Roku

One of my best buys for 2008 was definitely the 'Roku' Netflix player. Of course you need to have $8.99 Netflix subscriptions to thoroughly enjoy it. But the amount of movies in Netflix Instant is vast. So personally I feel that it's definitely worth it (especially if you are a big movie buff like me).

The best thing about it is the video quality. No one watching it on TV would doubt it is a Streaming device. Most times the clarity is close to HD. There are some movies available in HD too.

Recently it added 'Amazon on demand' service to it. That pretty much rules out me travelling to a video store again. On a click of a button I can get rent any new movie and watch it.

There is also news that just like Amazon, it's going to add 10 other channels by end of 2009 with YouTube confirmed to be one of them. That's really exciting and I am looking forward to all future improvements of Roku. Great thing about it is it just costs $99.

This post may appear like a commercial. It's not. I just wanted to share my opinion/review about my Roku box.