Roku’s gone on the record and put a stake in the ground:

?We?re opening up the platform to anyone who wants to put their video service on this box,? says Wood. ?We?re going to release the software developer kit, so anyone can publish any channel, and users can access web content on their TVs.”

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While many probably think of me as a Slingbox homer, I’m also a HAVA owner. However, while employed by Sling, you might not have trusted me to objectively cover competitor Monsoon Multimedia - so I largely steered clear. (Like the Slingbox, HAVA boxes ($100 - $250) stream content from a variety of set-top boxes over a local network or beyond via the Internet.)