Thumbdrive-Sized Streaming Media Players Coming Soon

DeviceGuru writes "Roku is building its streaming media player technology into a thumbdrive-style device that will plug directly into a TV's HDMI port. The Roku Streaming Stick, to be priced in the $50-$100 range, will convert ordinary TVs into smart TVs, according to CEO Anthony Wood. One catch is that it will depend on the TV having at least one Mobile High-Definition Link (MHDL) compliant HDMI port. The new standard is not widely supported yet, with only Nokia, Samsung, Silicon Image, Sony, and Toshiba listed as members on the MHDL Consortium's web page."

I'll have the raspberry pi instead

[Anonymous Coward]

So.. rolling my own from a raspberry pi will still be the best option this year? That comes with a bog standard hdmi port.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/

HDMI is ok,

[klingens]

but what other connectors does it have? USB? Ethernet? WLAN? SD Card? If so, it's another Raspberry Pi, just a lot smaller. And if we are lucky it has an A8 and maybe more memory.
Root it and you have a nice little cheap home Linux server. I can dream, right?

Re:Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba?

[Penguinshit]

I have an LG "dumb" TV and love it. I have a 4-year old laptop hooked to the SVGA port for internet video, controlled from my primary system via tightVNC. Works great and I can use my choice of browser.