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Video Of The Day: Netflix HD Streaming Shootout

The complete shootout can be found on engadget’s website.

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Dave Zatz

January 19th, 2009 at 7:39 pm · Reply

I haven’t done my own shootout, but I do own TiVo(s), Xbox 360, and the Roku box. For ease of use and quickness, Roku wins. BUT it outputs only 720p HD. Meaning an old HD set like the one in my bedroom, a 30″ Panasonic CRT tube, which only accepts 1080i can’t accept the input. So it’s 480p or nothing. Unfortunate. The Xbox interface is more efficient and attractive than TiVo, but it’s also louder and requires turning on another unit. We use mostly TiVo, when it works. One movie crapped out half way (repeatedly) but worked fine on the Roku. It’s definitely an imperfect science at this point.
ZNF ‘Round The Web

January 19th, 2009 at 8:13 pm · Reply

[...] Video Of The Day: Engadget’s Netflix HD Streaming Shootout I haven’t run my own Netflix streaming shootout, but I do own TiVo(s), Xbox 360, and the Roku box. For ease of use and quickness, Roku wins. But it only outputs 720p HD. Meaning an old HD set like the one in my bedroom, a 30″ Panasonic CRT tube, which only accepts 1080i can’t resolve the input. So it’s 480p or nothing. Unfortunate. The Xbox interface is more efficient and attractive than TiVo, but the hardware is louder and is another unit to turn on. We mostly use TiVo, when it works. One movie crapped out half way (repeatedly) but worked/resumed fine on the Roku. It’s definitely an imperfect science at this point. (And Netflix had an outage Saturday night during prime viewing time.) [...]