Hiring Developer for Hotel IPTV System
I am working on an IPTV system to distribute live satellite TV in a 100 room hotel with Roku as the set-top-box. My current plan involves connecting the satellite receivers to a HDMI or component c...
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"RokuPatrick" wrote:
For a variety of reasons, we don't recommend Roku for that type of application. Among the reasons:
- Player/account management, we've neither designed for, nor tested having that many boxes on a single account
- Channels are installed on a per account basis. Removing a channel from one Roku player on an account will remove it from all
- Content rights. Make sure that any channels you have installed have rights for use in that environment
- on the EPG side, be aware of the patent situation around them (specifically grids).
- It is possible to install channels without a Roku.com account. That's how Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and other "primary" channels get there in the first place. I am hoping that Roku is willing to let us know how to do that. If not, there is always the option of setting up 10 Roku.com accounts.
- We only intend to install our channel (besides the built-in channels), which we obviously have the rights to use in any environment we wish
- The hotel is located in a jurisdiction that does not recognize software patents so patents related to EPG do not present a problem