Roku doesn’t have a strong opinion about access to Clear...
Roku doesn’t have a strong opinion about access to Clear QAM programming, CEO Anthony Wood told us. Only about 20 percent of Roku customers don’t also buy a traditional pay-TV service, he said. There’s probably a group of price-conscious consumers…
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that would be interested in access to unencrypted basic tier programming, he said: “For us it’s not really core to our business.” Meanwhile, Roku is becoming the kind of open retail set-top box imagined when the CableCARD rules were adopted, Wood said. “The essence of what was wanted with CableCARD is starting to happen,” he said. As more pay-TV programmers and distributors deliver IP video to Roku boxes, it begins to resemble a cable box, he said. But in all of Roku’s conversations with distributors, there’s no interest in adding a CableCARD slot to the device, he said. “CableCARD has never come up in our conversations,” he said. “It’s about putting the Xfinities of the world as an app on our box."