We love the idea of the Roku Video Player, formerly the Roku Netflix Player. We’ve been talking about it from early on, and have used one, although we admit to not owning one(not yet, at least).

Today, Roku started releasing a major update for the box. It includes ten new content channels:  Pandora, Facebook Photos, Revision3, Mediafly, TWiT, blip.tv, Flickr, FrameChannel, Motionbox and MobileTribe.

Now, there are some disappointments there. These are good sites, but nothing show stopping, like Hulu, or even Youtube. And the fact they haven’t incorporated streaming from your own home computer is equally disappointing.

The Roku Channel Store, the platform under which these new channels were launched, hopes to become a platform for future development. We’d love to see that.

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