Roku’s Netflix Player Day 1…
Its here, setup, and running. It was up and running in literally 5 minutes. The longest part was fishing the power cable to the device. Once powered on everything was a breeze.
So how’s the quality? At 100% it looks exactly like standard definition signal on a high definition TV, which isn’t dvd quality (well maybe on a shitty dvd player with a dvd with an absolute crap transfer). But that is what I was expecting. It’s completely watchable, and considering that most of the Watch Instantly titles are either tv shows or older movies I don’t see any problems. At the lower streams was very reminiscent of a high quality you tube video being shown at full screen.
Going forward I definitely want to see HD Streams with many more titles available, specifically newer releases. And I want all that sooner rather than later.
More photos can be found here.
Day 1 Review Score: *** (Completely worth 100 bucks).
Roku’s Netflix Player Day 0+8…
Woooo it shipped. Picked up today by Fedex. No info on a schedule delivery date. I would assume Wednesday of next week.
Roku’s Netflix Player Day 0+6…
My player hasn't shipped yet. Apparently it exceeded Roku's expectations. Suppose to ship this week. We'll see.
Roku’s Netflix Player Day 0…
Netflix finally released their set top box. With it you’ll be able view any of their watch instantly titles on your tv. You can see a more in-depth review at gizmodo. 100 bucks, I couldn’t resist myself, so I went ahead and ordered one. I'm assuming it will be here next week.
My rational:
It’s only 100 bucks.
It’s cool as hell.
The device is theoretically capable of HD and 5.1 audio, so no need to wait for a new device.
Any way to speed up Netflix is fine with me.
My concerns:
It’s only streaming, no hard drive.
Well streaming only certainly cuts the hardware costs…and probably the legal costs since nothing will actually reside on the device. But I would have really like a hard drive based one…start the download at work, ready when I get home in great quality. Oh well.
Why it can theoretically support HD, will it ever?
Netflix would have to be retarded to not have HD in the pipeline. Why give it an hdmi port if not?
The watch instantly catalog is lacking.
Hopefully Netflix will step it up and drastically expand it. I’m sure the movie companies will have to be taken kicking and screaming.
Uwe Boll Will Quit Making Movies with One Million Signatures
Uwe Boll may be one of the greatest directors of all time. Why? None of his film make any profit that I can see. All of them get universally panned. Yet somehow in the face of that failure he is still able to convince people to give him money to make a film. There is no other director that I can think of that could have that much failure and still churn out films. Spielberg couldn't had a down spell like that and still get money from his own company. Katzenberg and Geffen would change the locks on the doors.
Yet somehow Uwe continues to march on...