August 17, 2008
NetFlix Video on Demand
Netflix has LOTSA old TV shows and movies available on their "instant queue" -- you go to the webpage, say I wanna watch it now, and you do! Streaming video over your internet connection.
Which is cool, but limited you to watching on/through your computer.
Then came ROKU. I heard about it from a friend at work. Told Wendy, she had already been looking at it. $100, it is version 1.0, just out. "We could wait six months and get it for $50." NAH!
It arrived last week. It's a small box that hooks up to the rest of the video intertainment center. Years ago I had picked up an s-video switch so we could watch both DVDs and the big old 12" Laserdisks -- inputs one and two of four. Unpacked the ROKU and connected to input number three, was dispalying on the TV about four minutes after slitting the package open. It connects to the Internet via my home WiFi network... that took about two minutes. It came with the standard triple RCA plug cable -- had to go buy the s-video cable separate. Once I got that it was another minute to connect and enable watching on the old Epson front projector.
6:20 pm -- Wendy looked on Netflix, found that "On Any Sunday" was available. So we warched it. Displayed at about 88" diagonal.
Posted by Paladin at August 17, 2008 12:13 PM