yes, it sucks that the case is unless you have a receiver that can do DD+ you're not getting 5.1 from Netflix on a Roku 2. It also sucks that due to license costs for DD+ most likely, the Roku2 does not decode it in order to send a DD signal out to receivers. But make no mistake, Roku eliminated th...

If this is really what's going on, it seems the CDNs should have been designed with that intelligence somewhere else rather than relying on DNS. Maybe I should apply for grant...I'll let you know when my foundation is hiring. :-) As soon as you figure out how to run CDNs better than akamai &c I...

Schmye Bubbula wrote:

Well, I'm not a network engineer, but despite the misgivings of the posts above, there are a number of router network traffic monitor utilities out there, and I gather that they work.

Well, I do wear that as one of my hats, and I know how they work. I've even written some.

Counters rolling over/routers resetting is pretty much irrelevant. You poll every X minutes and get the amount of traffic for the now-X..now interval. Add up the values for your intervals within the desired period and you have your total. If you poll once an hour you could lose track of an hours wo...

The only way a new DNS would help is if your ISP doesn't locate you properly to the closest Netflix CDN. That's a bit unlikely. It's actually extremely common. The third party DNS servers use the same sort of distributed CDN architecture as netflix or amazon, and are actually more likely to serve u...

In order for it to track any sort of bandwidth, wouldn't it have to be running all of the time? That is, if such a channel existed, I could run it, but I could not run Netflix through it. correct. the snmp counters reset and roll over, and if you're not polling regularly the numbers don't mean much.

they probably justify it by saying they like the picture. I think they justify it by only having to make one connection. Three or more connections is far too complicated for the average consumer. If there was ever a technology that should die it's HDMI/HDCP. Good point, it is a very convenient conn...

I understand what you're saying in it being an inherent HDCP issue that it fails if it's not 100% working. My question is, why is it not working? A little more transparency would be nice with Roku in showing that they have such issues in getting it working and that you could very possibly end up pa...

As far as I'm aware, there is no set "market rate" for the content at the moment. That's the whole issue. The rate that Netflix set a couple years ago is no longer valid, because the studios are realizing the demand (and their potential loss). The highest bidder will set the market rate. ...

HDCP aside... I'm sorry, but "works for most" is not acceptable when a video device has problems working with its specifically marketed output mechanism. obviously it is acceptable, because people keep paying the HDMI consortium's licensing fees for a technology with no interoperability g...

Not quite what I was suggesting. What I was saying is, regardless of what Sony (or whoever) is asking for, Google and Amazon will always be able to outbid Netflix for that content. If they set the precedent by doing so (as they well could, since both are trying to get a viable streaming business up...

kakaka wrote:

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there is no button on the Roku remote for "CC"

There also isn't a 720p button or a 5.1 button. What was your point again?

The other codec would be mpeg2 - I know it would cost, but then you could setup the ability to watch atsc streams that a computer in your house is recording/recorded. Then a third party (or Roku!) could write simple software that would make your Roku's able to watch live streams of OTA broadcasts, ...

As for codecs, that's never going to happen with the Roku. It's hardware based so it's best left as is. Trying to get codecs into it would be like running a 3d game on a computer without a decent video card. It would eat up resources that are needed elsewhere and in general not be worth the effort....

KennyJ wrote:

Let's try this a different way. What would make you say Android isn't a success?

microsoft or apple having a monopoly on the phone market.