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Been awhile!
I recently bought a Roku Digital Video Player for an old tube TV in my bedroom. We’ve been using it for a month and I’ve been absolutely smitten with it. I couldn’t be happier with the purchase, and I plan to buy another one for our main HDTV in the living room.
Roku just so happens to offer a free SDK, so that you can develop your own “channels” and distribute them via their official Channel Store. Nice!
Developers have already created channels for a lot of popular websites, like Flickr, Pandora, blip.tv, Revision3, and break.com. After downloading and playing around with all of these channels, I thought that it would be cool to watch videos from Giant Bomb (and other Whiskey Media websites) on my Roku.
Whiskey Media just so happens to offer a free API, so that you can query a bunch of information from their databases, including all of their videos. Nice!
The Roku SDK and the Whiskey API seemed like a perfect match, so I quickly got to work on developing a channel. After nearly two weeks of nightly coding, I’m almost done with a 1.0 release candidate. You can see the current state of the Whiskey Media Roku Channel in the YouTube video below:
I still have a little polishing-up to do, but I plan to submit a build for Channel Store distribution soon.
This is awesome! Is it up on the Roku Store yet?
Yup! The Whiskey Media channel is now publicly available on the Roku Channel Store.