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Dec 14th, 2011 by flingsoft
Today we are super excited to announce the availability of Gary Vaynerchuk’s incredible daily wine show, Daily Grape, for the Roku. The successor to Wine Library TV, Daily Grape provides over 80 episodes of reviews and insight with its always amazing. We have always been huge fans and while he is no longer broadcasting (we wish he was), we have teamed up with VaynerMedia to make sure the content is still accessible to everyone.
The channel is free for everyone, so if you have a Roku then make sure you check it out!
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Oct 18th, 2011 by flingsoft
It is with great pleasure that we introduce another great new Roku channel that was developed in conjunction with our friends at Delicious TV. Totally Vegetarian with Toni Fiore brings deceptively delicious vegetarian meals onto your Roku device and makes it simple for everyone to produce amazing food in their own kitchen.
We are also huge fans of Toni’s mantra - “Buy Locally, Eat Seasonally, Buy Organic, Use Your Intuition, Everything In Moderation”. It is a show for people who love to eat and for those that want to healthier.
“Totally Vegetarian” is available now on the Roku Channel Store (must be logged in) for a low monthly subscription of only $1.99 a month. You get access to 3 full seasons and tons of great recipes.
Hope everyone enjoys the channel!
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Sep 20th, 2011 by flingsoft
We are very pleased to announce the release of “Travel With Kids” on the Roku. “Travel With Kids” is an award-winning family travel show that shows parents how they can travel the world with the little ones without breaking the bank or losing their minds. Its also great for the kids as they can experience what its like to travel and see all the great things there are to experience out there. From Europe to South America to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, they have traveled around the world and bring you some amazing creative ideas and stories.
Using Fling Soft’s video architecture we were able to rapidly deploy an entire custom application within a minimal timeframe for the “Travel With Kids” team and we are really excited about the result. As a father of two little ones myself and an avid traveler, I can personally say I am super excited about bringing this to market and can’t wait for people to check it out.
“Travel With Kids” has won numerous awards including multiple Tellys, a KidsFirst! award, Dove approval, and iParenting Media Award and many more. You can find out more on their website, check out their blog, or find them on Facebook.
“Travel With Kids” is available now on the Roku Channel Store (must be logged in) for a one-time fee of $4.99. You get access to all 4 seasons and new seasons as they become available.
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Aug 15th, 2011 by flingsoft
We are very pleased to announce that our newest app, Classic Westerns, is now available across multiple devices including the iPhone and iPad. Movie Vault users have been asking us for a while to come up with inexpensive pre-sorted versions and everyone loved our last genre specific version, House of Horrors, so we wanted to add to the collection. With this release, we expose a great selection of classic films featuring incredible western actors like John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Tim McCoy, Gene Autry and more!
You can install it now on:
- iPhone ($.99)
- iPad ($1.99)
- Android ($.99)
- Roku ($1.99)
- Windows Phone 7 ($.99) Coming Soon, in review now!!
We hope you enjoy and can’t wait for our upcoming releases!
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Mar 18th, 2011 by flingsoft
As we wait for the imminent release of Movie Vault 1.2 on the iPhone and 1.3 on the iPad (which both add AirPlay!!), I thought I would offer up some information on the devices and testing we do for the various applications. We are also avidly working on Android, OS X, and Windows Phone builds which should be showing their faces very soon!
Most development teams do not have access to a wide array of devices, so they are forced to depend on the simulators that are included with the SDKs or great third party services like DeviceAnywhere. While most of these are really good ways of testing (and we use them in addition to the devices), we do notice that you can miss a lot of if you rely of them solely. So we have a nice stable of devices thanks to our partners and we are growing it rapidly. Here’s a shot of some of them:
We test on the following for iOS:
- iPhone 4
- iPhone 3GS
- iPhone 3G
- iPhone Classic
- iPad
- iPad 2 (coming soon, still in line!)
For Android, we test on:
- Motorola Droid 2
- Motorola Cliq
- Motorola Backflip
- Adding more soon!
For Windows Phone 7 we test on:
- Samsung Focus
- HTC coming soon!
For IP TV boxes, we test on:
Some issues:
To start, it is very difficult to test memory leaks and memory related crashes through only the simulator. Whatever the reason is, the simulators seem to not exhibit similar leak behaviors. I can run an app for hours in the simulator and then put it on the device and kill it in 10 seconds.
Next, UI interaction… you know the jumpiness/smoothness factor. Because the simulator takes into account system processing power things always feel crisp. Not so on the device and especially when you go between versions (iPhone 3G to 3Gs to 4 for example). DeviceAnywhere also has issues here because it is network based so sometimes it can feel jumpier than it might actually be. Two heavy extremes.
Video and this is obviously where we want to shine. We would never use a hosted service to test this and the simulator in most cases can’t even run video well. We can test our streams outside of the app for general functionality, but we always like to try them on device to make sure it looks the best it can given our original source.
General usability is the best use of these tools and where they accelerate development. If you want to see how things look and how interaction functions, then they can drastically speed things up.
I won’t delve into the actual QA process, but we are very engineering oriented so we go through QA cycles, bug review, fixes, re-test, etc, etc. I can always talk to our process here in detail as well if anyone is really truly interested. I hope everyone enjoyed this and we always welcome comments and questions. Always happy to help and share our experiences.
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Jan 21st, 2011 by flingsoft
We are pleased to announce that Movie Vault is now available on Roku. This is something that has been in the works for a while and before we go into whats including and whats coming, I wanted to give a little personal insight on this lovely little box.
I have personally owned a Roku since almost day one. All it really was in the beginning was a way to stream Netflix content and soon took a back-burner to the Xbox, PS3, Wii, and every other device that offered Netflix content as well. Over the last year, Roku has come on strong with a new focus on embracing developers, opening a true “store” system, and releasing three new models. Now the little box that felt like it was struggling has emerged as what I think is probably the best reason to cut cable on the market. With a low price point and super simple interface it is probably the most attractive internet TV box out there.
So what’s included…
There are over one thousand movies in the library all available at no additional cost to you. They range from really obscure classics to great B horror flicks. Check out some great films from John Wayne, Jack Nicholson, Vincent Price, and many others. All the content features original cover art and full listings of Actors, Directors, and Plots. Here is a sample screenshot of the video listing.
And what’s coming…
We are quickly going to be adding a Search functionality to the channel and also moving to streaming to accelerate playback. Let us know if you have any ideas for new features. We will also try and keep content updated as we find new/great stuff.
So go get your classic movie fix for only $3.99 on your Roku device from the Channel Store now!! And make sure you give us a 5 star rating when you find you love it!!
Update 1/30/2011 - Note that we launched the app at a $1.99 monthly subscription, but due to customer feedback we decided to switch to a one-time purchase model on Thursday 1/27. It seems like most customers didn’t like the idea of automatically getting billed every month. Thanks for all the feedback!
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