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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