My Review of Roku HD Player

Would be perfect if it featured Hulu.com

Pros: Easy to set up, Great value, Compact, Easy to use, High quality picture

Cons: Want more video choices

Best Uses: Secondary TV, Primary TV

Describe Yourself: Netflix fan, Hulu fan, Casual User

The Roku HD Player is a great alternative to premium cable television. We are not die-hard cable consumers like the rest of America apparently is, so we do not subscribe to premium cable. We are, however, Netflix fans! Now that Netflix offers thousands of streaming movies, the Roku HD Player suddenly makes sense.

We use it mostly to watch television programs offered by Netflix that are now on DVD. Netflix is continually adding to its library of streaming media.

If we wanted something even more current, there’s always Amazon Video on Demand, if you want to pay for the newest offerings.

The player is dead simple to set up, and I actually appreciate that it DOES have a network jack. Built-in wifi is great, but I’ll choose hard wired if I have the option… and here I do.

Roku REALLY needs to get Hulu.com on board! Imagine if we could watch Hulu offerings via Roku! That would be amazing.

I really don’t understand what the problem is. I can watch Roku programming and Hulu programming for free. Yet I’m only allowed to watch one of them on my television. Doesn’t make sense.