Roku to build TVs (CES)

[Kraven]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/06/tech/gaming-gadgets/roku-tvs/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5

Considering how popular Roku is.. this was the next logical step.

Cheers, K

 

[mike123abc]

Roku is just letting TV makers put the Roku hardware in the TVs. I am personally not going to buy a smart TV because of the smartTV features. If I buy a set that does have those features, I may use them. I rather just replace the $100 or less box as needed than the TV as upgrades in streaming technology happen.

 

[Need]

Roku is just letting TV makers put the Roku hardware in the TVs. I am personally not going to buy a smart TV because of the smartTV features. If I buy a set that does have those features, I may use them. I rather just replace the $100 or less box as needed than the TV as upgrades in streaming technology happen.

But if there are 2 TVs that are identical, one with in house apps (like Samsung's) and one with built in Roku.... I will take the one with Roku any day!

 

[Kraven]

Compared to my Sony 55" "Smart" 3D bravia, Roku is miles ahead in content and performance. Problem is when buying a TV, you can see the visuals but can't test the smart features.

 

[Blindowl1234]

I'll stick with my Roku 3 for now. I can imagine buying a TV with Roku built in and it malfunctioning down the road. It would be as useless as the tv's that had built in VHS or DVD players in them. I also wonder if Roku technology changes in a year or two if the built Roku in would be useless as well.

 

[Peter Parker]

Will they really build them or just license the name and software to Chinese manufacturers?

 

[Kraven]

Will they really build them or just license the name and software to Chinese manufacturers?

Good question. Am guessing its a licensing deal w/ the Chinese manufacturers. I cant see Roku developing other hardware on their own.

 

[Titanium]

Licensing the technology to TV manufacturers.

Excited that this may be the first step towards releasing a smart device app....

 

[mike123abc]

Will they really build them or just license the name and software to Chinese manufacturers?

The article pretty much said licensed to the TV manufacturer. Which is another reason I would probably never buy one based on this feature.

 

[navychop]

Not sure there'd be much, if any, Roku-specific hardware. Smart TVs would already have the important stuff, ready for software.

 

[madmadworld]

I'll stick with my Roku 3 for now. I can imagine buying a TV with Roku built in and it malfunctioning down the road. It would be as useless as the tv's that had built in VHS or DVD players in them. I also wonder if Roku technology changes in a year or two if the built Roku in would be useless as well.

have built in DVR in my 2006 Mitsubishi WD-62827 and wonder why this feature did not become more popular. still use it today for OTA recording.

 

[navychop]

have built in DVR in my 2006 Mitsubishi WD-62827 and wonder why this feature did not become more popular. still use it today for OTA recording.

SHHH! It's still working. Don't jinx it!

 

[madmadworld]

SHHH! It's still working. Don't jinx it!

i thought about that......but

 

[Kraven]

have built in DVR in my 2006 Mitsubishi WD-62827 and wonder why this feature did not become more popular. still use it today for OTA recording.

Any guesses on when the first TV w/ built in DVR will come around? I can see a TV in the near futured that DVR enabled when connecting an
external hard drive to it.

Am going to say fall 2014

Cheers, K

 

[Tampa8]

Been done for years, just not in the U.S. My LG (Same one that has had the Hopper App for a year) is capable of being a DVR but not when it is set as a U.S. location.

 

[madmadworld]

Any guesses on when the first TV w/ built in DVR will come around? I can see a TV in the near futured that DVR enabled when connecting an
external hard drive to it.

Am going to say fall 2014

Cheers, K

mine is 8 years old almost so it won't be the first.

as far as i know there have been 2 mfg. Mitsubishi and i think a LG both in 2005-06 time frame here in NA.
it could happen again but no idea. would guess never in my lifetime. so next year lol

 

[Kraven]

mine is 8 years old almost so it won't be the first.

as far as i know there have been 2 mfg. Mitsubishi and i think a LG both in 2005-06 time frame here in NA.
it could happen again but no idea. would guess never in my lifetime. so next year lol

LG's site has it as discontinued. Wonder why..

 

[madmadworld]

LG's site has it as discontinued. Wonder why..

make no $$$


when i got mine thought every mfg would make them soon....wrong again.
it was $350-450 more if i recall. not bad imo then. ...now it's priceless.

 

[. Raine]

Sony had an LCD TV a while back that had a computer motherboard, hard drive, DVD drive, NIC, essentially a whole computer in it, that I think was an attempt to make a home media center, it had a hyper-threading 3.0 GHZ P-4 processor and something like a few gig of ram.

I've only seen two of them in a load of junk TV's I picked up and in both of them the computer motherboard was cooked really bad around where the power supply connected. Don't know what the model # was and haven't ever seen a working/fixable one, so I don't really know for sure. Remember I popped the processor out of one and used it to upgrade an old Dell that I had at the time.

 

[madmadworld]

come on Sony lovers gotta be 1 here. tell us about this TV.