Got my new Netflix Roku box
This thing is amazing! I just received it earlier in the week. They have over 10,000+ movies available.
The thing is $99 and runs off of your current netflix account. It’s pretty sweet the way it works too.
You can hook it up to the TV with component, composite, S-Video, or HDMI. It also has an Ethernet port and built-in WiFi. I find the connection to be stronger with a wired connection. I currently have it hooked up via composite and the quality is DVD quality.
It’s pretty nifty the way it works too. You add the movies you want to watch to an Instant Queue on the Netflix site, and they instantly appear on the Roku box. When you start to watch a movie, it takes about 30 seconds to buffer the stream, but then you’re ready to go. The cool thing that I like a lot is the skipping forward / backward feature. It’s like a cross between fastforwarding and scene selection. You see a little screenshot for about every 30 seconds. So you can skip right to where you want to start watching.
One tip for any that puts it behind a router, make sure that your DNS settings are right. I had a static DNS IP for DNS #1 and the true dynamic DNS server IP’s for 2 and 3. The Roku box would recognize a connection, but the “Connection to the Internet” part would fail. I fixed up the DNS thing to just dynamic, and it’s all set. The two flashing lights was driving me nuts.
If you like movies, you need this!