tv with or without contracts.

But if you have a ROKU player you can have most of the channels without the need for any equipment installation.

Here are a few channel lineups in ROKU:

Channellive - offers Tamil channels(Sun TV, Kalaignar TV, Jaya TV, Mega TV, Isai Aruvi, Jaya Max, Angel TV Free*: Chutti TV, Podhigai),Telugu channels,Kannada channels and is in testing phase of malayalam channels.

BOMTV - offers over 15 Malayalam channels(Asianet news,Asianet ,Asianet Plus,Asianet USA,india vision,Kairali news,MCN,Jeevan TV ,Powervision ,Shalom,Yes Channel ).

ReliableIPTV - offers lot of Telugu channels(ETV,MAATV,GeminiTV,LocalTV,TV1,Vanitha TV,ATV) and news channels. 

Bollywood - This is a free channel that offers Bollywood movies and shows.

The above said are only a small fraction of what ROKU offers.If interested go to http://www.roku.com/ to see the channel line up.

 Now the newly introduced ROKU player has a famous built in game”Angry Birds”.