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Jason Dunn
12-16-2004, 06:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review2164.html' target='_blank'>http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review2164.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"If you are like us, you are picky about how your home theater system looks and sounds. You have paid a lot of money to get a system that expresses your tastes, so when it comes to a streaming media device you want the same. We have reviewed a large number of media devices this year, some look like network routers while others look like mini-computers, but none of them have looked as good as the Roku SoundBridge. All we ask for is a product that looks like it belongs with our home theater. And while the SoundBridge doesn’t look like another CD player, it is attractive enough that it fits the job – and it does it with minimalism."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/roku.jpg" /><br /><br />Roku makes some fantastic-looking products, and after reading this review, it seems they also work pretty well to boot. ;-) I'm quite interesting in one of these myself, and I have the perfect shelf for it - one that's not sturdy enough to support the weight of a full multi-disc CD player, but one that would support the Roku M2000 perfectly. Any of you own one of the Roku audio players? How do you like it?

Jonathon Watkins
12-17-2004, 12:45 PM
Very nice looking device. Shame about this though:

If Roku had added the ability to play shared drives or folders on your network, our score could have been higher

I want to get one of these type of devices at some point when I move house and change my stereo setup. Not yet though, but I will bookmark this for future reference.