Benefit to a $100 Roku over a $100 BluRay player?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVSlE28hOgI
I use this at work a lot
Benefit to a $100 Roku over a $100 BluRay player?
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It was originally supposed to be up all week...but people are ass holes and "got back" at best buy by scamming them for thousands...so they put the limit on it. I found it all out too late.
We...
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The $100 Roku has ethernet.
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if ur wifi ever goes out, or you don't have it u r SOL with roku. but not with the blu ray player.
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cowboom www.cowboom.com has had wifi blue ray players for 25.00
right now 35.00 is the best price
http://www.cowboom.com/product/1046054
if you are not going to be playing a lot of dvds a used...
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Well since Roku can't play physical BR discs, I would say that that is its only flaw really. If you have a ton of BR movies on disc, then you would obviously need some sort of way to play them. :P
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:iagree:
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My PS3 is pretty user friendly.
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Lol I never heard anyone call a Sony product user friendly... I consider my Sony BR a pos compared to my roku.
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The Sony BR players is as close to an All in One Media Player currently. You can get them for cheap at 79.99 Costco BX59(aka S590), 79.99 S390, 99.99 S590. I use the S590 and SMP N200 which have a...
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I'm incredibly impressed by this. I wall mounted a TV in my bedroom, stuck the thing on the back of the TV and it just works. I can aim the remote almost anywhere in the room and it works. Compare to...
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It is important to find out what she has (or plan on getting), if she does not have amazon prime. netflix, etc then the roku wont be as useful.
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I have a network Samsung Bluray player thinking it could read the movies off my PC; nope, it can only read half of them or whatever. Ending up buying a WDTV Live as well to complement it.
Also, I...
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Something like that. I own several Rokus, but none with the motion sensitive remote. Don't expect anything on par with Wii games in terms of quality though, I'd expect closer to Android or...
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By free content I was more talking about things like the Twit Network, other podcasts, Revision 3, Chow.com tons of places. Basically RSS feeds with video. There are tons of them...
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I read that...is that like a Wii sort of controller or something?
Great points though. Thanks for the help. You guys are helping a lot, I didn't think there were many differences, and that...
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OK...that varies brand by brand even...Sony might have Crackle and Samsung might have Vudu...(or whatever have you).
We are looking at this for a friend of my wife's. She doesn't have anything...
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I haven't used that particular Blu-ray player before, but I think I can make a decent comparison. Your benefits of the Roku are:
1. Size. The thing's tiny. You can hide it anywhere.
2. Power...
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Mr Snarky edited his post to be less of an ass :cheers:
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OK...fine Mr Snarky :rolleyes: It was a generalize question but I was using the Sony because I already have a Sony TV...wanted to look brand loyal so it became my example... :lol: Plus it had 3D also...
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