Well, I already had all the hardware, and the hard disks already have most of the content. I kind of disagree about gamepads being bad remotes. The default map

Well, I already had all the hardware, and the hard disks already have most of the content. I kind of disagree about gamepads being bad remotes. The default mappings are bad and I do agree about the triggers. We don't need more than half the control to do forward and rewind. I had remapped mine, particularly to add changing subtitles and audio streams. But: the gamepad is the control I can use without having to look at it, because it is not a matrix of similar rectangular buttons, and after a while everything is just second nature. For me, nothing is faster or more intuitive now. And the buttons are REAL solid buttons, not crappy pieces of rubber. I get frustrated when I have to use a regular remote control now. I don't use Netflix because I'm not in the USA and in South America it honestly sucks. And they hunt and shutdown VPNs now. However, nothing beats the price of your Roku for a new setup. That one I concede. Your setup is much cheaper. But you can't play Batman Arkham games on it :D