Roku Archive

  • You can now watch UFC on your Roku box

    You can now watch UFC on your Roku box

    UFC President Dana White believes the Internet is the future of television, so this Roku deal makes all kinds of sense. Beginning with next week's pay-per-view, UFC 114, Roku owners will be able to stream live UFC events right to their TV. It's in HD, too. Nothing but the best for you guys!

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  • The new Roku Netflix experience adds search, Instant Queue modification features

    The new Roku Netflix experience adds search, Instant Queue modification features

    Woot! Netflix for Roku's wee little box will be updated "soon" for Netflix subscribers, adding search functionality that the service badly needed. As you can see from this jaunty video, the entire UI has been improved and the standard "press left to see all of the other movies" is gone, giving you more movies per page and a considerably more streamlined experience. The best thing? You can now add movies to your queue from the box. Click through for a video and a bit more info.

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  • CrunchDeals: Buy a Roku HD Player, get $20 Amazon on Demand credit

    CrunchDeals: Buy a Roku HD Player, get $20 Amazon on Demand credit

    Roku's HD player is a great deal at $99, but it's an even better deal if you buy one now from Amazon. In addition to having a great Netflix box, you'll also be able to use Amazon's Video of Demand service, and to get you started they'll throw in $20 worth of credit.

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  • Marantz wants to Roku you for free (with purchase)

    Marantz wants to Roku you for free (with purchase)

    Yep, Marantz, makers of high end A/V equipment have a deal where if you buy one of their high performance Blu-ray players, they'll give a free Roku Play via mail-in-rebate. If you want to take advantage of this, you have until March 31st. Details (and press release) after the jump.

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  • Analysts: Blah blah Internet TV boxes are blah blah a dead end

    Analysts: Blah blah Internet TV boxes are blah blah a dead end

    Standalone set-top boxes like the Boxee Box and the Roku Player are good because they add Internet content to heretofore unconnected TVs. That’s a good thing. However, analysts at the Diffusion Group believe that the devices will eventually peter out to be replaced by Blu-Ray devices. I don’t quite understand their thinking here. Perhaps they think [...]

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  • CrunchDeals: Half-off Roku’s HD-XR

    CrunchDeals: Half-off Roku’s HD-XR

    Stop! Turn that car around! Roku is selling the HD-XR for half-off. There’s no reason to go to the store! The Roku is one of my favorite living room devices and it just got better. Now it’s $64.99 plus shipping and lets you watch Netflix, Amazon, and MLB content along with Facebook and Blip.tv videos. Good, [...]

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  • Roku bringing MLB.TV to their lineup

    Roku bringing MLB.TV to their lineup

    Own a Roku? Are you so much of a baseball fan that you've signed up for the MLB.TV premium package? Then we have a surprise for you: Roku just announced that they've added MLB.TV's live, out of market baseball games to their available channels.

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