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maybe you waited through my recent top five TVs which actually was nine of the damn things lots of ties well to reward you for that I've got the perfect side dish top 5 home video gear devices to go with that new TV and yes it's actually five this time let's go warming things up at number five the brand new roku XDS streaming player you want to join the whole screw you cable company movement this is about the best way to do it for a little bit of money under a hundred bucks you'll get Netflix Amazon Pandora MLB TV Hulu Plus for a fee no iTunes or YouTube support though hmmm this will not raise the vein on your forehead when you're setting it up either we like the simplicity and go for this XDS version because it has a USB port for playing your own movies off a thumb drive rounds out the package nicely number four is the slingbox solo our favorite place shifting device now I think slingbox is something of a niche device personally you either don't need one or you absolutely love it it takes whatever is on on your home media system and streams it to just about any computer smartphone or other device that can run the sling software it's great if you have one of those pricey live sports packages and you'll waste a bunch of it because you're away from the house all the time you can get one of these guys for as little as one hundred and sixty dollars coming in at number three the samsung BD c 6500 blu-ray deck it's our favorite straight up blu-ray player but even if you're just lukewarm on blu-ray itself like yours truly.this box also gets you streaming services like netflix vudu and youtube it has seven dot once-around outputs and a gigabyte of storage on board plus built-in Wi-Fi oh and Samsung is pushing their own apps platform now so down the road aways you'll be able to load this thing up with what you want and make it a personalized home media terminal at number two we have the harmony one do it all and make it easy unified remote these guys kind of own this space and the model one is the sweet spot of airline in our opinion you program tasks like let's say play DVD in five dot one audio via HDMI input to you put all that into a little macro and that's programmed via a web service could not be easier okay before we hit the number one present you should give your TV look at how many TVs we own good grief the latest Nielsen numbers show just seventeen percent of households are scraping by with one television twenty-eight percent of us have two and fifty five percent of our households have three or more in fact the average now is three TV sets in the home okay let's reveal the number one best piece of home video gear to hook up to at least one of those TVs it's the sony ps3 slim just about the priciest thing at 350 but still the best value games blu-ray online streaming from their service as well as others like Netflix and Sony just gave it a 3d update so now you've got some future proofing there with a compatible 3d TV full details on all these products are over at Matt miskova ex list on cnet and keep an eye on it if you're in the market because this is a very hot sector and new products are popping up all the time just go to cnet click the home video category then best home video products or just go to our page its top 5 cnet com I'm Brian Cooley thanks for watching