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Roku, Clearleap bringing cable VOD to media streamers

– June 24, 2010Posted in: Roku, video on demand, vod

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We remember when Roku’s streamer was a simple Netflix box with potential, but now the company is teaming up with Clearleap (check after the break for a NewTeeVee interview with CEO Braxton Jarrat to offer it to cable companies as a combo unit that can also serve up their premium video on-demand content. No word yet on any MSOs stepping up to offer their VOD via the device, but Clearleap says it will be in “multiple trials” over the next few months and expects a limited commercial deployment by the end of this year. So far, “over the top” services and traditional cable VOD haven’t lived together in any meaningful way, who wants to place odds this partnership gets the ball rolling?

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