I never ended up with a Roku but I am back in the market for something to stream Netflix in HD and have access to YouTube, Hulu Plus etc... I was going to buy a Dell Zino but those have been discontinued. I don't own many DVDs and while I'm not opposed to a blu-ray with streaming for the right price it's not something I feel I need right now.

It appears that a 45 hour TIVO and the Roku2 HD are the same price - $79.

TIVO Lifetime is $399 w/ a MSD and Roku looks to be $79 + whatever you subscribe to.

Help me decide which to do. Thoughts on either? Pros/cons? bacon? boobs?

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Do you care about the DVR capability of TiVo? If not, Roku.

The TIVO would eliminate another box/monthly charge since I currently pay $15 a month for DVR service from Cox. I think the break even point between the TIVO lifetime and the DVR service is 3 years but since I don't math feel free to prove me wrong ;)

Reviews from the TIVO Premier have been mixed and I know very little about the Roku.

We've got two rokus and one wirless bluray. They're all super simple to set up and use. We've so far only used for netflix. The most time consuming part is just inputting my random lynksis key for the wireless. The rest is a snap.

From the TiVo site:

Monthly: $20
Lifetime: $500

Break even: 2 years, one month ($500 / $20 = 25 months)

(Of course, not counting the possible transfer of another lifetime device, which is what we did when we purchased our TiVo Premier XL earlier this year.)

Actually she was talking about the break-even point between TiVo lifetime vs. her Cox-provided DVR ($15/month) not the TiVo monthly price. So yeah, that's 33 months, just under 3 years.

Wait. How do you transfer lifetime from one device to another? And how to do you like the Premier?

Thanks!

The MSD discount brings the monthly TIVO service to $15 but I'd prefer to invest in lifetime rather than continue to pay a monthly expense. On the flipside what will be available in 2 years DVR wise. Decisions decisions.

Hmm... I must have been smoking something; looking at my account, I still have the original TiVo with the Lifetime on it. I think maybe I got a special price on the Premier (XL) when I bought it. Sorry to mislead.

We have been happy with the Premier. It has a couple of quirks (every once in a while, when you click the TiVo button, it shows the THX splash screen, but that isn't a bid deal as I just click the TiVo button again to get where I want to go) and the new HD menu is STILL not ready for prime-time (something that TiVo acknowledges). But otherwise, it has worked great for us (though, because if the issues we had with our HD TiVo, we got the three-year extended warranty).

I got my Roku and so far I love it. It's so small!

I also discovered the HDMI cable going from my cable box to my TV was bad. I hope the monoprice "lifetime cable guarantee" swap is painless. If it's not I'll buy another cable.