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Plex on Roku a reality now
05/03/2011, Plex is on a mission – no, not to take down the world’s most wanted man, but to make sure that Plex will be made available as widely as possible across multiple platforms. Imagine all of your precious media files [...]
YouTube removed from Roku
04/21/2011, As most of you Roku owners would know, the set top box doesn’t come with an official channel for you to stream YouTube videos on the set top box. However, an unofficial, unlicensed channel was created as a workaround, and [...]
Roku XD media hub arrives at Best Buy
03/30/2011, Roku intends to enter the retail scene in a big way with its Roku X Dmedia hub, after agreeing to a key deal with Best Buy. This mid-range Roku XD will be available on both retail and online sources, and [...]
Roku supports Amazon Prime Instant Video Service
02/22/2011, Amazon has just launched their Prime Instant Video Service that basically allows their Prime members the ability to stream video on demand for free (well not really free if you take into account the $79 annual fee they have to [...]
Roku boxes receive USB playback and Al Jazeera English
02/01/2011, Don’t you just love firmware updates? It can basically introduce a new lease of life into your device, and the Roku box is no different. In fact, its latest firmware update allows Roku boxes to handle playback of media from [...]
Roku: 1 billion streams served
01/05/2011, With 2010 just a few days behind us, the folks over at Roku have some happy announcements to make. The company has hit a pretty significant milestone, serving over 1 billion streams to TVs, ensuring that the company is competing [...]
Apple TV sales to top 1 million units this week
12/21/2010, We know that Roku’s sales practically doubled after the new Apple TV was launched, but that doesn’t mean the Apple TV did extremely poor in the market – no sir, Apple suits are expecting their latest Apple TV iteration to [...]
Roku Sales Doubled After Apple TV Launch
12/21/2010, When Apple announced its updated Apple TV unit, many folks speculated that it would have a negative effect on Roku’s sales. Now Roku’s CEO, Anthony Wood, has said that the result has been the opposite of that, with sales doubling [...]
Roku licenses software to keep up with the competition
10/27/2010, Netgear recently announced that they will be offering a $90 set top box which will be powered by Roku’s software, as Roku is working on seeing how alternative business models will help them remain ni teh game. Despite having a [...]
Roku media streaming box offers PlayOn now
10/25/2010, Those who are interested in picking up one of Roku’s range of media streaming boxes will have yet another option to retrieve online entertainment content via PlayOn. PlayOn is capable of delivering online material from Hulu, PBS, TBS, ESPN, CNN, [...]
Hulu Plus Streaming Confirmed for Roku Set-Top Boxes
09/28/2010, Roku had just confirmed that Hulu Plus streaming will be coming to all of the company’s set-top box models beginning this fall. Confirmation came after numerous websites had picked up on leaks of the forthcoming service. According to Roku, Hulu [...]
Hulu Plus Coming To Roku Streaming Boxes
09/27/2010, While it hasn’t been officially confirmed, word is going around that Roku’s media boxes could soon be getting access to Hulu Plus content. Apparently a photo of the user interface was already sighted and content partners have confirmed that the [...]
Roku XD and XDS HD streaming players are nigh affordable
09/22/2010, Don’t think that High Definition streaming players will burn a hole in your pocket – Roku makes sure of this with their new line of HD streaming players that are known as the XD and XDS models, bringing features such [...]
