page_title: Roku, Inc.
section_title: Roku Streaming Player
hierarchical_section_title: Roku, Inc. / Roku Streaming Player
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Roku XDS player with remote.
context_page_description: Roku, Inc. is an American publicly traded company based in San Jose, California that manufactures a variety of digital media players for video streaming. Roku has an advertising business and also licenses its hardware and software to other companies.
context_section_description: Roku Streaming Players are set-top boxes for the delivery of over-the-top content. Content is provided by Roku partners, identified using the "channel" vernacular. Each separate channel supports content from one partner, although 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.
  Roku devices support both on-demand content and live streaming. For live TV streams, Roku supports Apple HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) adaptive streaming technology. Both free and paid "channels" such as Amazon Video, Hulu, Netflix, and others are available, as are some games. Roku also received support for Apple TV+ (along with iTunes Store-purchased content) via a channel upon its November 2019 launch.
  Roku Streaming Players are open-platform devices with a freely available SDK that enables anyone to create new channels. The channels are written in a Roku-specific language called BrightScript, a scripting language the company calls "similar to Visual Basic".
caption: The XD/S has HDMI and component output for high-definition video on new and older televisions.
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