Digital Home Thoughts: Rock On With a Roku Update!

"If you're an owner of one of the early Roku XR units and have been left on the 720p bench while the newer models step up to full HD, it's time to get in the game. Roku has released a firmware update (2.9-b1509) that unleashes the necessary pixels on the XR, also including some niceties for those models that can already do 1080p."

It is really encouraging to see a company committed to its products and provide updates. While I would not make it a requirement for a company to continue supporting their product with updates for decades, with the changes that happen in the online media streaming world, it is almost a necessity that stand-alone players receive updates. I would argue that many of us are very used to updates, and almost come to expect, if not demand them. There is not a week that goes by where some program I use, from Firefox to Notepad++ to VLC pops up and tells me that an update is available. Across the several computers I have, it can be like a little kid nagging me if I am done yet. At least with this update some new and fancy features, or at least some performance improvements are provided.