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Review: Roku Netflix Set Top Box is Just Shy of Totally Amazing (wired.com)
7 points by apgwoz on May 20, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


For the last few weeks, I've been watching streaming Netflix movies on a 100 inch screen. The quality is better than expected, although your mileage may vary depending on how big a pipe you have. I just pull up Netflix in a browser, choose my movie, and put it on full screen mode.

The Roku $100 price is amazing. If I hooked it up to my DLP projector, the video quality would be similar to my current setup since it's mainly bandwidth-dependent.


If only they had a bigger selection of downloadable content, I could ditch my cable...

Also, I'd rather not stream in (potentially HD) video. My internet connection is flaky enough as is. It /will/ die during the movie.




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