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Roku's Netflix Player: a hands-on review
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| It's small and silent, sports an array of ports on the back but only one tiny
| white LED on the front, and it can help you spend hours of time in front of
| your TV -- and it runs Linux. It's the Netflix Player from embedded device
| specialist Roku, and we got our hands on it for a review of the service and
| the hardware.
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| [...]
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| Whether you are a Netflix addict or not, Roku's friendly cooperation with the
| open source community and the promise of an SDK add up to a good environment
| in which to explore video-on-demand. The Netflix Player is a good product
| now; opening it up to additional services will make it better, and working
| with the development community will make it even better still.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/142729
Review: The Sandisk Sansa View
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| Thanks go out again to Sandisk for creating such a great PMP product, and for
| supporting the FOSS and Linux communities by powering their hardware with
| Linux.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=445
Linux is omnipresent in audio and digital video players. Apple and Microsoft
love pretending that it doesn't exist.
Recent:
Not iPhone: Roku Netflix player software goes open source
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| Remember the Roku Netflix set-top box that came out a little while ago? Well
| Roku has just released the code under the GPL, which got the MythTV community
| buzzing about getting its popular open source media center software onto the
| Roku box.
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http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/11/roku-netflix-player-software-goes-open-source/
Netflix Player from Roku Uses Linux Tech
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| Trolltech announced today that the new Netflix player from Roku utilizes its
| Qt for Embedded Linux. Qt for Embedded Linux was formerly known as Qtopia
| Core. The application is designed to allow manufacturers to build devices for
| one specific purpose.
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http://www.i4u.com/article18151.html
Netflix Player runs Linux
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| Movie distributor Netflix is offering a $100 set-top box aimed at enabling
| subscribers to stream movies on demand, using a broadband Internet
| connection. The player runs an embedded Linux OS and is supplied by Roku, a
| California-based company known for its Linux-based PVRs (personal video
| recorders).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8633598605.html
Related:
Myka sneaks BitTorrent into the living room
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| OK, perhaps not so sneaky, there's a nice big BitTorrent logo right up front,
| but Myka seems to be quite the end-to-end solution for getting those torrents
| up on the big screen. The box hooks up to the internet via LAN or WiFi,
| includes a 80GB, 160GB or a 500GB drive for storage and runs a torrent client
| on Linux.
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
Open Source DVR Challenges TiVo
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| A/V geeks and open source hackers alike are sure to fall in love
| with the MonolithMC HD DVR system, which runs the Linux based
| MythTV platform.
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http://gobloggit.com/?p=27
Gunning for Tivo in the GPL debate
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| In the ongoing battle between Linux kernel developers and the Free
| Software Foundation (FSF) over the future of the GNU Public License
| (GPL), somehow DVR-maker Tivo has become either the whipping boy or
| the poster child, depending on whose side you are on. FSF founder
| Richard Stallman even coined a term for what he sees as misuse of the
| GPL: "tivoization".
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http://uk.builder.com/0,39026540,39338597,00.htm
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