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When you pop a Blu-ray disc into the LG BD390 ($300, price as of December 14, 2009), prepare to be impressed. The images it delivered to an HDTV were among the best we’ve ever seen.

Streaming media players that relay Internet video content to TVs are becoming increasingly common–but ones that do it well and reliably for HDTV over a wireless network are less so. That’s why the Roku HD-XR is a real gem: For $130 (as of 11/24/09), it delivers high-definition content from Netflix,..