Ronen said in an interview this week, should sell for around the price of an Apple TV ($200) and will easily connect to television sets,
Meanwhile, Boxee will reveal Thursday morning on its blog that the company will partner with an unnamed consumer electronics maker to sell a Boxee set-top box sometime next year. Roku says it will gradually expand the number of channels. Its box, bringing in content from Web sites like Blip.TV, Revision 3, TwiT TV and others to its heretofore movie-focused offering. Starting points, Boxee and Roku are now converging.Īccording to a Roku executive who spoke at a conference earlier this week, the company is about to add Roku Channels to Many have hooked their laptops running Boxee to their TV sets.
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Nevertheless, some 700,000 people have downloaded the software to either their computers or Apple TV devices. The company is perhaps best known for trying to add Hulu videos to its buffet and getting repeatedly blocked by the NBC/Fox/ABC Third-party developers to pipe in their own content. It began life about a year ago as a software program that aggregates a wide range of video from the Internet and also offers tools that allow The small black device is easy to connect to your TV and simple to use.īoxee, on the other hand, is a darling of sophisticated early adopter types. The company’s $99 set-top box accesses only movies in the streaming catalog of Netflix (an investor) and, more recently, addedįilms in Amazon’s Video on Demand service. Video on Demand, let’s juxtapose the two companies and ask: whose technology and recently announced innovations are more appealing?įor the last year and a half, Roku has been all about a singular focus on movies. In the spirit of Bits’s earlier comparison of Netflix’s Watch Instantly and Amazon
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