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Roku’s Chuck Seiber Talks Up ‘Channel Store’

By Alexander Grundner | November 13th, 2009 Interest Level: MODERATE


NewTeeVee Live Roku: Chuck Seiber

While watching Roku’s Chuck Seiber talk about the upcoming Channel Store and its “open” platform at NewTeeVee LIVE, it started sounding like Roku has some major plans for the Roku Player not too dissimilar to Boxee. Unlike Boxee, however, Roku is firmly set on selling its hardware product and not licensing the software frontend to CE manufactures.

The new Roku SDK will, according to Seiber, be open to anyone as long as they’re not a publisher of adult content. Developers will be able to create custom video channels and even infotainment widgets. Interestingly, Roku plans on keeping video channel layouts consistent with their UI guidelines, which are designed to be easily navigated with the product’s 9 button remote. The idea here is to keep things simple and provide users with content channels that look great on any size TV.

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Alexander Grundner is the Editor & Publisher of eHomeUpgrade. He has been following "Digital Home" developments since 2003. He's also a fan of cross-platform, open development software and industry standards related to media, networking, and the web. You can catch his daily tech musings on Twitter: @agrundner.
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