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forums.roku.com - 12/3/2008
Roku Forums :: View topic - Are you experiencing loss of video quality? PLEASE READ
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I've submitted a couple of times, including a post yesterday venting my frustration. I'm back to report that tonight I cannot even get 2 dots, and 1 dot buffers for a long time. But... when I use my notebook computer, the quality is 1 dot at best. That's when the HP notebook is hardwired, and ...
Netflix Movie Streaming Suffers Serious Loss in Quality, Say Roku Owners
blog.wired.com - 12/4/2008
Netflix Movie Streaming Suffers Serious Loss in Quality, Say Roku Owners
— blog.wired.com — The fairy tale marriage between the movie rental darling Netflix and Roku , the hardware maker that... enables the streaming of its videos, has suffered an unfortunate setback. According to a customer forum on the Roku website, the box has ... (more) Netflix Movie Streaming Suffers Serious Loss in Quality, ...

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Netflix Movie Streaming Suffers Serious Loss in Quality, Say Roku Owners
Wired: Gadget Lab — The fairy tale marriage between the movie rental darling Netflix and Roku, the hardware maker that enables the streaming of its videos, has suffered an unfortunate setback. According to a customer forum on the Roku website, the box has suddenly suffered from a significant loss of quality for its video streams, for the last three weeks. The streaming decline is so prevalent that Roku engineers had to acknowledge the problem yesterday, but declared the loss of quality as 'inexplicable' and most likely the fault of Netflix. Recent changes to the content distribution network (CDN) used by Netflix may have contributed to the problem, according to a ...

Netflix Roku Streaming Box Suffering From Serious Video Quality Issues [Roku]
Gizmodo — ... Apparently, the problem is serious enough that some are experiencing quality drops of 50% or more with extremely low connection speeds. Just how widespread this problem is remains to be seen, so I have to ask: if you own a Roku, have you noticed any quality issues lately? [Roku Forum via ...

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