Roku boxes and TVs allow you to connect to the internet via Ethernet or Wi-Fi, while streaming sticks provide only the Wi-Fi option. Once you have your Roku device connected to power and powered on, ...

It’s easy to forget how big a splash the first Roku box made when it debuted on May 20, 2008. At launch, the device worked only with Netflix, best known at the time as a mail-order Blockbuster rival ...

SARATOGA, Calif. -- Roku is the company that makes the simply-named "Roku player," a $99 box that brings Internet movies and TV shows from Netflix and Amazon, and now baseball games, to your TV set.

It’s weird but true: of all the countless standalone Internet-TV-streaming boxes which have appeared over the past few years, just two have been unqualified successes. One is Apple TV. The other is ...

Roku is a brand of digital media streaming devices that offer content from a variety of services and providers through downloadable channels.

Roku has significantly expanded the available channels for its tiny streaming set-top box with the launch of the Roku Channel Store. The 10 available offerings at launch—all free—are a little thin, ...

Your smart TV may have a lot of valuable features, but sometimes a streaming stick like a Roku can do something a smart TV can’t. But do you need a Roku or another streaming device with a smart TV?

Your Roku works with two kinds of remotes: a simple infrared remote that doesn't need to be paired and an enhanced RF remote that needs to be paired.

Shares of Roku were up as much as 28% after it crushed its first earnings report as a public company. Roku credits the growth to its fast-growing platform business, which more than doubled from the ...