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<h5><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em>Roku's expanding their offerings with three new boxes: HD at $60, XD at $80 and XDS at $100. With just $40 separating the bottom from the top, why would you not go for the 1080p, 802.11n dual band streaming?</em></span></h5>
<h5><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em> </em></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em> </em></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em>Both the XD and XDS have 1080p over HDMI as well as 802.11n (HD is only 720p), where the XDS has that dual-band and component out, as well as optical audio and a USB port for playing back local music, photos and video. This capability is a free upgrade for the XDS in November 2010.</em></span></h5>
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<h5><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em>But what does Roku stream? Netflix, Amazon VOD, Pandora music, MLB, UFC, as well as smaller, nichier channels like Vimeo and Flixster and the like.</em></span></h5>
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<h5><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em>The top two models also have TiVo/Windows Media Center's 7-second skip back, which they claim is a first for internet streamers. Why nobody else hasn't done this before is kind of a surprise, since it just requires them to keep a small buffer of video so people can quickly leap back if they tuned out for a few seconds</em></span></h5>
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