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 Amazon’s video on demand service. Roku says it also plans to expand the $99 STB’s content sources - beyond Netflix video streaming - via further software updates that will be pushed out to the devices “early in 2009.” The updates will provide unspecified “movie channels, TV channels, Web video channels, and more.” Presumably this will include sources such as YouTube, Hulu, Comedy Central, MSNBC, etc. Roku’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) “free-of-charge over the course of the next few weeks,” according to a Roku announcement.Īctually the new HD feature has already begun showing up in users’ 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 “average” 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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