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hotw00
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 Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:16 pm Post subject: What are the upcoming - confirmed - channels? |
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To accompany Netflix, Amazon VOD, and MLB.tv, what are the confirmed channels?
MediaFly (announced 7/20/09?):
http://bit.ly/pceuu
Blip.tv (announced 7/28/09?):
http://bit.ly/KtVLE
Revision3 (announced 10/15/09):
http://bit.ly/V05SW
TWiT (announced 9/27/09?) This was the best citation I could find - from Leo's twitter feed on 9/27:
http://leoville.com/leos-twitter-updates-for-the-week-of-2009-09-27
MHz Networks (announced 10/19/09):
http://bit.ly/3ihEhh
Screenshots have been seen with Flickr, Pandora, and the old one showing a YouTube channel. I'm not considering those confirmed - unless someone can cite otherwise.
I'm also not counting Playboy's mention of Hulu coming either. I cannot find right now if Roku/Hulu have officially made a "no comment" on that article or if either publicly refuted it.
Other confirmed channels I'm missing? |
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mrdavidpayne
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:22 am Post subject: Twit |
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| I think TWIT will be inside Media Fly |
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CRSharff
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:53 am Post subject: |
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You can't count it as a new channel but Roku has officially announced that Xbox style Netflix browsing would be coming.
http://bit.ly/1zg6zr
EDIT: I thought they were quoted as saying Fall 09 but I went back and looked at it and they said they were not sure on the ETA. |
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hotw00
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:30 am Post subject: |
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That's true. I have family that visits often and the ability to browse Netflix straight from the DVP will be greatly appreciated.
From what I've seen of the MediaFly, Blip.tv, TWiT, Rev3 demos it looks like they'll be built for browsing, too.
And I guess we can count the Roku Channel Store itself as an upcoming channel?
Ars technica cites a Roku spokesperson confirming support for Motionbox coming. It'll be interesting how that unfolds. Will I be able to upload video to motionbox.com and then watch it on my tv or share it with other members of my family with Roku boxes (via motionbox)?:
http://bit.ly/1IbSfA |
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mearsfan25
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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I highly doubt Hulu will be coming to the Roku box...
Hulu is the site that stopped boxee users from being able to view Hulu content on their TV's, the reason they have was Licensing restrictions..
Seems the owners of Hulu only want you to be able to watch it on your computer...
Now the site I'd like to see added to the Roku is CBS....They seem very forwarding thinking...they are on boxee and don't care...also they just signed on to Windows 7's Internet TV service from inside the Windows Media Center... sooo one can only hope! |
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billc124
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| mearsfan25 wrote: | I highly doubt Hulu will be coming to the Roku box...
Hulu is the site that stopped boxee users from being able to view Hulu content on their TV's, the reason they have was Licensing restrictions..
Seems the owners of Hulu only want you to be able to watch it on your computer...
Now the site I'd like to see added to the Roku is CBS....They seem very forwarding thinking...they are on boxee and don't care...also they just signed on to Windows 7's Internet TV service from inside the Windows Media Center... sooo one can only hope! |
CBS seems to have less shows online the the other providers. At least many of the shows I want to watch like Big Bang Theory are not available at CBS or TV.com. The boxee thing is not an issue anymore since they are just using a standard browser and it is impossible to tell that the browser viewing the site is Boxee. It isn't that CBS doesn't care about Boxee it is that there is nothing they can do about it. Windows 7 thing is the same thing, it is just using IE to fetch the content so again, nothing they can do about it. |
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BoloMKXXVIII
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:14 am Post subject: Pandora |
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| Pandora is one of the channels. HD Nation (part of Revision3) showed a demo of Revision3 content on the Roku and the Pandora icon is easily visible. |
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Mark12547
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:02 am Post subject: Re: Pandora |
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| BoloMKXXVIII wrote: | | Pandora is one of the channels. HD Nation (part of Revision3) showed a demo of Revision3 content on the Roku and the Pandora icon is easily visible. |
While that might be a good indication that serious effort is being made in that direction, I hope no one will take it as a given. Until public delivery, problems, both technical and human, can develop that prevent a channel from being delivered on the final product. |
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BoloMKXXVIII
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:41 am Post subject: Re: Pandora |
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| Mark12547 wrote: | | BoloMKXXVIII wrote: | | Pandora is one of the channels. HD Nation (part of Revision3) showed a demo of Revision3 content on the Roku and the Pandora icon is easily visible. |
While that might be a good indication that serious effort is being made in that direction, I hope no one will take it as a given. Until public delivery, problems, both technical and human, can develop that prevent a channel from being delivered on the final product. |
Good point. It isn't done until we have the new channels. In any case it is an indication that we should get Pandora soon. |
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