electronics broadcast media founded october 2002 ; 14 years ago 2002 10 headquarters los gatos california key people anthony wood ceo products roku 1 ; roku 2 ; roku 3 ; roku 4 ; roku streaming stick ; roku tv number of employees 400 1 website www.roku.com roku inc. ro ku roh koo 2 is an american private company that manufactures home digital media products . the company is based in los gatos california . 3 roku manufactures a variety of digital media players that allow customers to access internet streamed video or audio services through televisions including subscription based services as well as services that are available through the receiver free of charge . roku licenses its hardware and software to other companies . 4 5 6 contents 1 company profile 2 legacy products 3 roku streaming player 4 references 5 external links company profile edit the company was founded in october 2002 by replaytv founder anthony wood . roku means six in japanese a reference to the six companies wood has launched . 7 legacy products edit roku s consumer products line up included photobridge hd1000 a system for displaying images on a high definition television as well as streaming mpeg video . the unit has four card readers on the front and can read from a compactflash card type ii memory stick multimediacard sd memory card or smartmedia card 8 roku soundbridge a network music player 9 soundbridge radio a network music player with built in speakers and subwoofer am fm receiver volume ramping alarm clock preset buttons sd slot and headphone jack 10 for retailers roku also produced brightsign solid state media player designed to drive hd displays in a retail environment . 11 roku s audio products did not use internal storage but relied on wi fi or ethernet to stream digital audio over a network either from internet radio or a computer attached to the same network . 12 13 roku introduced the radio roku internet radio directory in august 2007 ; radio roku provides a directory of internet stations accessible from a web browser or from soundbridge players . roku streaming player edit the xd s has hdmi and component output for high definition video on new and older televisions . main article roku roku streaming players are set top boxes for the delivery of over the top content . content on the roku streaming players is provided by roku partners identified using the channel vernacular . each separate channel supports content from one partner though some content partners have more than one channel . in may 2011 roku stated the streaming players had over one million viewers and had delivered 15 million channel downloads . both on demand content and live streaming are supported by the devices . for live tv streams roku supports apple hls http live streaming adaptive streaming technology . both free and paid channels such as netflix hulu plus amazon video and others are available as well as some games . roku streaming players are an open platform device with a freely available sdk that enables anyone to create new channels . 14 the channels are written in a roku specific language called brightscript a scripting language the company calls similar to visual basic . 15 references edit evangelista benny april 16 2012 . roku pins tv s future on internet streaming . sfgate . hearst corporation . p. 2 . retrieved march 29 2014 . ogden jon april 26 2007 . re rock you or row coo . roku forums . roku inc. retrieved june 14 2011 . company . roku inc. september 14 2013 . retrieved june 14 2011 . brustein joshua october 3 2013 . roku s survival will take more than beating apple tv . bloomberg businessweek . bloomberg l.p. retrieved march 29 2014 . hachman mark october 27 2010 . roku says it will license platform . pc magazine . ziff davis . retrieved march 29 2014 . gibbs sam august 1 2013 . now tv box review this 10 box is miles better than it should be . gizmodo uk ed . . future publishing . retrieved march 29 2014 . stevens cindy loffler december 5 2012 . 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