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Roku XD
7.3 out of 10

Roku XD

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Overall 10
10

YOU CAN REMOVE CREDIT CARD INFO

Patrick O'Donnell, Amazon
10 May 2011
  • Summary: I see many people turned off by the fact that you need to use a credit card to sign up for Roku -- I am with you.
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Overall 10
10

"Great Product - Excellent Value - No need for Cable!"

pghgeologist, CNET
27 April 2011
  • Pros: Ease of setup and use. Excellent content. Good picture quality. Good reliability.
  • Cons: The only complaint is that I wish Hulu made it's free content available on this device.
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Overall 9
9.0

"Great product."

Jr_d81, CNET
23 April 2011
  • Pros: This streams Netflix, free crackle movies and much more with news and pandora. It does exactly what i need it to do without monthly fees. I got rid of cable tv because...
  • Cons: The only thing that i notice is it takes a little while to initially load. On start up it takes what feels like a 30 seconds to a minute to initially load, then you ha...
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Overall 10
10

"Many channels, wireless, excellent quality, great csr's"

straybeat, CNET
15 February 2011
  • Pros: I bought 2 of the XD models hoping to replace Dish in the near future. It produces an excellent picture, up to 1080p. Audio, of course, is good too. The wireless setup...
  • Cons: It locks up and reboots whenever you overload it with too many button pushes. I got my first on Black Friday and it has rebooted maybe a dozen times since then. On the...
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Overall 9
9.0

"Best content delivery device, quick fast easy."

Smarty2600, CNET
3 February 2011
  • Pros: This is my first roku and it rocks! I am able to watch hulu plus, netflix, cnet tv, and amazon VOD. The ultimate content king, it just works and is very easy to set up...
  • Cons: The menu screen is constantly adjusting to be 1080p instead of the 720p I set, but it doesn't do it while watching a show. A few times it has crashed and I wish that t...
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Overall 10
10

Works well; easy install

Carneades, Amazon
12 January 2011
  • Summary: Set-up by a 64 year old grandpa: 3 minutes: Open boxes with Roku and Mediabridge HDMI cable, remove all plastic, insert remote batteries.
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Overall 9
9.0

"Great little box!"

tbishop880, CNET
2 January 2011
  • Pros: Unlike some of you I had no problem hooking it up with an ethernet cable to my router. Everything worked fine and very easy to do. Picture quality is great.
  • Cons: Did have a little trouble with the wireless connection.I have a Netgear N router and had to check the box for b/g/n mixed mode. These setting are under the Advanced wi...
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Overall 10
10

A fairly thorough review

Baron von French "Baron", Amazon
28 December 2010
  • Summary: I have had this model of the Roku for about three weeks now and waited to write my review until I had run it through a time of real life use.
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Overall 10
10

Apples/Oranges, well Roku Rocks.

Vic, Amazon
6 December 2010
  • Summary: I've pretty much had everything 'apple', ipod, ipod touch, ipad, macbook--- including apple TV, I just decided to read the reviews and blindly give Roku a try; I simply
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Overall 10
10

Blows away cable!!!

BUFFY/CHARMED/Star Wars Finatic! "starchild212", Amazon
5 December 2010
  • Summary: After reading dozens and dozens of mixed reviews and going over the costs of at first wanting to obtain a blu-ray machine that could get streaming video like Netflix, I
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