Roku XD Unboxing and First Impressions

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[JamJells]

For some reason your voice didn't seem to match you speaking in the last clip of you speaking. It was absolutely clear. What mike system do you use in your videos?

[thisweekinlinux]

@JamJells The middle section, where I was actually demonstrating the Roku, I was using the built-in audio of the camera, which was mediocre at best. When unboxing the device and talking at the end, I was using the Rode Videomid on a boom mic stand overhead, plugged into the camera using the 3.5mm audio jack.

Probably should have used the Rode for the center section as well, to be honest.

[suspekt29]

It boasts 300 channels. Where are the 300 channels?

[thisweekinlinux]

@suspekt29 in the Channels menu, there are lots of channels. Not sure about 300 of them, and a lot of them are paid channels, but there are definitely quite a few good ones out there (Crackle, Revision3, BlipTV just to name a few)

[suspekt29]

@thisweekinlinux Someone also told me that you can hack it as well. Others told me they could hook it up to an external hard drive for music and movies. Thanks for the response. Any idea how yours differs from the new one they just released. I am sure I could find this version cheaper.

[thisweekinlinux]

@suspekt29 not really sure what's different about the new ones. I know Woot has a refurbed one available today for a reasonable price though.

[thegenrl]

what about accessing from NFS or NTFS file shares?

[megahustlenflowspare]

so how can i get my own internet acces i know it costs some money to keep it going (most likely)

[SPORTSandGAMEs4LIFE]

Do you get ESPN on this device

[MrPavePaws]

ROKU.com account signup is *NEVER* mentioned in the "3 minute set up" they refer to.

[jercubsfan]

Your mother-in-law is awesome!