Monday, December 14th, 2009...8:51 pm
Roku HD1000 High-Definition Digital Media Player
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- High-definition media player supports 1080i, 720p, and 480p outputs for optimal viewing on high-definition and HD-ready TVs
- Designed for convenient living room slide shows and MP3/linear PCM music playback from your memory cards or personal computer
- Compatible with Roku Art Packs and LiveArt (not included) for high-definition wall art from still and motion images
- CompactFlash, SD, MMC, Memory Stick, and SmartMedia slots
- Can be networked with your PC through an Ethernet port or Wi-Fi
Product Description
The Roku HD1000 is the first high-definition digital media player, designed to make the most of your HDTV’s brilliant color and clarity. Tap into your home computer network or pop in a memory card to enjoy high-definition digital photos, art, LiveArt, music, and third party applications. The Roku HD1000 is based on the Roku OS, an open platform that includes Roku’s advanced media APIs and the Linux Kernel.Amazon.com Product Description
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Roku HD1000 High-Definition Digital Media Player
Multi Room Music Systems
This product is truly designed for owners of digital cameras with various types of memory cards. The image quality on large format HD screens is quite impressive.
Downside, you have to have a compact flash card and reader in order to import the updated software. Looking at prices at Amazon this could cost more than half the price of the unit itself. This is a serious shortcoming for this product and my reason for a average rating. I have still not been able to get the unit to work on either of my networks using Windows XP.
Most people keep their photo’s on CD’s and a CD slot would have been a great feature, even over the assortment of memory card slots they provide. I would believe that most images are moved from memory cards to hard drives and cd’s for long term storage and later viewing making a CD drive much more practical.
Rating: 3 / 5
The Roku HD player was nothing but problems. I’m not a pro at things like this but my friend is and we spent over 3 hrs trying to get this thing to work and only then got it to work halfway. Judging from other people on Roku’s message boards I wasn’t the only one. It has serious networking issues. I sent mine back I was so disappointed. The idea was great but not the product.
Rating: 1 / 5
I just felt compelled to write given some of the previous reviews. I just bought this – yes I know (sucker!) – but I really wanted to see what mt Plasma could do with a decent signal.
I plugged it in – used component cables to sit the roku unit btn DVD out and plasma in (a screen saver feature and ease of use) – and voila – my aquarium artpack was running in 1080i – beautiful!
Then I got ambitious – I bought the DLink G810 Ethernet Bridge (runs on the g wifi so fast enough to stream video) – set it up with my D-Link Wifi g network as per the package – very easy! and again voila the Roku had found 1500+ mp3s on my desktop, over 3000 photos, and there was little if any noticeable lag in viewing.
i hold off from 5 stars as it is not the most beautiful UI in the world and also is fairly basic in nature of what it can do BUT ifr you are looking to stream audio and video from PC, show photos from PC, and look very cool to your friends with a real HD gadget! then the Roku is the one.
Only thing – check the http://www.rokulabs.com site forums for details on ‘issues’ for advanced users and also looks like a new OS update is coming soon, so maybe some of the more basic features will get enhanced.
Great Product and cheap!
Rating: 4 / 5
Purchased the HD1000 for audio streaming and photograph display. The high definition digital display of photographs is great. Easy to set up and use. The audio capability is much more limited and not at all easy to use. I believe Roku is somewhat misleading in their claims about the audio capability of this unit. Many popular formats are not supported although Roku suggests using third part software. This is very limited and I am not a fan of having to use third part software to upgrade a product to meet its marketing claims. If audio is important to you, look elsewhere. I am disappointed with the device.
Rating: 1 / 5
I just got this item today along with the iomega 250GB Network Drive. I plugged in my drive, put some music on it, then as soon as I turned on my Roku, it saw the files and started playing them immediately.
I agree with some other users who say that navigating through the music is slow and cumbersome…that’s why I gave it 4 stars, not 5. However, this item works just like it was advertised. I’m extremely pleased.
Rating: 4 / 5