{"id":645476,"date":"2013-03-06T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=134516"},"modified":"2013-03-06T08:57:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T13:57:52","slug":"roku-3-released-with-new-ui-motion-sensitive-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645476","title":{"rendered":"Roku 3 released with new UI, motion sensitive remote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-134545\" title=\"roku 3\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/roku-3-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/>I knew this would happen. After battling to decide between Roku and Google TV and opting to buy the Vizio Co Star, Roku has gone and released its brand new Roku 3 box this morning, and also made me jealous of all the cool stuff the company has added into its latest set top box.<\/p>\n<p>Roku&#8217;s vice president of business development, Jim Funk, made the announcement this morning that the company is &#8220;excited to introduce the new, fully loaded Roku 3 &#8212; our fastest, most powerful streaming player to-date&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The box comes with a completely\u00a0revamped user interface designed to provide quicker access and greater visibility, especially for customers who have installed a lot of channels. The Roku Channel Store and Search are now fully integrated into the home screen\u00a0and have been redesigned with a new on-screen experience to make browsing simpler.<\/p>\n<p>Gaming on the little box has also been improved because the new remote control is motion-sensitive. The Roku 3 comes with Angry Birds pre-installed to invite you to try out that functionality. In addition, the RC has a built-in headphone jack. When plugged in, it automatically switches the audio over to your ears and mutes any external speakers &#8212; handy for moving around while listening to music and not disturbing the rest of your home. However, the company failed to cite what the range for this capability is.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not want to replace your\u00a0existing\u00a0box just yet then you can hold out and the new UI will begin rolling out to Roku 2 devices in April. Otherwise, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roku.com\/roku-products\" >Roku3 is available now<\/a> for $99. I wonder if my wife would kill me if I bought two set top boxes within a month of each other?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q-8___cT5xI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=G9gzodPHDOo:T1d-NY9AE7E:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=G9gzodPHDOo:T1d-NY9AE7E:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/G9gzodPHDOo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew this would happen. After battling to decide between Roku and Google TV and opting to buy the Vizio Co Star, Roku has gone and released its brand new Roku 3 box this morning, and also made me jealous of all the cool stuff the company has added into its latest set top box. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}