Media Streamers Category

Roku Takes Amazon Video On Demand Into Beta Testing

February 6, 2009 – 8:19 pm

We announced earlier in the year that Roku would soon be adding Amazon Video on Demand to their Netflix box, but we did not know when. Apparently they are now in the private beta testing phase. Their is an official thread over at the Roku forum with the details. Still no official word as to [...]

Roku Adding Amazon Video On Demand

January 5, 2009 – 6:18 pm

Amazon and Roku just announced that in early 2009 the Netflix Roku player will be adding access to Amazon’s Video-on-Demand library. This will allow all of you Roku owners to get all of the newly released movies right on your TV the same day they come out. Amazon’s service allows you to purchase new [...]

Roku Firmware Updates To HD Netflix Streaming

December 20, 2008 – 2:58 pm

The LG BD300 just got the update for HD Netflix streaming and now following along the Roku player is getting an HD update. There is now official word of when the update will be out to everyone.

LG’s BD300 Blu-ray Player Gets HD Firmware

December 18, 2008 – 2:44 pm

LG’s BD300 Blu-ray player is finally getting a firmware update which allows it to play HD streaming Netflix content. The firmware update is vBD8.11.480 and is also supposed to fix some small bugs with the player.

TiVo Soon Will Be Streaming Netflix

October 30, 2008 – 2:56 pm

TiVo and Netflix have just announced their partnership making the TiVo series 3 and TiVo HD the newest devices to stream Netflix content straight to your TV. However they are still in beta testing, but expect the technology to be available by December in time for the Holidays. So if you were thinking of getting [...]

Samsung P2500 & P2550 Blu-ray Players Now Stream Netflix

October 23, 2008 – 8:02 pm

Well, the LG BD300 just recently came out making it the first Blu-ray player to stream Netflix, but now LG has some competition from Samsung. Netflix and Samsung have just reached a deal to stream Netflix content over the P2500 and P2550 Samsung blu-ray players. Good news for us all that this will have to [...]