Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roku boxes and TVs allow you to connect to the internet via Ethernet or Wi-Fi, while streaming sticks provide only the Wi-Fi ...

Forget a Roku streaming video box: this year the company is building its famous video streaming service directly into televisions. Smart TVs with Roku’s Internet video streaming service—dubbed Roku ...

Too many ads for my liking.

In April 2016, Comcast said Xfinity cable customers would be able to forgo an expensive cable box before the end of the year and use a Roku box instead. The company missed that target, but the good ...

Back in March I told you about VideoBuzz, a third-party Roku channel that adds a desperately needed capability to the popular media-streaming boxes: YouTube. Alas, not long after, Roku ordered ...

Roku’s lovely $99 Netflix Streaming box, equipped with HDMI and optical outputs from day one, is getting Netflix HD streaming support by “the end of the year,” according to the company. With the ...

We hear news of online movie streaming all the time - more and more recently in relation to Netflix with their Roku box and impending Xbox 360 service. If you read between the lines (or on the lines ...

Roku's newly announced Streaming Stick packs all the functionality of a standard Roku box into a USB stick-style device, utilizing the new MHL connection type. Matthew Moskovciak Senior Associate ...

Remember when phones ditched the headphone jack, and we were all annoyed that phone makers had just taken away such a useful feature? Well, streaming boxes have lost an important connection too, but ...

Regular Ars Technica readers probably have no use for a new Roku device—or, at least, not in 2016. If you haven’t already watched media-streaming apps on your television using a game console, an HTPC ...

After weeks of leaks about the new products, Roku has officially announced its new line of streaming media boxes. The Los Gatos, California-based company has effectively replaced all of its media ...

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