My pick for this year’s consumer entertainment breakthrough product is the Roku, the small black box that’s been seriously dictating what I watch on my TV these past few months. For you market-research folks out there, I’m a cable subscriber (the horrid company, yes), also a Netflix subscriber and have a good selection of DVDs. I also own a PS3 which I use primarily to play Blu-Ray movies, and games every once in a while. I was quite happy with this setup till I found the Roku - which so far is slowly replacing all of these channels and devices thanks to its ease-of-use and high availability.

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