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There's still a Blockbuster video rental store in my neighborhood. But for how long? These days, you can rent DVDs from a Redbox vending machine in supermarkets for $1 a day, order them from your cable ...

On Tuesday, Netflix announced a $99 box that connects to the Internet and a TV and allows some Netflix subscribers to watch unlimited movies.

Sure, the movie selection includes a lot of obscure offerings, the lack of a hard drive makes rewinding a pain, and picture quality varies greatly by connection speed.

The snailmail era of movie rentals had to end sooner or later. Netflix is taking to the Internet with The Netflix Player by Roku, a $99.99 box that lets subscribers instantly stream movies and TV episodes ...

It's the big horse race in the gadget market this year: Who's going to win consumers' hearts with a box that brings Internet movie downloads to the TV set? Now, we have a tiny box that deserves to be a winner.

“You can't really drive consumers to do anything before they're ready”

Preparing for the eventual extinction of its DVD-by-mail rental service, Netflix Inc. via 9NEWS

“As on-demand digital media revolutionizes the home entertainment experience, the demand for connected, powerful, and easy-to-use Internet media players is taking off”

Viewed 278 Times Comments Trolltech announced today that Roku, Inc. has selected Qt for Embedded Linux to be integrated into a soon-to-be-announced multimedia streaming product. via EHomeUpgrade

“Trolltech's Qt for Embedded Linux allows us to create a rich interface for tomorrow's streaming media devices and get them to market quickly.”

Filed in archive Portable Media Players by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 11, 2008 Roku makes a line of products that hooks your digital music to your conventional stereo system. via The Gadgets Weblog

Targeted at mid-range signage deployments, BrightSign achieves the best price-performance levels in the industry. via PR-inside.com

Roku, Inc.: Roku Corporate Overview Roku is the market leader for network music players, Internet radio and digital signage solutions. via Customer Interaction Solutions