Roku
"Although the information we release has been verified and shown to work to the best our knowledge, we cant be held accountable for bricked devices or roots gone wrong."
This page will be dedicated to a general overview of the Roku OS, descriptions, and information related to the Roku Streaming Player.
Purchase
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GPL
Roku maintains a fairly accurate (but far from perfect) repository of GPL code which can be found at [roku.com/opensource].
Secret Screens
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Versions
Wikipedia contains an excellent version table comparing all the different versions of ROKU devices currently on the market. This table can be found at [Wikipedia: Roku]
Frist generation
Roku DVP (N1000), Roku SD (N1050), Roku HD (N1100), Roku HD-XR (N1101), Roku HD (2000), Roku XD (2050), and Roku XDS (2100) are the first generation of ROKU devices contained a PNX8935 MIPS SoC
Roku 2 HD, Roku 2 XD, Roku 2 XS, Roku LT and BSkyB NowTV
The second generation of ROKU devices contained the Broadcom 2835 ARM SoC which is identical to the Raspberry PI.
Roku LT (2700) Roku 1 (2710) Roku 2 (2720) Roku 3 (4200)
Third generation Roku devices contained the BCM7218 SoC. ROKU 3 contained the BCM11130 SoC.