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Roku 3 tops Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Chromecast in streaming player shootout

If you don't have an Internet-connected TV, or the one you have isn't able to access some services you'd like to use, you may be considering a stand-alone streaming media player. That's no surprise; market research firm Parks Associates forecasts that by 2015, one-quarter of all U.S. households will own one of these devices.

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