<p>I ended up getting a Roku from woot today. Sparked by this discussion. I will let you know how it goes. My main things are local media and Pandora. I will bee using Plex media server to stream my local video files to the Roku. Hope it work good.<br>
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Ryan</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2011 4:50 PM, "Don Ellis" <<a href="mailto:don.ellis@gmail.com">don.ellis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Oh, and I meant to say I've had pretty good luck with Woot, for the<br>
most part. Returned an Altec alarm clock/radio because of poor design.<br>
I've returned several Jawbone BT headsets I got from a similar site<br>
(Daily Steals) because the batteries have gone stale.<br>
<br>
--Don Ellis<br>
<br>
<br>
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Don Ellis <<a href="mailto:don.ellis@gmail.com">don.ellis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Be aware that the units I have checked (Apple TV 2, Sony Dash) do not<br>
> play Hulu free, just Hulu Plus.<br>
><br>
> Also, when Woot.com offered a Chumby 8, there was no mention of<br>
> Netflix service (which does work with most of the others mentioned).<br>
> Doesn't mean it doesn't do Netflix, but that should be a basic<br>
> assumption. (btw, my Sony Dash [Chumby version] plays Netflix, but<br>
> sometimes spends way too long rebuffering)<br>
><br>
> Not having used the Roku variant, I would be glad to get one now,<br>
> either v1 or v2, except that I have a sufficient supply of Netflix<br>
> players at the moment.<br>
><br>
> --Don Ellis<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Matthew Seeley<br>
> <<a href="mailto:matthew@threadlight.com">matthew@threadlight.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I'll plus one the roku suggestion. I have the older one with usb and its<br>
>> very nice. Especially for netflix, hulu, and rdio<br>
>><br>
>> On Dec 17, 2011 1:22 PM, "Richard Nienhuis" <<a href="mailto:richardnienhuis@gmail.com">richardnienhuis@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Those are actually roku 1 machines not roku 2.<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Dagny Scott <<a href="mailto:parsleyfirefly@gmail.com">parsleyfirefly@gmail.com</a>><br>
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