I&#x27;m not krisdol, but I presume the &quot;empty plastic boxes&quot; is a reference to the fact that the amount of hardware necessary to stream video is now miniscule. My Roku is the size it is not because it needs to be that big to hold components, but so that it looks substantial to consumers and doesn&#x27;t get lost in a ball of cables.<p>And interop for me would mean that instead of N proprietary platforms that must be targeted separately by software&#x2F;content makers, there would be one universal platform with different manufacturers. The Amazon app on Roku, for example, is pretty weak; I presume it&#x27;s much better with an actual Amazon device. And YouTube wasn&#x27;t available on Roku for a number of years, even though you could get it on other devices, I presume because Google was trying to make their own device play with Google TV.