PC Magazine Rates the Roku Player as a "Do Buy"

Lance Ulanoff from PC Magazine rates the Roku Player as a "Do Buy" in a recent story:

Do Buy: Roku Netflix Player This $99 set-top box will open up your living room to a whole library of video content and is way cheaper than a new Blu-ray player. The current Netflix on-demand selections are, admittedly, limited, but there are many great movies, with a decent number of newish ones in the mix. Plus, I expect that Netflix will eventually open up first-run films to this service.

Caveat: If you already own an Xbox 360, you'll be able to access the very same library of Netflix movies on demand. (One can only hope Sony will get around to adding Netflix functionality to the PS3.) In that case, maybe you just give yourself the gift of a Netflix account.

Comments

[MCW]

Poor old PC Mag. It's sad that they couldn't hold up in the print mag industry... It's going to be weird not to get an issue next month.

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[ZeroCorpse]

Maybe if their reporting were better, they'd be OK.

That article should mention that your Xbox 360 can only do the same as the Roku box if you spend $40 for a yearly subscription to Live Gold.

It could also mention the noise, power requirements, etc.

[John Kimble]

Not to mention the completely inaccurate line of "Plus, I expect that Netflix will eventually open up first-run films to this service." If the reviewer knew anything all of the film industry or how the business end of it works they would know that Netflix has absolutely no control over the IW content and that it is all up to the studios. The studios need to give the rights to there films to Netflix, not Netflix just sitting around with content waiting to just put it up. It leaves just this bad impression that they really have all of this control over the content thats on the website when really its just take whatever they can get, when they can get it. So it just seems very misleading, of course NEtflix is going to try and get more and more first run titles, but the thought again that anyone will be all digital is absurd at the moment just because of the idea of what an all digital library would do to DVD/Blu-Ray/Cable/Satelite/Retailers/Hardwarwe AMnufactuerers all of these people woul;d be hit by a change to all digital because a lot of those would be hit very hard in the pocket and Netflix frankly doesn't have the capital to back up the studios for the money the would lose out on elsewhere. Can you imagine a studio trying to make money only off Box Office receipts and Streaming Online, they wouldn't be making money from all the other places they normally do, DVD/Blu-Ray/Selling rights to HBO/Starz/Showtime/cable providers and the money made from developing new forms of delivering content ie. Sony's Blu-Ray. Money will also be lost by the manufactuerers of DVD Players/ Blu-Ray Players because eventually more and more people would switch over to Netflix because we would have every movie and TV show available to you whenever you wanted it would be 100% on demand entertaiment and unfortunately everyone would end up suffering.

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