Filed under: Video. , Hardware. , Web services. If you've ever considered buying a Roku. , the set-top streaming video box for your TV, you've got at least 10 new reasons today. Roku just launched its Channel Store. , featuring 10 free content sources. You may have heard of some of them before: Flickr and Facebook. Photos are available, as well as music from Pandora. , and web shows from heavy hitters like Revision3. and Leo Laporte's TWiT.TV. On the paid side of things, Roku has already partnered with sites like Netflix, Amazon Video and MLB.com. Will all this free content sell more Roku boxes? I'm not necessarily convinced that people will be willing to spend the money - please pardon the worn-out phrase I'm about to drop, here -- "in this economy," to get TV access to content they can already see for free on their computers. Web show creators might be more excited than consumers about the Channel Store, in fact, because they'll soon be able to create their own channels. One
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