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My Review of Roku 2 XD Streaming Player

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Originally submitted at Roku

Features the highest-quality HD streaming available.


Great device limited by your ISP

By Seattle Guitarguy from Seattle, WA on 3/31/2012

 

4out of 5

Pros: Easy to set up, Reliability, Video selection, Easy to use, Built in Wi-Fi, High quality picture, Compact, Great value

Cons: Want more video choices

Best Uses: Living room, Bedroom

Describe Yourself: Home entertainment enthusiast, Netflix fan

This is a GREAT product for streaming, but its biggest drawback is an issue not caused by Roku, but rather your ISP. I specifically bought it for use with Amazon Video and HBO Go. Amazon Video has been great, but I found out Comcast blocks HBO Go on Roku and Xbox. Of course I didn’t know this till after I already bought it.

So be aware of the limitations by your ISP, but other than that its a GREAT unit, and probably the best streaming box available.

(legalese)

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March 31st, 2012 at 5:18 pm

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ME2 action figure 4 pack

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I pre-ordered this.  Yes, I’m a nerd. But it comes with a free t-shirt dammit!

ME2 figures

ME2 action figure 4 pack.

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August 28th, 2010 at 10:56 pm

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Mass Effect 2

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Playing it again. Doing my last class left to play, Sentinel run through. Still very fun. Yup.

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August 28th, 2010 at 10:49 pm

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I play songs sometimes

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So yeah, I still play music sometimes.  Sometimes its my own, other times its not.  Here’s me playing a Megadeth song.

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and here’s a video of me mucking about playing it

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June 21st, 2010 at 2:47 pm

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Easter Fail

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So Townsquare Las Vegas was having an easter event today, and I thought hey, the kid would have fun with this.  So you have to register early for the hunt as it was supposed to be a limited number of kids each time, so we got there just after 10am.  Got her registered, and waited the 4 HOURS till the hunt.  In the meantime, she played at the park there and had some fun.

At just after 1:30pm, we head down to line up, and there’s a TON of people there without the registration armbands, just lined up for a free for all.  Apparently following simple instructions is beyond the majority of people at these events.  We ended up near the back of the line behind a bunch of these people who didn’t register and refused to get out of line.

Eventually, they call a start to the hunt, and these people pushed and shoved their way in, and my daughter got stuck in the back.  She managed to get a few eggs, but not many.  Now we were under the impression based on what they were saying that there was supposed to be candy and stickers in all the eggs, and a few would have tickets for larger prizes.  Well, after the event we opened the eggs, and got NOTHING.  Not a damn thing.   Way to fail guys, thanks for the fun day.

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April 3rd, 2010 at 1:54 pm

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Live reaction to watching the “We Are The World” remake video

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(10:11:46 AM) mike.becker: here comes the pain, i’m gonna try and watch the official video of the "we are the world" remake
(10:11:48 AM) mike.becker to see how bad it is
(10:12:39 AM) mike.becker: wow, the reverb
(10:13:11 AM) mike.becker: these people’s voices and styles do NOT go together at all
(10:13:31 AM) mike.becker: OH GOD BARBARA STREISAND
(10:14:33 AM) mike.becker: this is really bad
(10:14:51 AM) mike.becker: and i’m pretty sure i just heard Auto-Tune
(10:15:17 AM) mike.becker: ok, now i’m SURE i heard it
(10:18:50 AM) Chris: lol
(10:19:21 AM) mike.becker: OH GOD T-PAIN
(10:19:47 AM) mike.becker@ and Jaime Foxx doing a ray charles impression
(10:19:50 AM) mike.becker: WTF SHITTY RAP?
(10:20:20 AM) mike.becker: is that LL COOL J?
(10:20:35 AM) mike.becker: this makes my brain hurt
(10:20:54 AM) mike.becker: what the fuck is all this rapping?
(10:21:01 AM) mike.becker: and who’s the guy screaming?
(10:21:03 AM) mike.becker: WTF IS GOING ON?
(10:21:18 AM) Chris: we are teh world sucks now

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February 18th, 2010 at 10:24 am

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updated links

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Oh hey look, I’m a moron and when I did my redesign I gave no links to my other pages. GO ME GO. Anyhow, I’ve half assed fixed that by adding pages on the side. I also added twitter on the side, cause I actually post stuff on there.

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December 3rd, 2009 at 9:39 pm

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This is what leads to awesome!

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See this? This is the beginning of things that lead to awesome.

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August 5th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

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Even the cat thinks it’s too damn hot

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Sent via AT&T Wireless

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July 6th, 2009 at 8:16 pm

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OMG A POST

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Yeah, I changed the layout back, but I updated the header. I’ll probably buy another domain name soon, under the pretext that it will make me update it more. Even though I won’t, cause I’m lazy.

 

Since the munchkin is now living with me, I’m working on putting together a Jawa costume for her so she can go trooping, and I’ll be putting up pics as parts arrive and it gets assembled. Robe is being custom made right now, blaster will be ordered Friday, and the bandolier is on its way. Now to replace my TK helmet with an RT-Mod, and mod my blaster, and start on my Tusken, and finish my imperial officer, and Darth Revan….*sigh*

 

And finally, my daughter has given me an excuse to upgrade to a DSi soon, her old original DS Fatty is dying, so I’m gonna pass on the DS Lite, and get a DSi for myself. Got a classic NES styled Gameboy Advance coming for the old school goodness since DSi has no GBA slot J

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June 15th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

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