Roku keeps adding ads, recommendations, and unnecessary complexity to a streaming experience that used to be so simple.

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 ...

With more people than ever getting their daily TV fix over the Internet, the battle is heating up for set-top boxes that deliver online video. Already one in five U.S. broadband households owns at ...

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 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. I’ve called the Roku LT “tiny,” but it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s talk about how the streaming TV revolution kind of sucks. At this point it has become clear that entrenched content providers have won this fight. No single streaming service can win the rights ...

While they both can stream an endless selection of shows and movies, it's all their other features you'll want to consider ...