Roku set-top boxes, popular due to their small size, relatively cheap prices, and access to numerous streaming services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, Vudu, League Pass and many more, have been rooted, at least temporarily.
While the company is open to developers and custom channels, the hardware itself has stayed secure and locked down; at least until this week.
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My Roku 3 does exactly what I want it to right out of the box. Prob the one thing I have no reason to root. It's not like they are blocking any channels I might want or anything I can think of. What would be the point of this? Because we can?
Because with this mod, now people can use the Roku 2/3 as a true, inexpensive HTPC and run XBMC, which many are fond of. In other words, now it will be at least as capable as a $70 Android stick PC.
It's the exact same for phones. Yes, it does not make much sense to root a phone, either, if it does everything you want it to do (that the hardware is capable of). But that's often not the case, especially long after the device's release.
Some people demonstrably do need or want this capability.
Originally posted by mikealfred16:GSpot can be used to determine the codecs required for a movie to play. AVICodec, despite its name has better MPEG capabilities and thus is reccomended for MPEG files
What, exactly, does that have to do with Roku set-top boxes..?
