Roku 2 XD Streaming Price Review

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Roku 2 XD Streaming specifications:
  • 300+ channels with movies, TV shows, music, sports & more
  • High definition streaming up to 1080p HD
  • Works with virtually any TV
  • Built in wireless (Wi Fi b/g/n)
  • Smaller and more energy efficient than any other streaming device



Roku 2 XD Streaming Player 1080p Price and Description:


Roku 2 XD Streaming Player 1080p Reviews and Price:


526 of 535 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of five stars I love Roku, but…, August 2, 2011
By Mark A. Welch “Thunderscribe” (Metro Atlanta) See all my reviews
(REAL NAME) () This review is from: Roku two XD Streaming Player 1080p (Electronics) I love Roku and the whole Roku experience. It allowed me to “cut the cable” and save a good bit of money each month. It gives me lots of programming, most of it free. It is also adding new channels all the time, about 360 or so now.

I current own the last Roku XD 2050x and love it. It is not a perfect product, but it is a darn good one.

This review is on my current buy, the Roku two XD. It is not a perfect product either and it is just been released. It is also not quite prepared for prime time, but nearly.

There are many differences between the XD and the Roku two XD. Most are good, but I do have two gripes. The original XD had both a wired connection and wireless available. I use wireless, but wired may be useful. When I 1st received my original XD, it would not properly connect with my router. I hooked it up with an ethernet cable, which allowed it to get a fast update. This update fixed the problem and I have not had any problems since. The wireless worked great.

Now, the new Roku two XD only has a wireless connection. If you want a Roku two with an available wired connection, then you must use up 100.00 to go up to the XS. I think this was a bad move on Roku’s part. I dont have want to play games on my Roku and I particularly do not like “Angry Birds” which is the major selling point of the XS.

My other gripe is that the new Roku two XD not has the “rewind/replay” button. This neat little button will give you an instant replay of the past some number of seconds, allowing you to look at a movie scene you may missed or a sports call you may want to replay.

The original Roku XD had this button, but the new Roku two XD does not have it. Again, if you want this button, then you must move up to the expensive XS. Again, another bad call on the part of Roku I believe.

As I mentioned earlier, I think they may rushed this product to market a bit too quickly. The major reason is that there are some common channels (and liked private channels) that will not run on the new XD, while they run good on the last generation. Roku is working on the problem and releasing updates, but still, this should not happened on the scale that it did. As an example, now, Food Network Nighttime will not play at all and all of the NASA programming will really crash the Roku and cause it to reboot. When the Roku two was 1st released the problems were worse, but the company was working to correct it. But, with so many glitches at release, they really should waited to refine the software before releasing it to the public.

Now, I will move on to a fast list of Pros and Cons for the Roku two XD

Pros: 1. In general faster performance particularly in menus
2. Wireless range and signal looks better than the last models
3. Better looking menus and color schemes
4. Smaller Roku footprint.

Cons: 1. No wired ethernet port on XD and HD, only on the XS
2. No rewind/recall button on remote of XD and HD, only on the XS
3. Looks to run a little warmer than last models
4. Too much common content (and many private channels) will not work and can possibly crash/reboot the Roku

Overall, it looks as if it will be a great product, like the last models, once they work out the glitches.
I do wish they’d have kept the wired ethernet port on the XD at least, also as the rewind/recall button.

If you have a last generation Roku XD, stick with it for at least the next couple of months. Hopefully they will corrected the video/streaming problems that are plaguing it now.
Also, if you need a wired ethernet connection, then either stick with or track down a last generation XD. Otherwise, if you are wanting to use up the extra money on the XS, then do it.




173 of 187 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of five stars totally LOVE it!, July 30, 2011
By Aisling D’Art “artist and author” (Portsmouth, NH USA) See all my reviews This review is from: Roku two XD Streaming Player 1080p (Electronics) We newly bought a Roku XD box (right before Roku two came out) and we totally love it. Hundreds of free channels from all over the world. Purchase Roku once, and as long as you have a TV (even an old one, like ours) and an Internet connection you have free TV shows and movies. Lots of them.

See, totally anybody can create a channel for Roku and as long as they have hosting to meet bandwidth demands they can place the channel on Roku, free. (Assuming it meets Roku’s quality standards, of course.)

As a result, there are all types of great niche channels produced by fans for things like surfing, rock climbing, old time drive in movies, etc.

Lately, we have seen many of Christian programming added, which makes Roku nice for many people who want more faith friendly programs. Menorah TV is on Roku. And, BYU TV just added their channel, which means we can see “Dogs with Jobs” every evening. Among other cool shows, like genealogy shows, history programs, and sports.

More recreational and strength programming is arriving, and there are so many (mostly English) channels from Asian countries, they have their own group among the hundreds of Roku channels.

I love watching France24 news and other international news shows, live (and in English). My weather channel is Roku’s feed from Weather Underground. So it is for my exact town instead of the nearest city, complete with fresh every five minutes satellite and radar pictures.

Though it is only part of what we watch, we have Netflix on our Roku programming. It costs the same as Netflix does on your computer (if you already have Netflix service, you do not pay anything extra), and you may also add things like Hulu Plus and Amazon’s streaming programming.

But, except for Netflix, everything else we watch is free. That means, after purchasing the Roku box (less than a month’s cable TV bill), we pay nothing extra for our TV service. It is saving us over $100/month in cable TV bills, with far better programming and crisper pictures. Most channels have little or no commercial interruptions, too. Nearly all of them are on demand, also.

We may also access things like Picasa, Pandora, and Facebook via Roku. Lots of options!

The only negative to this and we hope this is short term is that there is no closed captioning. (However, the hundreds of anime features on Crackle have subtitles. And that programming is free.) I am pretty sure the channels and Roku are working on this.

All in all, I dont have idea how cable TV will compete with things like Roku. Between the price (free) and the range of great programs we can watch, we’ll never go back to cable TV.

Roku + an Internet connection + a TV (even an old one) = free TV!




32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of five stars User friendly Streaming Video Player, August 14, 2011
By Richard, Brit Abroad (San Jose, CA) See all my reviews This review is from: Roku two XD Streaming Player 1080p (Electronics) My favorite quote from the thin setup manual: “Step three establishes your network connection and bring out your inner geek. You may be able to do it!” Well, setup is about as easy as it may possibly be and there is really nothing geeky about it. Decide your wifi network name and enter the password. No prerequisite to decide the encryption standard (WEP, WPA etc) or anything more technical than username and password. You’ll need a computer to create an account at Roku and relate it with your new box.

Once setup is complete, driving the user interface via a straightforward IR remote is intuitive. IR is quite directional and you may want to position the Roku box where you most naturally point the remote. This should be easy because the Roku is remarkably small at just a couple of inches square. I think you could velcro the box to the side of a TV if that was convenient to you.

My inner geek is an energy miser! I did my initial testing using a Kill A Watt power meter and was happy to find power intake runs around one to two watts when streaming (I’m compensating for a satellite TV DVR that sucks an outrageous 50 60 watts, 24/7). Great job!

There are dozens of stream feeds preprogrammed into the Roku, most of which seem to be free. Streaming of the last NBC newscast looks to be useful. I plan to look around at the others when I get many time. My major meant use for this is to stream video from Netflix. That’s working good and is alike to my Samsung blueray player and rather faster in operation.

I use an HDMI cable with both a 720p and a 1080p TV and image quality is fine; I did not attempt the analog connections. When you order, just remember that no HDMI cable is included; Amazon’s own brand cables work good and are economical (there’s that miser, again!)

Overall, this is a good implementation of a streaming video player. Handling is tailored much to normal people; geeks may want to get their thrills elsewhere!




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