Quote Originally Posted by sycld View Post
I suppose you could turn on your PC and hook it up to your TV through an HDMI port whenever you want to watch television or movies, but that seems to not make much sense when you can get a Roku or similar device that is designed to just perform this one task and thus performs it faster and more efficiently.
normal people don't know to do that, and people that know how often don't want to.

Things like the roku boxes really add quite a bit of value to streaming services, unless you've already got a current-gen console to do the job.