Anyone that has met me knows I'm a bit of a "B" movie freak. I spend my time trying to find strange independent movies online, and talk with my friends about off movies mentioned on sites like bloodydisgusting.com and IMDB.
Recently I've been on a Troma kick, I just watched Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead and loved it, though some parts were over the top just a bit too much, it's a Troma movie, that's how they always are!
There was a very depressing bit at the begining with Lloyd Kaufman speaking out against the piracy China has been doing wih his movie, and how they were able to get "their" version, directed by the same guy that gave us Crash.
With all this in mind, I've also recently purchased a Roku Netflix player. It was quite a tough decision for me, I love my Mythbuntu install, but since I picked the 64 bit install using applications Boxee - http://www.boxee.tv, and having to just through the hoops of DRM and emulation of a Windows machine, I figured my time was better spent trying out something that is KNOWN to work, rather than praying for compilations and tweaks to pan out, and hopefully pretty moving picture stories on my TV screen...
Boy does the Roku player ever work! It's got about nine million outputs, HDMI, RCA, Optical Audio SPDIF, Wifi, Ethernet, for $99? Something seems a bit fishy... I guess somewhere someone is eating a bit of the cost.
I tried to watch just a few movies at first, then I thought "Hey this thing is actually working!" I didn't have to goto any forums and read what might be a solution, or see about 32 bit vs 64 bit hacks, just plug it in, setup your Netflix and Amazon accounts and go!
Now that I can see my queue, I have about three Troma movies on Netflix, and I still wish there were more available online.
I think the Roku player may in fact ruin my life, that or posting to a blog while putting one down in the bathroom just might...
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