{"id":236,"date":"2008-06-04T21:47:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T04:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/06\/04\/netflix-roku-box-update\/"},"modified":"2008-06-05T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T21:51:31","slug":"netflix-roku-box-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/06\/04\/netflix-roku-box-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Roku Netflix box update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2008\/06\/netflix_player_by_roku_1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Netflix box by Roku\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/>The box arrived this weekend.  Setup was trivially easy; it found our wireless network and we were watching movies within ten minutes.  Quality is fine, as far as I can tell, with the included RCA cables.  I have an HDMI cable on order from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monoprice.com\/home\/index.asp\" title=\"Monoprice -- cheap cables\">Monoprice <\/a>which I guess will make it better.  No skipping or delays in playback.  The fast-forward and reverse is a little funky but usable.  The value is outstanding, I think; really outsized value.  I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=4176679811538561619&amp;hl=en\" title=\"Time to die clip\"><em>Blade Runner<\/em><\/a> and Herzog&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0200849\/\" title=\"My Best Fiend\"><em>My Best Fiend<\/em><\/a> on Saturday night, movies I wouldn&#8217;t have watched (again) if not for the little box.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t expecting to have to manage my queue from my computer; I can&#8217;t add movies from my couch.  But it&#8217;s an acceptable design tradeoff to me.  At the moment there are &#8216;only&#8217; 10,000 movies available and nothing recent.  But the catalog is only going to improve; after all, they didn&#8217;t name it &#8220;DVD-flix,&#8221; right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The box arrived this weekend. Setup was trivially easy; it found our wireless network and we were watching movies within ten minutes. Quality is fine, as far as I can tell, with the included RCA cables. I have an HDMI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/06\/04\/netflix-roku-box-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-3O","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}