Roku or new BDP? - Blu-ray Forum

Go Blue · 03-01-2013, 06:24 PM

I posted this in the BDP thread, but figured this would be another good place for this...

I currently have a Pioneer BDP320 paired with my Pio Elite plasma and Pio SC1222 AVR. The BDP is fine, except for the slow start up and loading time. I'd like to start streaming HD movies from Amazon with my Prime membership. I'm trying to decide if I should keep my current BDP and by a Roku or just buy a new BDP like the Panny 220. It will be about the same cost either way. Any opinions?

ruinit · 03-02-2013, 03:59 PM

If you can hold out a few weeks I would wait there is a new model Roku coming out that may have more power and better features.

arcadeforest · 03-02-2013, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ruinit

If you can hold out a few weeks I would wait there is a new model Roku coming out that may have more power and better features.

+1 on this, buying a second unit when it comes out - I just recently got a Roku player (little over a month ago) and really do love the thing for what it does. The amount of channels is a great selling point, besides the standard NetFlix, Hulu+, Amazon, there are hundreds of other options / channels to add. Ease of use is great as well, especially if you have kids in the house.

ruinit · 03-02-2013, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by arcadeforest

+1 on this, buying a second unit when it comes out - I just recently got a Roku player (little over a month ago) and really do love the thing for what it does. The amount of channels is a great selling point, besides the standard NetFlix, Hulu+, Amazon, there are hundreds of other options / channels to add. Ease of use is great as well, especially if you have kids in the house.

Yea I love the remote! You only have a handful of buttons so children and old people don't have to figure much out. I hope they add some move channels soon like Redbox, Cinemanow and Mgo. More movie services are always better!

Go Blue · 03-02-2013, 04:39 PM

Does anyone hdmi it to a avr instead of tv? I'd like to do this to get sound through my speakers but am not sure if I can.

ruinit · 03-02-2013, 04:46 PM

This link says March 6th release date but seems odd there has been no official announcement with a ship date that soon.

http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=54764

rdodolak · 03-02-2013, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Schultzy

Does anyone hdmi it to a avr instead of tv? I'd like to do this to get sound through my speakers but am not sure if I can.

I do just that and get sound through my receiver; make sure your receiver supports HDMI 1.3 or newer and DD Plus. Note, if you have your Roku set to output 5.1 surround your receiver must be capable of decoding DD 5.1+ or 7.1+ in order to get DD 5.1/7.1 sound out of the titles that offer DD+. If your receiver does not have that capability then you'd have to change the setting on the Roku to output DD 2.0 to get sound out of those titles. The current Rokus don't have the capability to internally decode DD+ so it just passes it through to the receiving equipment.

DGates01 · 03-07-2013, 04:02 AM

If you didn't already have a Blu-ray player, this decision would be a no-brainer. You'd get the BD player with streaming capabilities. That would be getting 2 things in 1, where as the Roku only does the 1 thing.

03-01-2013, 06:24 PM	#1
Go Blue Blu-ray Knight Top ranked HT gallery Member since:Jul 2007 Home Theater Gallery:23 Blu-ray collection:160 Trading Score:7	Roku or new BDP? I posted this in the BDP thread, but figured this would be another good place for this... I currently have a Pioneer BDP320 paired with my Pio Elite plasma and Pio SC1222 AVR. The BDP is fine, except for the slow start up and loading time. I'd like to start streaming HD movies from Amazon with my Prime membership. I'm trying to decide if I should keep my current BDP and by a Roku or just buy a new BDP like the Panny 220. It will be about the same cost either way. Any opinions?

03-02-2013, 03:59 PM	#2
ruinit Active Member Member since:Dec 2012 Trading Score:86	If you can hold out a few weeks I would wait there is a new model Roku coming out that may have more power and better features.

03-02-2013, 04:39 PM	#5
Go Blue Blu-ray Knight Top ranked HT gallery Member since:Jul 2007 Home Theater Gallery:23 Blu-ray collection:160 Trading Score:7	Does anyone hdmi it to a avr instead of tv? I'd like to do this to get sound through my speakers but am not sure if I can.

03-02-2013, 04:46 PM	#6
ruinit Active Member Member since:Dec 2012 Trading Score:86	This link says March 6th release date but seems odd there has been no official announcement with a ship date that soon. http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=54764

03-07-2013, 04:02 AM	#8
DGates01 Active Member Member since:May 2010 Location:California Blu-ray collection:22	If you didn't already have a Blu-ray player, this decision would be a no-brainer. You'd get the BD player with streaming capabilities. That would be getting 2 things in 1, where as the Roku only does the 1 thing.

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