| 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful  Simple, By so-cal "so-cal" (Orange County California) - See all my reviews This review is from: NETGEAR Roku XD Player NTV250 (Electronics) My ultimate goal is to rid myself of subscription cable television! My cable provider does not offer a la carte pricing, therefore I must subscribe to literally 100's of channels to get the roughly four HD channels I want (at almost $100 a month). So I decided to give this a try and see if it fits my needs, and so far, so good.On my connection(s): 1. Via Ethernet to home router. 2. Via HDMI to 1080p LCD. Setup took less than ten minutes to complete, including hardware registration with ROKU and Amazon Video on Demand. I was pleasantly surprised how fast the player found my account at Amazon and all of my prior video purchases were waiting to be viewed on the player. The remote is simple with only twelve buttons. On viewing content, the player buffered very quickly and began playing almost immediately. There is quite a bit of free content that can be viewed as well, and was easy to get via the on-screen guide, etc. Will end this review... Read more 14 of 16 people found the following review helpful  Lousy Service from Netgear, This review is from: NETGEAR Roku XD Player NTV250 (Electronics) I bought two of these Netgear Roku's from Radio Shack & installed both of them (easy installation) & I had a Netflix account so I started watching instant movies & it was great but one day I was watching one of my Roku's & we had a power blip (without power for 8 or 10 seconds)& when the power came back on my Netgear Roku would no longer work, I called Roku & they tried to help me get it fixed..all it needed was a new code number & it would not get a new code, so I was turned over to Netgear & the only way I could get a new code number was to pay $69.95 for 6 months extended warranty & they also offered me 30 minutes of help for $40.00, I had these Roku's for about 6 months & Netgear warranty was good for 90 days, I refused to pay for a new code, I don't consider it to be fair to me..I do consider it to be a scam by Netgear... 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful good for Netflix, By This review is from: NETGEAR Roku XD Player NTV250 (Electronics) I purchased this Netgear branded Roku mainly as my local BestBuy had it for similar price as here, but also I know that the distance I have to connect over is long and I use a Netgear N router, understanding that there were some negative reviews of the device here. Signal has to go thru several walls- 2 outside walls and one inside wall and prolly 50-60 feet distance as the crow flies. Using wpa encryption I had no problem whatsoever connecting with the netgear router. Setup for the various channels mostly painless but still requires use of a PC logged into my various content sites to enter a code to enable the device to recieve streaming content, similar to how you might configure your wii to get netflix content. Noticing that the placement of the device is pretty important for my signal strength as I am not close to router and putting it in the cabinet with the tv and close to floor significantly weakens connectivity, I have it on top of a small end-table near tv and on... Read more |
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