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 ...

Do you have an old, dumb TV? For years now, buying a Roku device has been the best way to give it new life. You plug in a cheap box or dongle, adding thousands of streaming channels to an old set---in ...

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 ...

The best thing about a Roku box (or stick) is how many channels it puts on your TV at little to no extra cost. The second best thing about it is how easy it is to set up. If your holiday bounty ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...