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 WOW July 30, 2010
lisa mitchell
I have never wrote a review and I have many great products from Amazon but this is awesome. Easy to hook up and easy to use. The channels you get will for free is unreal and so much fun...connect to pictures on facebook..neat and videos with out commercials...you have got to get this. NO MORE CABLE OR DISH OR DIRECT NEEDED.
 Can't Recommend IT July 30, 2010
doctorg13 (Western Montana)
I purchased this direct from Roku. It would not connect to the internet with either of the two wireless routers that I have even though it indicated that it connected to my network. Each of these routers works with multiple Windows PC, Apple, and Linux notebooks with no problems. I then tried a direct ethernet cable connection. It still would not connect to the internet. I contacted Roku through their webpage. I quickly received an automated reply promising an answer within 2 business days. That promised answer has not arrived and the time has passed. I am unable to recommend the purchase of this product.
worth every penny July 30, 2010
Emmit W. Stewart (Canton, OH USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this box because I had been watching my netflix instant play on my computer monitor and had lots of problems: reduced picture quality, frequent long pauses to adapt when my computer slowed down and mediocre sound. Not to mention that my monitor has a smaller screen. I wanted something that would work with my television and home theatre sound system.
I had read ads on my neflix jackets for quite a few devices that would give me the features that I wanted, but most of them cost a lot more and had features I did not want (such as video games, which I do not play, and blu-ray players, Which I already had) When the ad came for roku, it looked like the best deal on price and features, so I ordered it. I ordered the HD version since my tv was hi-def and the Roku HD player was only fifteen dollars more.
When it came, I was not able to install it for another month because my computer did not have a router, but this was an easily solved problem and I found out that the cheapest router I could find worked just fine. Once I had my router installed, setup was amazingly easy and as the ad said, I was watching movies in less than a half hour.
I think that the picture quality is outstanding. Perhaps it is not quite as good as from my Blu-Ray player, but it is much better than a standard picture, and, the difference is not noticeable to me. There are a few pauses where the picture quality needs to be adjusted, but not very often, and the pauses are very short, usually less than twenty seconds. On my computer, the pauses often came as many as five to ten times during a single movie and lasted as long as five to twenty minutes.
The sound quality is excellent and makes full use of my surround sound system. In fact. I often have to turn it down because the sound in some tv programs, particularly during the opening credits can be painfully loud, but this the fault of the producerss of the shows,not the Roku.
I am totally happy with my Roku. With it I can be watching movies and shows twenty four hours a day seven days a week if I wanted to. But who wants to?
I haven't cut down the number of Netflix I take at a time because, right now, there aren't nearly as many titles available for streaming, and the newest releases aren't available for streaming at all.
With the other sources available, such as Amazon Video on Demand it's possible for a fee to watch videos that have a long waiting list from netflix. There are quite a few other internet sources available, and possibly more in the future.
Altogether, this is the best entertainment value Ive found since the invention of widescreen HD tv.
Superb - though a little WPA2 wireless gotcha you should watch for July 29, 2010
Ste Cork
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been a Netflix streaming customer for a while through my XBox 360, and love it. I wanted to do the same for our bedroom so picked the Roku as being the cheapest player rather than buying another console. I'm fussy about security, so I use WPA2 and only allow specified MAC addresseses to connect ( i.e. the Xbox 360 and the Roku ). My Xbox never had any problem, but the Roku completely failed to connect, even when 2 feet away from the router. It could see the network, but was denied. I called Roku's tech support ( long wait on hold, but at least they were eventually available ), and after 20+ minutes we finally figured out that even though my router allows 8-63 char passwords, the 9-char one I was using ( which was fine for the Xbox360 ) made the Roku sulk. I added another digit on to make it 10-chars, changed the Xbox and Roku to also be 10 chars, then it suddenly worked perfectly. Go figure. I'm guessing a firmware bug at the Roku end, but an easy one to bypass.
Roku wireless reception is superb - Apple should ask their engineers to fix the iPhone 4. Example: My wireless router is now (still) on the basement floor, my Xbox is 1 floor up in the lounge, and the Roku is up another floor from that, in our bedroom, yet reception is perfect. I generally get 3/4 dots on the Roku strength meter, and that shows up pretty much perfectly. No hitches/blockiness/whatever. I'll probably pick up another couple of these boxes for the other TVs in the house - they're only 1.5x our monthly cable bill after all, and I'll be ditching that anyway. For comparison, my connection is an ADSL line, "up to" 3mbps, but usually around 2mbps ( thx, AT&T ). I'll probably also use another Roku box instead of the Xbox for the lounge, since a) you can seek forwards/backwards on the Roku without the movie resetting to the start ( which the Xbox Netflix app *always* does ), and the playback quality from the same signal is far better - maybe being dedicated helps with signal processing? I just know I've never seen any blockiness from it even at times when the xbox gets a bit pixelly.
Can't recommend this thing high enough, it's also silent due to no fan. That's the one issue, I'd like to have an on/off switch just for my own piece of mind when out of the house, for reasons of fire/electricity bill etc. But leaving it on means you don't have to wait for couple of minutes for the boot sequence. It's only about 6w consumption anyway.
Works as stated July 29, 2010
Eileen Gorman (Calverton, NY United States)
Arrived quickly and works as stated. The menu is a bit cumbersome, one foreign film had the subtitles off the screen, and it glitches every now and then claiming the signal weakened, but overall works fine. I'd like to see it offered for $50 instead of $100 so it can be purchased for multiple TVs in the house.
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