Roku HD1000 Digital Media Player Review

"The high-definition (HD) era is upon us. And once you've been to the mountaintop, there's almost no going back to standard-definition (SD) TV. The difference is so startling, it puts into painful perspective just how bad most SD content looks, in much the same way DVD players revealed how poor VHS video quality was."

Except that, strangely, the video playback code is not yet finished, and it sounds as though it might be some time before it's really usable. At $500, this is a pretty expensive audio/still picture viewer, High-Def or not. It does contain a very nice ATI Xilleon processor, featuring all kinds of video goodies under the hood such as flicker removal, MPEG2 decoding, deinterlacing, line doubling and video scaling, but I can't see them selling too many of them based on "video support coming soon".

Posted: 2/24/2004 1:12:35 PM

Link: extremetech.com

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