I think the way TV is headed, there is very little reason to record anything. "Live TV" is an old school way of looking at things. I think all shows will just be on demand, therefore you will be able to watch, pause, etc at will. Maybe some day, but today "live TV" is currently ...

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You may be able to have it pass through something, like a modern stereo receiver, but I don't have experience with that. I'm surprised the TV can't handle 720p, that's rare to be 1080i only.

I recall some of the earliest high-definition TVs were 1080i & 480i only.

How long of a HDMI cable are you using?

Can you try a different HDMI cable?

For whatever it's worth, I just experienced the problem on my Vizio "Smart TV": about 51 minutes into Masters of the Univrese my TV rebuffered and never got past 25% refilling the buffer. Comcast (120Mbps download / 12Mbps upload) Salem, Oregon I reported on the Netflix web site as a video...

The Netflix recommended Internet download speeds from https://help.netflix.com/article/en/node/306 are: Minimum: 0.5 Mbps (I don't know anyone who would be happy with this) Recommended: 1.5Mbps (again, most people I know won't like this) SD quality: 3.0 Mbps recommended HD quality: 5.0 Mbps recommen...

I have a friend with slow satellite download speeds and a data cap and quite high latency. He loves Roku and uses it with Plex primarily but would like to use Netflix and something like this might allow him to use Netflix. I saw the device mentioned on another board (again without anyone stating th...

It is possible that the change in behavior is unintended and may return in the future. I had reported via the Netflix web site video quality problems and described the issue by going to "My List", clicking on "Report problem" to the right of the title that had the issue, click on...

With the "advanced streams" (the streams the first-genreation Roku Netflix Players used after a software upgrade that came out a long time ago), the 1.5 Mbps stream is the 4 dots or full SD. HD would be 2.6 or 3.8 Mbps. A 7Mbps network should support a 2.6 or a 3.8Mbps stream. I have a &qu...

Some TVs will display a model number if one digs into the menus. One of my TVs, for example, once one brings up the main menu, there is a button one can press for "Service Information"; and the other TV will display that if one goes into the main menu, System. So you might look through men...

I normally just use http://www.speedtest.net/ (which is IPv4 only) or http://speedtest.comcast.net/ (tests both IPv4 and IPv6 throughputs but some may be concerned about vendor bias since Comcast not only is an ISP but also is hosting their speedtest servers, though I usually find both the generic o...

Your HDTV is not upscaling 720p content. That is the native resolution for your HDTV. Your issue is a non-issue. The Roku works with the EDID supported formats, and the native resolution of your HDTV is 720p. Sorry, but if the native resolution is 1365x768, the TV is rescaling ALL input formats. Ma...

Some UPSes (a.k.a., battery backups) also do that: when the "master outlet" is drawing more than a certain amount of current, the other outlets are powered; otherwise the power is killed on them. In the case of my UPS units, there is a configuration setting to allow or disable such behavio...

More specifically, check the video and screen settings of the TV when the TV is set to the port the Roku is connected to. (Some TVs have separate settings for each video port, so it could be set correctly for two inputs and "stretch" or horizontal zoom for the port the Roku is connected to.)

As much as DVRs will be a dinosaur sometime. Just 2.5 years ago when the cable company dropped the analog feeds and went exclusively digital, I disconnected the VCRs and started renting a DVR from the cable company. I, and almost half of the TV households in America, are hoping that the "somet...

Also note that some channels won't work with the original generation of Rokus. If you are having issues adding a specific channel, post its name and someone may be able to confirm that it won't or will work with the original Roku generation. (My Roku "Netflix Player" is, as far as I am awa...