"SkipFire" wrote:
I also tried contacting them, but since I did not get a timely response (2 weeks), the application I was going to be developing for work is instead going to be built on Boxee. 😞 I prefer Roku, but my boss said because of the problem with Dishworld not responding in a timely fashion we can't use Roku, too bad, it would have been over 10,000 units just for the first location we were going to deploy to. We have our own content, only available in our facility, but we provide it in many languages. They were a bit concerned about possibly using Roku to begin with as soon as they saw the requirement of needing DishWorld's approval to host our own multi-lingual content, I still don't understand how it benefits anyone to have someone else give me approval to publish my own content.
Before anyone even suggest just side-loading the channels, that is just not an option with as many units as we would have (10,000 is just the first of currently 14 rollouts we would be looking at), plus we wouldn't know if the channel is in use at the time. We would update the channel in the store and just know that it would go out to all the Roku's within a day.
At over three times the price, the number of units you're talking about would cost an
additional $1,000,000 to switch to Boxee (at a discount), in just the first rollout. Seems like an awfully dramatic financial decision to make after only two weeks... I think I'd be making a few more phone calls and sending a few more emails first..
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