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Great device, user palpate could be better : Roku 2 XS 1080p Streaming Player
I owned a last-generation Roku Hd prior to purchasing the new Roku 2 Xs so jumping from the allocation model to the newer deluxe model was a big leap for me.
The size is much smaller, smaller footprint than Apple Tv, but just a bit taller. Still the trademark jeans tag but no more visual audio, component video, or dual-band wireless. None of these things positively affect me, but I though I'd point it out. My Hdmi goes into my Hdtv and out an visual cable into my receiver and I positively never even understood what dual-band even meant. There is a new Sd card slot. Upon inserting one it will ask you if you want to format it. It'll then use the card for supplementary storage. Even without the Sd card, there was clearly more space on the player. I didn't have any room for more channels on my old Roku, but on this one I added at least 6 more included Angry Birds and still had space. Again, there is no power button, but the power consumption is very diminutive in standby mode. They claim it's to push software updates to the system, but I think that's a lame excuse. My computer gets software updates all the time without me having to keep it on 24/7. My old Roku...you could tell when you had to restart it because it would just stop performing as well as it should and you'd have to pull the plug and restart it.
The biggest disagreement is Netflix. It now supports 1080p, Dolby Digital Plus, and instead of determining your bit-rate and then playing a constant bit-rate until the end, it now doesn't show the usual 4 dots or Hd gauge, it just starts playing right away at a lower potential and increases the potential on the fly once it gets a caches for a few seconds (or lowers it if there's a drop in your association - I have yet to see this happen). This provides very short loading times and minimizes re-buffering.
The user interface is familiar. Some disagreement are the white and navy color palette are swapped with dark grey and purple, a bouncing keen boot logo, new loading screens, and a more user-friendly settings menu. I'm disappointed that the menus are still so static other than the new boot logo and the loading spinner. Switching in the middle of channels is like watching a slideshow of static images. There is no movement or animation with sailing other than in the Netflix channel or channels that use that same layout.
I was interested to see if Hulu Plus would work better on the new, more suited Roku players. My thinking being that maybe it crashed and lagged because of a lack of memory or suited system. Sadly it is still the same buggy, laggy, oftentimes crashing mess. I guess it's just the channel itself.
My beloved highlight of the gaming remote is positively that it's Bluetooth and you don't have to point the remote at the Roku as you do with the regular infrared remote. Since the only game that uses the gaming functionality is Angry Birds, I can only criticism on my palpate with that. I was positively very surprised when I saw that you could aim the remote at the screen to move a cursor around, just like on Wii. I didn't think this was possible without a sensor bar, but it works quite well although not perfect. The remote features both a gyroscope and an accelerometer, so it's basically the same technology motion sensing technology as the Wii Remote Plus minus the sensor bar. I wouldn't expect anyone crazy in terms of the games that will be ready on Roku, I'm thinking the potential will be somewhere colse to what you get on Android store or Apple App Store, none of the super industrialized 3D stuff you'd see on actual gaming consoles, but they are aiming to have games be allocation priced at 5 bucks or under. I'm kind of wondering if Nintendo will do anyone legally about the gaming remote. The design, button layout, motion sensing and wrist strap screams Nintendo! The theory supports two players and supplementary gaming remotes will eventually be available, together with for people with Hd and Xd models that don't comprise one at all.
The Usb preserve is pretty minimal. Wmv/Asf up to 480p, Mp4 and Mov up to 1080p. Mkv was supported, but there are problems with preserve for it at the moment according to customer service. They positively removed it from the list of supported formats on the website. Audio formats supported are Mp3 and Aac. Image formats are Jpg and Png. They promise a software update in September 2011 that enables "Full Usb functionality" and I positively hope that includes Avi and Mpeg support! any people come on here to write reviews only complaining about how it won't play their local files and all I have to say is that is that Roku is a streaming internet video player. If your focus is playing local files, buy something like a Wd Tv Live. Their local file preserve is great and full-featured, but their streaming internet video is lacking to say the least. It's positively a quiz, of which is more leading to you as neither is perfect at both.
All in all, I'm very pleased with my buy and now have a Roku in two rooms!
******Update******:
-Roku has removed any mention of a the September 2011 update that enables "Full Usb functionality" and it looks like they have no intention of fixing Mkv support. This is very disappointing as they were advertising it when the device first was released and everyone bought it.
-Second thing to point out is that programs like Plex media server now work on the new units. Some people returned the player or wrote bad reviews because it wasn't initially working, but now it's fine.
-Still no revamped YouTube channel as promised.
-After some time with the unit, I can tell you that the batteries in the Bluetooth remote drain much faster than the thorough remote, and investing in an supplementary Ir remote may be ideal. I just wish they offered the the new remotes for buy separately because they are still selling the last generation ones.
-Roku promised strong game developer support, but so far there are about a dozen games and the only decent ones are Angry Birds. The gaming idea was a dud if you ask me.
I've positively removed a star from my retell because I don't like when clubs make promises, and then go back on them and act like they were never made! After finding the new Wd Tv Live line which is a big revising over the last generation I'm enticed to make the switch. It now supports basically all things the Roku Xs does plus Spotify, YouTube, CinemaNow, Blockbuster, has a first-rate user interface, supports local file playback straight through Usb or over the network with just about any media, and visual digital audio out. Their more pricey Hub model also has 1Tb internal storehouse and component video out.Please Check Update Here!!
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