Recent Posts Tagged With 'roku'

• Roku Adding Channel Store

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 15:12 in Flickr, streaming, netflix, revision3, facbook, roku, channel store

  Roku is adding a Channel Store it’s it’s Roku players. They promised 10 more content sources by the end of the year and they hit the mark. Channel store will allow you to add sources to your Roku player from places like revision3, pand...

• Roku Launches New Netflix Players, Makes Me Wonder Why

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 21:25 in hd, streaming, netflix, sd, roku, hd-xr

  Roku is now offering the Roku SD ($79.99), Roku HD ($99.99) and the Roku HD-XR ($129.99). The Roku HD is the former player. I’m thinking their strategy seems a little crazy. You start offering the HD box. Most companies want to go HD along ...

• DVPRemote Updated For Better Roku Control

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 20:37 in apple, Mobile, iphone, update, application, app, ipod touch, roku, dvpremote

  I posted about DVPRemote before, which allows you to control your Roku box with your iPhone or iPod Touch. There is a new version that has some major improvements. The graphics has been redone to look like the Roku remote. It auto-discovers the Ro...

• iPhone Remote for Roku

  Posted on Sunday August 30th, 2009 at 21:27 in iphone, application, remote, ipod touch, roku, dvpremote

  DVPRemote is a iPhone/iPod Touch application that allows you to control the Roku box. You have to be connected to WiFi on the same network as the Roku box. I don’t have much of a need for it but it’s just cool it’s possible. The ...

• Roku Added MLB.TV

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 12:11 in hardware, streaming, mlb.tv, roku, set-top

  MLB.TV is now available on the Roku box. It’s nice to see them adding services. It was already announced that Mediafly is coming this fall so that will make a total of 4 services on the Roku digital media player. Having MLB.TV will make some...

• Mediafly Coming to the Roku Box

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 22:22 in hardware, streaming, roku, mediafly, roku box

  Mediafly is coming the the Roku box this fall. Mediafly delivers audio and video podcasts for free. It looks like a nice service with a lot of podcasts. They also have clients for the iPhone, popcorn hour, chumby, blackberry and RSS. It’s n...

• Playboy Says Hulu Coming to Roku Soon

  Posted on Tuesday June 2nd, 2009 at 18:35 in hardware, playboy, streaming, hulu, roku

  Playboy’s recent issue (June 2009) states that Hulu is coming to the Roku box soon. This has been posted around before and I’m sure that Roku would love to have Hulu. At $99 for their box I’m sure they would sell a ton of them. I...

• Video: Amazon On Demand HD on the Roku Box

  Posted on Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 at 21:51 in hardware, streaming, netflix, on demand, roku, amazon vod

  Engadget got a preview of Amazon on demand HD for the Roku box. I have two Roku boxes at home and can honestly say I haven’t used Amazon at all. While the HD does look good it’s not good enough to spend the money. As of right now the s...

• Roku Added Amazon VOD Today

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 06:46 in hardware, amazon, streaming, vod, roku

  Roku today updated the Netflix box to include Amazon video on demand. I wasn’t that impressed when they first announced it and after playing around with it last night I’m still not impressed. While you do get access to a lot of new rele...