Netflix Box


I received my Roku Netflix box yesterday. For those who haven't seen or heard of this, it's basically a box that allows you to play movies on your TV that you have added to your Netflix Instant Queue. What I find nice about the idea is that it's $99 and nothing more. (Apple TV charges you for each movie rental, and you only have 24 hours to complete the movie - which is an issue, if you have crazy work and kid schedules like we do.) 


The setup was pretty close to nothing. You plug it into your TV, choose your wifi access point, enter a code on the website, and all your movies appear on the TV. Choose a movie, and it starts playing immediately. On the downside... there are not a lot of great titles to watch because the list is quite a bit smaller for the instant shows/movies as compared to the regular DVD rentals.

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Karl
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I've been dying to see about this thing. How is the video quality? How much of a bandwidth hog is it?
Schomer
I'm the wrong person to ask about video quality. I guess I'm not picky. I can see the difference between high def and regular TV, but not much else. I think this unit downloads the highest quality that it can for the available download speed. When you start it up, there's a quality thing that appears on screen - from 1 to 4 dots. Mine is on 4 dots - which I assume means the best quality. I get about 15 megabits per second for my download speed here, which seems good for a home connection. I'd say it looks to be about DVD quality.
Kristine
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Thanks for the review. I really like the idea of this. I could watch Netflix's available movies on my computer but my primary computer is a mac these days, so that's not really an option. So this would be a greatway to do it... if only they had a really good selection. I'm hoping that this partnership will get them working harder to expand their collection to more things people have actually heard of!! :)
farrow
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Zak Klemmer
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Let me know how this works. I have tried to watch Netflix instant movies on my computer but the download speed causes stalls and stops.
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