Logitech Revue Google TV Media Player w/ Keyboard for $80 + free shipping

Quote from dancergrrrl3 : TigerDirect offers the Logitech Revue Google TV Media Player with Keyboard Remote, model no. 970-000001, for $99.99. Coupon code "AGO54082" cuts it to $79.99 with free shipping. LINK [tigerdirect.com]

TigerDirect has had this for much cheaper... ~$55 After Rebate a few weeks ago.
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The same deal will be back around Black Friday, so I would hold off on this.

Don't buy a Revue! It can't play MKV's

Does it come with Kevin Bacon?

Save your money, I got one of these and I don't use it. Is there anything cool I can do with it? I noticed the added apps.

It might be cool if I had the camera.

Ideas?

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Quote from halzeimers : . . . Is there anything cool . . .

I use it to view Amazon prime video mostly; also works good for youtube. It does NOT play some video formats, and I don't know if there is ongoing support. But if mine broke, I would likely get another one or something similar -- this is just an android player with a nice keyboard.

I might also try to see if an xbox would work for me and provide additional functionality.

Quote from DimitroffVodka : Don't buy a Revue! It can't play MKV's

Please don't tell my revue that...it seems quite certain it can...then again I use GTVBox Video Player (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details"?id=net.gtvbox.videoplayer&feature=search_result)

Even then this is a bad price for a revue now that 2nd edition smart tv players are coming out and the android tv players like the UG802 are as cheap as $30 in some cases.


* I have both a revue (ok 2..the 2nd was a refurb for like $55)......and a UG802.....the UG802 will run xbmc and several other things and is fully rooted unlike the revue....custom roms now have Jelly Bean for the UG802 and have eliminated the audio/video sync issues some reported on earlier roms.) Even as a revue owner who happily continues to use his daily to make a dumb tv in bedroom "smart" enough to connect to the htpc in living room I would not recommend buying a revue NOW with the advances made and if you do, then certainly pay the $3 or so for GTVBox player which adds things like subtitle support and smb streaming.

http://www.appbrain.com/user/fame...(google-tv) <-- apps on my revue...mostly sideloaded from my phones but might be of interest...has a free app that forces the revue into landscape mode which allows ALOT of apps that won't normally install to do so.

I also have the GTV Video Player. Still can't play all the formats I like. Has problems with a lot of audio codecs.

I've got the revue but I use Plex for streaming all of my videos. I've got it hardwired and it can handle mkv's that I have which are up to 16GB's in size. Im sure over wifi it might be tough to handle the big files, but hardwired and with plex I can vouch for this working with mkv files, and big ones at that. The price is another issue. I paid well under $80 for a refurb about 5 months ago.