Roku HD with DSL: If I buy this unit for 2 HD tv's and purchase HDMI cables, will the picture quality be better or is my internet to slow?
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Go to speedtest Dot Net on the web and run a speed test. If over 1.5mbps then you are good to go Roku. 1.25mbps is sort of borderline. Anything lower down to about 0.6mbps will work but never in HD. They will work with the lower speeds but never upshift to HD.
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I am sorry but I have cable internet and I know that there DSL has differnt speed up and down then cable ,I don't have any trouble with my internet with the DVD player.
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Yes, I'm using it with a Roku 3. I can't use the Roku at 1080 but I think that's a limitation of HDMI on my TV. The Xbox is using 1080 on the other half without an issue.
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It is working very well with our UVerse service. The unit doesn'treq hire an HDMI cable, just a standard cable tv, coaxial, cable. Make your own installation template though. The holes don't line up.
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I don't think it can, but for $99 you can purchase a Roku box from Netfix that does a great job with easy set up easy to hook up to your at home WiFi etc. I've had a very good experience w/ it, but I have DSL Qwest and it doesn't have the best down load speed, probably best w/ cable modem or high speed DSL (especially w/ HDTV)
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Mark, Thanks for your information; I find it very useful. I forgot to mention that my goal is to be able to stream my Net Flix subscription movies via my non-HD TV using a Samsung Blu Ray Player. I am not looking for HD Quality video; Standard DVD quality is good enough for me at this time. I understand that a Roku Player will work too.
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The best signal you will be able to get via component cabling is "1080i" upscaling does nothing to this one way or another. Your only gain using HDMI before your TV would be less cabling as their bandwidth is worthless due to yoru tv having the wrong inputs. I would recommend the HDMI cables just incase you ever upgrade to a newer tv and find out "crap I don't have the best cables for this, now I have to go buy them."
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The quality of your shows/movies will primarily depend on your connection speed. While the cable can impact it if it's a shoddy one, it generally won't effect it too much. Those are my experiences anyway.
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We use more than 2 devices. Sometimes the internet is slow, but for the most part we don't have a problem with using 2 tablets and the roku at the same time.
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nope as long as your cable connection is good you are all set!!! Love my Roku bought one for my daughter and son in law for Christmas and they love theirs too, they had a bit of a problem cause they live in the country and their cable carrier was not strong enough to pull it in......they switched to another carrier and have had no problems, if you live in the city you should be golden Enjoy
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Roku needs above 1.5 mbps for a "good" picture, above 2.5mbps for HD. The minimum I believe is about 0.5mbps but the picture quality at that rate would be marginal and you might experience frequent rebuffers. Otherwise it doesn't matter what type of internet connection it uses. Keep in mind if you don't already have one you'll need a wireless router. Also they're in transition between this the first generation roku and the new ones that are not quite available on Amazon. I'd recommend Amazon as the seller because if it doesn't work well enough with your internet connection, Amazon is the easiest for returns.
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If the Roku has an HDMI Plug, I don't see any reason not to work. Try it out
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I bought the Roku HD 720p box and a 12 inch HDMI cable. Velcroed the Roku to the back of the set (don't cover the TV vent holes) and now I have a smart TV. I use the Android remote control for it so IR line of site is not an issue.
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I have a cable modem and I occasionally have quality problems. I haven't figured out yet if the trouble is with my network, the player or Netflix. Sometimes I'll get a message saying that the connection is too poor to even connect, so I click OK, reconnect, and generally it loads at high quality. Or sometimes it will load at medium quality so I'll stop the playback so it will load again. More often than not it loads the second time at high quality. It's kind of quirky. I can't answer your question, but thought I'd share my experience. Oh, and I have a 46" Samsung tv.
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Being compatible and being fully compliant are not the same thing. Any HDMI cable should work, but if you have the Roku 3, then you notice that you get a non-HDCP compliance error sometimes. That's because the cables are not fully compliant. This cable description says that it is, which is why I'm upgrading to these.
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You could have gotten the cheaper one but the picture wouldn't be as good. We have the basic model on the bedroom tv, it's HDTV, we bought it for the previous tv which it worked great on, but the picture on it isn't as good as the Roku2 that we have on the HDTV in the living room.
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If you want to view in 720P (HD), you need an HDMI cable. If Standard Definition is ok for you, you can just use the A/V (red, white, yellow) cables that come with the Roku.