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Roku bringing more content providers to set-top box

article published on 4 July, 2008

Roku has announced that it will be bringing more streaming content providers to its new set-top box soon, allowing users to have more content than just movies and TV from Netflix. The Roku box has been very popular since its release, even though only 10 percent of Netflix's content is available for streaming and the quality is just under DVD. When the support for other content providers ... [ read the full article ]

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DXR88
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4 product reviews
_ 		4. July 2008 @ 02:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
A nice piece of Hardware that could have been, unfortunately i feel it will be shunned off by petty Internet provider Squabbles?

Of course with a little Hacking i actually see more than just a movie rental box, perhaps a home streaming device in general.
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BobL
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_ 		4. July 2008 @ 08:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It doesn't support CC (closed-captioning). Too bad they cut corners and didn't add this support. I'd love to have this box but need to have CC. I'm very disappointed in Netflix. Hopefully their next model will have CC.
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Shaggy69
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_ 		6. July 2008 @ 12:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well said BobL, I too would very much like that feature enabled. until then I will wait for the CC feature.
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