Impressions so far:
Picture quality is lousy. The signal is massively over-compresses, leading to obvious loss of color gamut, pixelation, image softness, noise and intermittent macro-blocking. Sound is stereo only. No 5.1 AC3. The interface on the Roku is spartan, but functional. There is a little bit a lag executing commands, which is not entirely unexpected given how it works.
If they don't fix their picture quality, they are toast. I can't imaging anyone putting up with this as their main TV source. It even looks crappy on my 23" monitor. They need to at least match Netflix for picture and sound if they want to be successful and they are not even close. I am not too happy about two channel audio either, but I doubt that would kill their business model.
We'll see if things improve with time. I have three months of free beta tester access to play with it.
Picture quality is lousy. The signal is massively over-compresses, leading to obvious loss of color gamut, pixelation, image softness, noise and intermittent macro-blocking. Sound is stereo only. No 5.1 AC3. The interface on the Roku is spartan, but functional. There is a little bit a lag executing commands, which is not entirely unexpected given how it works.
If they don't fix their picture quality, they are toast. I can't imaging anyone putting up with this as their main TV source. It even looks crappy on my 23" monitor. They need to at least match Netflix for picture and sound if they want to be successful and they are not even close. I am not too happy about two channel audio either, but I doubt that would kill their business model.
We'll see if things improve with time. I have three months of free beta tester access to play with it.
