Fwd: iClarified - Apple News - Roku Announces New Roku Streaming Stick (HDMI)

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Fwd: iClarified - Apple News - Roku Announces New Roku Streaming Stick (HDMI)

Owen Densmore
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Lovely new form factor for Roku and its small remote:
   
http://www.iclarified.com/38830/roku-announces-new-roku-streaming-stick-hdmi
This looks like a trend: all the Internet TV critters will look like the Google TV dongle plugging directly into an HTMI TV input port .. USB for TV.  Apparently no power cord: the HTMI has 5V DC AFAIK.

Another trend is for the Internet TV devices, and even modern TVs themselves, to have "An App For That" .. a "remote" that includes the usual navigation/volume/etc but also has a TV Guide and lets you have a phone/tablet keyboard for typing in searches and access to your "libraries" (itunes, amazon, hulu, etc).

Not quite sure of the relationship between Roku and Amazon.

   -- Owen


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Re: Fwd: iClarified - Apple News - Roku Announces New Roku Streaming Stick (HDMI)

Russell Standish-2
Except what I really want to do is play DVD images. Trouble is, CSS has
a way of getting in the way, so I end up having to plug in my laptop, where
I have DeCSS-enabled software installed.

Other than that, I plug a USB harddrive directly into the TV, where I
have already extracted the movie from the DVD as an AVI file. Works
95% of the time.

Cheers

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 09:48:24AM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:

> Lovely new form factor for Roku and its small remote:
>    
> http://www.iclarified.com/38830/roku-announces-new-roku-streaming-stick-hdmi
>
> This looks like a trend: all the Internet TV critters will look like the
> Google TV dongle plugging directly into an HTMI TV input port .. USB for
> TV.  Apparently no power cord: the HTMI has 5V DC AFAIK.
>
> Another trend is for the Internet TV devices, and even modern TVs
> themselves, to have "An App For That" .. a "remote" that includes the usual
> navigation/volume/etc but also has a TV Guide and lets you have a
> phone/tablet keyboard for typing in searches and access to your "libraries"
> (itunes, amazon, hulu, etc).
>
> Not quite sure of the relationship between Roku and Amazon.
>
>    -- Owen

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