Comments on: Cord Cutters: Taking a first look at the Roku 3

By: rob

rob — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:26:37 +0000

i loved the headphone jack idea but there doesn’t seem to be any way to control the volume and it’s far too loud. I tried the cheapy earbuds supplied by roku, but I also tried my earbuds from another device, which have a volume control (which evidently just talks to the source to turn the volume down vs actually reducing the signal on it’s own). anyway, any help would be appreciated. thanks!

By: creativewaves

creativewaves — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:21:57 +0000

I have the new Roku 3. Having very different tastes than my teenage daughter, the headphones came in handy. I can watch tv in my sewing room and not be disturbed by what she is watching in the family room next door. We love that new add on. I also like the new menu. Scrolling through channels was a bother before. Now it is much more convenient to look for channels, as well as search for shows and choose which channel I want to view them on.

I am happy with the purchase and it is worth the $99 for me. :)

By: MM

MM — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:22:35 +0000

My late wife was hearing impared and would have pounced on the roku 3 if it were available to her back then. I’m going to get one ordered immediately as I require less sleep than my current wife and will use the headphones nightly. We already have the Angry Birds roku and have used it daily for a couple of years without a problem. I’m excited to try the new user interface. My only frustrations have been motion sickness from scrolling all the way through the long queue (which is solved by the new interface) and the remote can eat batteries rapidly if it gets moved around alot.

By: Andrew Garcia

Andrew Garcia — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 06:21:53 +0000

the Headphone jack on the remote is a God-send for the hearing impaired. I am buying a Roku 3 just for that…….and getting rid of me cable box!!

By: Dogman

Dogman — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:25:45 +0000

Click on the 2nd video display, not the 1st one in the summary area

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:48:23 +0000

On my unit the sound thru the headphones cuts in and out. Not really useable.

By: laura

laura — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:24:41 +0000

does the roku3 have the option to select 720p for those of us with 720p tvs?

By: Zelph

Zelph — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:43:25 +0000

As a couch potato with hearing problems. Let me say that my wife has blessed Roku with extra candles and says they need to be sainted. I purchased ‘TV ears’ years ago and had to replace the ears pieces numerous times at $5.00 a pop, very expensive not unlike toner for the $39 printers at Wally World. It is on my children’s suggestion list for ‘Mother’s Day’, my birthday in June and Father’s Day. Hope someone will save me the money.

By: Warren

Warren — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:40:39 +0000

I am constantly getting the error “This video isn’t encoded for your device, win 8/Google Chrome.

By: Rosebud

Rosebud — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:52:42 +0000

Janko– do you know if the new processor enables higher quality streams or H.264 levels in the Plex server? In Plex’s advanced preferences, it currently says that the highest level of H.264 supported is 4.0, though it goes up to 5.1. I imagine the new box would be more capable.