#APPLE VIDEO PLAYER FOR ROKU MAC OS#

Boxee is great for streaming movies and TV episodes from Comedy Central, Youtube, Hulu, etc., and for enjoying A/V content located on the PC or other local sources.

#APPLE VIDEO PLAYER FOR ROKU MAC OS#

Roku faces growing competition from other providers of Internet-based video-on-demand (VOD) STBs, such as BlockbusterвЂ™s STB (based on 2WireвЂ™s Digital Mediapoint STB), SyabasвЂ™s Popcorn Hour (aka NMT), LG, Samsung, AppleTV, and others.ДЄnother product putting pressure on Roku to grow its A/V-downloads support beyond those available from Netflix is BoxeeвЂ™s multimedia center software, which runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows PCs. This, according to the company, will give Roku STB users access to more than 40,000 commercial-free movies and television shows, at rental prices ranging from $0.99 to $3.99 for a 24 hour viewing window.

6, 2009 update: Amazon VOD coming soon! Roku has just announced that all Roku digital video player customers will receive a free and automatic software update in early 2009 that will add access to AmazonвЂ™s video on demand service.

Roku says it also plans to expand the $99 STBвЂ™s content sources - beyond Netflix video streaming - via further software updates that will be pushed out to the devices вЂњearly in 2009.вЂќ The updates will provide unspecified вЂњmovie channels, TV channels, Web video channels, and more.вЂќ Presumably this will include sources such as YouTube, Hulu, Comedy Central, MSNBC, etc. RokuвЂ™s digital video player STBs will soon show these new startup pages The HD-streaming update will be automatically delivered to all Roku-manufactured digital video player set-top boxes (STBs) вЂњfree-of-charge over the course of the next few weeks,вЂќ according to a Roku announcement.ДЄctually the new HD feature has already begun showing up in usersвЂ™ STBs, as evidenced by the surprise update that showed up on our Roku STB today:

The initial update adds advanced compression capable of streaming HD video over вЂњaverageвЂќ consumer broadband connections, Roku says. Roku has announced two updates to its $99 box that streams Netflix movies directly to TVs via the Internet.

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