You can set a Roku PIN to authorize purchases and download channels on your Roku player, as well as enable parental controls on The Roku Channel.

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Wall Street may not be wholly convinced it should be a set manufacturer, but Roku is further expanding its lineup of branded televisions in a move it believes brings more choices to savvy consumers.

Roku, which pretty much invented the cheap, easy-to-use Internet TV streaming box, is the sort of scrappy startup which you might have assumed would get steamrolled by mammoth competitors early on.

Roku says Google's anti-competitive demands may result in YouTube TV disappearing from its streaming devices. Google says those claims are baseless. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media reporter, ...