Roku's Netflix Player handling HD content "by the end of the year"

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Spiza @ Nov 3rd 2008 8:42AM

As soon as the netflix HD hits one of the blu-ray players, I'll probably be selling my PS3 and picking up one of those.

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Bozster @ Nov 3rd 2008 9:13AM

I doubt you'll see that soon if ever..Do you really think they would shoot themselves in the foot and offer competing HD content on Blu-Ray players?

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h0mi @ Nov 3rd 2008 10:16AM

1 of LG's players streams netflix. I'm fairly sure it will do HD as well.

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squiggleslash @ Nov 3rd 2008 10:19AM

Bozter - how would they be shooting themselves in the foot? The CE industry just wants to shift boxes. They don't care how many plastic discs get sold by some other party, as long as their boxes of electronics sell.

If Netflix is the way to push expensive boxes, they'll add it, and they'll add the best implementation they can get away with. With Netflix just requiring Internet access, H.264/VC-1 (not sure which), and some easily decoded audio codec, adding Netflix support to a Profile 2.0 player is just a matter of putting out a firmware update.

Makes me wish Toshiba would push out Netflix support in a firmware update for their HD DVD players - which have all the right hardware features too, wonder if Netflix could pay them to do it...

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Dan @ Nov 3rd 2008 11:21AM

I believe LG announced a Netflix based blu ray player. I saw an ad for it in the back of Sound and Vision.

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Dan @ Nov 3rd 2008 11:21AM

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