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OK head-fi...
My wife is a borderline technophobe (which is why I have no fear of her reading this!) - and more importantly, anything we own that does not work 100% of the time or is not dead-nuts simple for her to operate is clearly *my* fault. :rolleyes:
For several years, she's been using a 1st gen Wii to stream Netflix to the TV in our living room. The picture quality sucks, but that doesn't seem to bother her at all. What does bother her is that the Wii seems to have intermittent network issues. If I power-cycle the Wii, it will usually reconnect and work fine. This is, of course, my fault - even though there is nothing wrong with our home network or our ISP, and Netflix works fine on the Panasonic blu-ray player connected to the TV in our bedroom. I suspect the old Wii is simply not always playing well with the Netflix streaming servers, so I want to get her a new streaming device.
Which, of course, leads to the question: What is the best & easiest device that is exclusively going to be used for Netflix? Roku 3? Blu-ray player (which brand)? Apple TV? Amazon Fire TV?
It would be a "very nice to have" if the device will work with our current Logitech Harmony remote. Extra points if it has a coax or optical audio out (our old AV receiver doesn't have HDMI switching, but I do have digital out from the TV to the AV receiver), also extra points for an RJ45 ethernet jack (I still believe streaming over a wired network is more reliable than over WiFi)
Please don't bother telling me how we should be streaming to the TV from a media PC, or XBMC, or an Android tablet, etc, etc - or that we should be getting all our movies from iTunes, Hulu+, Amazon or bittorrent - or that I should buy a new 3D, 4K "smart" TV that has Netflix built-in. Ain't going to happen in this lifetime. She's happy with Netflix and I just want to get Netflix on our current TV in the most reliable & easiest way possible.
I'm leaning toward the Roku 3, or maybe with moving the existing Panasonic blu-ray in our bedroom to the living room and then getting the Roku 3 (or another blu-ray) for the bedroom. The Amazon Fire TV is very intriguing, although using it for Netflix and not Amazon Prime doesn't seem to be the best idea.
What say you?
TIA!
My wife is a borderline technophobe (which is why I have no fear of her reading this!) - and more importantly, anything we own that does not work 100% of the time or is not dead-nuts simple for her to operate is clearly *my* fault. :rolleyes:
For several years, she's been using a 1st gen Wii to stream Netflix to the TV in our living room. The picture quality sucks, but that doesn't seem to bother her at all. What does bother her is that the Wii seems to have intermittent network issues. If I power-cycle the Wii, it will usually reconnect and work fine. This is, of course, my fault - even though there is nothing wrong with our home network or our ISP, and Netflix works fine on the Panasonic blu-ray player connected to the TV in our bedroom. I suspect the old Wii is simply not always playing well with the Netflix streaming servers, so I want to get her a new streaming device.
Which, of course, leads to the question: What is the best & easiest device that is exclusively going to be used for Netflix? Roku 3? Blu-ray player (which brand)? Apple TV? Amazon Fire TV?
It would be a "very nice to have" if the device will work with our current Logitech Harmony remote. Extra points if it has a coax or optical audio out (our old AV receiver doesn't have HDMI switching, but I do have digital out from the TV to the AV receiver), also extra points for an RJ45 ethernet jack (I still believe streaming over a wired network is more reliable than over WiFi)
Please don't bother telling me how we should be streaming to the TV from a media PC, or XBMC, or an Android tablet, etc, etc - or that we should be getting all our movies from iTunes, Hulu+, Amazon or bittorrent - or that I should buy a new 3D, 4K "smart" TV that has Netflix built-in. Ain't going to happen in this lifetime. She's happy with Netflix and I just want to get Netflix on our current TV in the most reliable & easiest way possible.
I'm leaning toward the Roku 3, or maybe with moving the existing Panasonic blu-ray in our bedroom to the living room and then getting the Roku 3 (or another blu-ray) for the bedroom. The Amazon Fire TV is very intriguing, although using it for Netflix and not Amazon Prime doesn't seem to be the best idea.
What say you?
TIA!