Roku Introduces RadioRoku.com Guide to Internet Radio.Most Comprehensive Guide Lets Consumers Easily Find Reliable Internet Radio Listening to audio broadcasts via the Internet. There are more than 4,000 broadcasts available on the Internet that can be streamed and played by a software media player in the computer or in a stand-alone Internet radio with the software built in. Streams PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Roku today announced Radio Roku (www.radioroku.com), a comprehensive online directory of more than 4,000 Internet radio stations from around the world. With Radio Roku, consumers can easily browse and listen to radio streams on their PCs or their Roku SoundBridge See Soundbridge. network music players. In fact, Roku will use SoundBridge network music players in the market to monitor the reliability of streams offered via Radio Roku. Roku SoundBridge owners will be offered an automatic update to the newest 3.0 software on their network music players today to enable this feature. "Radio stations change their streams often, making it difficult for consumers to know where to tune to listen in," said Roku Founder and Chairman Anthony Wood Anthony Wood or Anthony à Wood (December 17, 1632 - November 28, 1695) was an English antiquary. He was the fourth son of Thomas Wood (1580-1643), B.C.L. of Oxford, where Anthony was born. . "Now, with Radio Roku, we've created an easy and intuitive way to connect consumers with a world of Internet radio that was once too vast to navigate. People can discover and experience music whether the station is local or on a completely different continent." From rock and punk to jazz or eclectic e·clec·tic adj. 1. Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles: an eclectic taste in music; an eclectic approach to managing the economy. 2. , Radio Roku allows users to browse the largest directory of Internet radio stations by genre, quality and popularity; listen to a large selection of local and international content and stay up-to-date with news, talk or sports. Upon free registration, Radio Roku can remember favorite stations, let consumers add their own favorite station to Radio Roku's database and help the Roku community by improving the data about a station. In addition, Radio Roku features user-customizable widgets that allow for easy browsing, searching for live updates of content and controlling Roku SoundBridge players on a home network. These widgets include: * Now Playing - Shows live updates of the songs playing on stations around the world, and allows the user to quickly tune in to hear a favorite track. * Top Stations - Displays the most listened to stations based on genre, location or natively spoken language * Search Stations - Searches all radio stations by name or description * Audio Browser A Web browser that provides a text-to-speech capability for the blind and visually impaired. Because Web pages are coded in HTML, the audio browser can readily identify links, article headers, body text and other attributes, allowing users to skip around the page. - Alphabetically al·pha·bet·i·cal also al·pha·bet·ic adj. 1. Arranged in the customary order of the letters of a language. 2. Of, relating to, or expressed by an alphabet. lists stations based on name, genre, location and native language spoken * Favorites - Remember users' favorite stations, and makes those favorites available for easy access on their SoundBridge players * Volunteer Center - Enables users to participate in the development of the database * Find Devices - Automatically discovers Roku SoundBridge devices on the local network, making them available for use with the web site's Favorites and remote control features * SoundBridge - Allows the user to control their SoundBridge players right from the web page. Users may now set Internet radio presets and choose stations to play without leaving their browser For more information about Radio Roku, visit www.radioroku.com. For information on Roku and its line of SoundBridge network music players, visit www.rokulabs.com. About Roku Roku is a privately held digital media company located in Palo Alto, Calif., and founded by Anthony Wood, the inventor INVENTOR. One who invents or finds out something. 2. The patent laws of the United States authorize a patent to be issued to the original inventor; if the invention is suggested by another, he is not the inventor within the meaning of those laws; but in that of the digital video recorder See DVR. (DVR (1) (Digital Video Recorder) A device that records video onto a hard disk from one or more ceiling mounted video cameras. Part of a security system, the DVR typically supports 4, 8 or 16 separate camera channels. ). Roku designs sleek digital media products that maximize the digital home entertainment experience. Roku's award-winning products include Roku SoundBridge network music players and Roku BrightSign digital sign players. |
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