Roku NetFlix HD-XR Player 1/2 Off (Black Friday Special) - Don't Bet on Getting Through
Roku is running a Black Friday sale on their HD-XR Streamer. Good luck getting thought however, as the site timed out right at 11am EST when I attempted to access - the site came down for a while, now (11:45am EST) they are back to another offer.
According to their original site message: "Please note: because of the extreme nature of this offer, it is possible our web site might overload. If this happens, you could receive an error message. It could be frustrating, but we hope you're successful! "
I had better luck getting Allman Brothers tickets at the Beacon Theater in NYC when they went on sale - if Roku was expecting a surge of stampeding purchasers they should have ramped up their server load/added edge capacity, I sent out the email release to a hundred people and feel Roku let their customers down. Seriously, for a company selling a solution for streaming video content, i.e. high bandwidth content it does not look good if they can not keep a simple transaction site up even if there were 100,000 or more hits...
Check out our review of both the Roku and Vudu streamer solutions on the right column of the site however, if you have a Tivo, you can link either you NetFlix or Blockbuster account to your existing DVR and avoid having another box...
