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It is a Roku just modded to remove all the competition Sky does not like e.g Netflix, Loveflim and so on.
There's no XBMC Roku so don't bother, it's a waste of money. Why bother buying boxes in the hope they will be hacked, there units you can buy that run XBMC with no hacks required like the Pivos XIOS, The Little Black Box or even the Ouya.
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Pivos £70, Ouya £100, Roku LT here £10. I took a chance, it backfired. Very worst case distance selling regs it straight back.
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I don't think he's hating on the Roku. He's saying two things, one is that what makes the Roku great has been stripped from this box, and two, it's a dead end for XBMC. Normally Roku is an excellent box, and a lot of XBMC users also have Roku boxes to supplement their home theaters with additional streaming services.
At that price, I would be tempted to pick one up, even nerfed as it is. That's quite cheap.
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For the record, we have no problem with people sounding like XBMC fanboys within the XBMC forums. I mean, if you can't be an XBMC fanboy here, where can you be one?
People are also fully allowed to hate on plex and roku here if they choose to.
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i bought one of these as well as i read the now tv box could be updated but apparently not this one i have managed to load plex on it but none of the channels work does anyone have a good tutorial on how to set the plex up correctly
and will the old white now tv box run xbmc