In the mid Nineties, while he was looking at a Fry?s ad, Anthony Wood invented the personal video recorder (PVR). From this epiphany, Wood founded ReplayTV in 1997, a PVR company which, for a short while, gave TiVO a run for its money. But Wood not only invented the PVR, he also helped kill it. In 2002, after leaving ReplayTV, Wood founded Roku, a self-styled ?cable killer? hardware company which provides a box for accessing on-demand video. Almost ten years after founding Roku, Wood really is starting to scare the traditional cable industry. He?s already sold a million Roku boxes and streamed a billion minutes of content from Roku devices. And this year, Wood expects to sell a million and a half boxes, thus making Roku, Wood says, the 10th largest cable company in the US. Video ahead.
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