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Jeff Campbell
11-23-2009, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.macworld.com/article/144032/2009/11/rokusoftwareupdate.html?lsrc=rss_news' target='_blank'>http://www.macworld.com/article/144...l?lsrc=rss_news</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Roku will announce on Monday a major update to the software powering the company's Roku Player models. As part of that update, the company will also introduce the new Roku Channel Store."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/zt/auto/1258946828.usr105634.jpg" /></p><p><a href="http://www.roku.com/" target="_blank">Roku</a> is certainly heading in the right direction, having already provided streaming content from <a href="http://www.netflix.com" target="_blank">Netflix</a>, Amazon's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/b/?&amp;node=16261631" target="_blank">Video on Demand</a> and <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/index.jsp?product=mlbtv&amp;affiliateId=MLBTVREDIRECT" target="_blank">MLB.TV</a>. Now with the new Channel Store, you get ten more channels to choose from including <a href="http://www.blip.tv/" target="_blank">blip.tv</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/" target="_blank">Flickr</a>, <a href="http://www.pandora.com/" target="_blank">Pandora</a> and <a href="http://revision3.com/" target="_blank">Revision3</a>. They have 3 boxes to choose from ranging in price from the standard definition box for roughly $80.00 USD to the HD box for about $130.00 USD.&nbsp;</p>