Buried in Netflix’s earnings call Wednesday were some details about the company’s sale of its stake in set-top maker Roku to Menlo Ventures. Asked about the sale, CEO Reed Hastings said the company “booked a gain pre-tax of about $1.7 million—after tax that translates to $1.035 million” on the deal.…

Set-top maker Roku is still raising venture capital cash but it is already talking about an IPO. CEO Anthony Wood tells Bloomberg that the company may go public as soon as 2011. In the meantime, it is in the process of raising a $30 million round from investors, including existing…

Roku is cracking open access to its Internet set-top device to third-party content providers—adding 10 partners to its “Channel Store” this week—as the company takes a page from Apple’s iPhone App Store. The Roku player, launched in May 2008, initially provided access only to Netflix’s streaming-video service. Since then it…

Netflix-backed Roku is selling new versions of its set-top box. Earlier this year, the company offered a software upgrade that gave its standard definition player the ability to play HD content, as part of its deal to stream video from *Amazon* VOD; now users can get HD quality from the…

Pretty soon, it will be easier to write about which devices and services aren’t carrying MLB.TV. The latest to go major league is Roku, the $99 HD set-top box. Over the next few days, Roku users who also subscribe to MLB.TV Premium will be able to use the device to…

Set-top box-maker Roku has raised nearly $8.4 million in funding from Menlo Ventures as part of a fourth round. Contentinople first reported the raise, citing a regulatory filing. This follows a third round of funding from Menlo late last year (Another filing shows it totaled $10 million).

Roku, the digital media device player company and maker of the cute little Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Player by Roku, has closed its third round of funding, from Menlo Ventures. The amount was not disclosed. This round follows a second round investment from Netflix that closed in January of this year…Netflix…

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) announced its first direct-to-TV movie partnership with LG Electronics (SEO: 066570) early this year, but was short on details then. Since then, it launched through a low-cost Roku box. Earlier this month it also announced the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) XBox360 streaming deal. And now, it has announced…

The Roku-Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) movie delivery box, which went out of stock soon after it was launched, has apparently sold close to 100K units since its launch in May, a seemingly high number considering its limited application and selection of Netflix movies for now..that number comes from Dan Rayburn on…

After its Roku box integration, which received critical acclaim for ease of use, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is continuing on its digital service integration within others: it has just announced a deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), where Xbox 360 will be able to stream thousands (well 10K, compared to its DVD…

So funny this: Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) decides to build a streaming movie box for TV viewing sometime last year, and last spring hires Anthony Wood, the founder of ReplayTV and Roku box. Then, as is customary with the company by now, changes its mind late last year…Wood decides to leave…