Electronics

[Princess_Poo]

We recently purchased the Roku 3. We have too much foliage and cannot seem to get Dish Service. We love the Roku except when watching QVC. After about an hour, we get a message asking if we are still watching QVC. This is the only channel we have had this problem with. I am not always in the room, usually just listening to the program and I need to stop what I'm doing, go into the living room and click ok. This is not a big problem but it is very annoying. I contacted Roku and they said it is with the QVC Channel. I contacted QVC and they said it is a setting in the Roku. Does anyone know how I can turn this off? Guess I can turn QVC off - that would solve the problem, but really, how do I fix this? Thank you!

[duclane]

Hi Mine does the same thing-so annoying. I gave up and only do QVC online now. Don't want to sit and watch when I can see the videos online. But for other problems I always go to live chat on the Roku site. Sometimes they are helpful sometimes not. You can look through helpful hints and see if there is an answer also.

[seehorse]

I'm very interested in Roku to get out of cable bill. How do you like it?

Pros? Cons?

Thanks so much!

[duclane]

I have had it for 4 years now and I like it. I was never a big TV watcher-only watching certain programs and paying way too much for the junk that is on now. I used to spend 20 min surfing and not watching. So I get to pick what I want now. 7.99 for Netflix. Hundreds of channels and some games. I only use Comcast for the internet.

[willdob3]

I've got the Roku Streaming Media Stick. I get the "Still listening?" question with other channels, too.

I mostly listen to music on mine. I found out that it will stop due to inactivity if you don't let it know you're still listening. I think an option to skip that would be nice.

What I get with QVC only is a frequent message saying there was a network error & to check my Internet connection. I click OK & it takes me back to my home page where I have to select the channel again. Very annoying & I put up with it a couple times then give up and switch channels. My connection is fine.

[karlam]

I get the same message on HSN. I always assumed because they are streaming a live tv show and not a video like on Hulu or Netflix.

[willdob3]

I have not had Roku for long & am still learning.

My one complaint is that most of the free things are really old and not anything I am interested in watching. To really enjoy it is going to cost me more money. Hulu Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.

I like listening to music on it, I like being able to view shopping on my TV as it frees up my computer for other things. I tried streaming live local news but it did not work well at all.

[Meeras]

got the same message

[Suzeecat]

I get that message from time to time, but more often, when watching Netflix with my Roku 3 the show/movie I'm watching just stops and I get a message saying that I should try watching later. I have to go back to the Netflix home page and click through again and wait for it to reload. It will usually start playing where I left off but it may take several tries. Irritating, but I'm not sure it's a Roku issue, a Netflix issue, or an issue with my cable/internet provider.

[duclane]

It seems to be an internet issue. I've called my server and they send a reboot and then Roku is fine. I also do a reboot myself unplug Roku box from the back, and the server box and internet box all at once-wait a few minutes re plug them all and that works also