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Possible Roku Killer?
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<p>[QUOTE="Rickideemus, post: 115710, member: 12677"]Wait. Really!? Can you get <u><em>all</em></u> the Roku channels on this box? All the free channels, including private 3rd party stuff?? Doesn't that violate Roku's copyright? Or is this just clever wording, as in <em>"all the content <strong>I currently watch</strong>"</em>, and who the heck knows what THAT is?</p><p></p><p>That's really the crux of the matter. If you can get all the Roku content -- if you can subsume their entire infrastructure, built up over so many years, just by making a little box -- then Roku really is dead meat. What about the program guide information? Isn't that put together by Roku? They can't just steal that, can they??</p><p></p><p>Naaaaaaawww, CAN'T BE. If that was possible, there'd be open source PC programs that pulled up all Roku content on a laptop. But if I'm wrong, I really wanna know!</p><p></p><p>Rick[/QUOTE]</p><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rickideemus, post: 115710, member: 12677"]Wait. Really!? Can you get [U][I]all[/I][/U] the Roku channels on this box? All the free channels, including private 3rd party stuff?? Doesn't that violate Roku's copyright? Or is this just clever wording, as in [I]"all the content [B]I currently watch[/B]"[/I], and who the heck knows what THAT is? That's really the crux of the matter. If you can get all the Roku content -- if you can subsume their entire infrastructure, built up over so many years, just by making a little box -- then Roku really is dead meat. What about the program guide information? Isn't that put together by Roku? They can't just steal that, can they?? Naaaaaaawww, CAN'T BE. If that was possible, there'd be open source PC programs that pulled up all Roku content on a laptop. But if I'm wrong, I really wanna know! Rick[/QUOTE]
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