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Inside the Tech of the Roku Netflix Player

Posted by kdawson on from the no-disks-please-we're-videophiles dept.

MojoKid writes "A little over a week ago Netflix unveiled the Netflix Player, developed by the team at Roku, a set-top box for watching on-demand movies and TV. This interview with Tim Twerdahl, the VP of Consumer Products for Roku, goes into some detail about the guts of the box and the future of the set-top box. Of course the system runs an embedded Linux OS, but interestingly also runs on a Nexperia (Philips) media processor."

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  1. Yes, but.... by meadowsoft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    can it run MythTV or playback my video collection?

    That little array of closely packed output options has this box screaming for a hack.