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Review of the Roku HD1000 Media Player

Posted by michael on from the too-bad dept.

Animaether writes "Digital Producer magazine are running a review of the Roku HD1000 HD media player hardware. Between 'The unit crashed so much while I was testing it, I practically beat a path through the carpet to the unit's location on the shelf...' and 'Roku HD1000 misses by such a wide margin, it isn't worth buying', the review paints a pretty grim picture of this unit, and appears to put part of the blame on its Linux-based OS and software. The Roku HD1000 was previously covered here in December 2003."

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  1. You get what you pay for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's what they get for not using a production ready operating system. Why would anyone choose Linux when they can use Windows CE?

  2. Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux - figures. If they had used a more mature OS, maybe it would have turned out differently.

  3. Surprise! Yet another sucky linux based product by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And people why I think open source is BULLSHIT and that Apple product rule your lame ass "open source" world! Linux, OGG vorbis, the Gimp, GNOME, KDE, is there any end user type app that open source programmers can GET RIGHT? Apparently not. Fucking lamo's.