Roku is best known for its streaming boxes and its sticks, but it also offers free TV entertainment on its Roku channel, including live linear television and some original films, and you don’t need to have the Roku equipment – or a Roku TV – to watch it. We will show you all the ways in which you can enjoy the premium.
You can access the Roku channel via a web browser or via Roku mobile applications for Android and iOS. To watch on an intelligent television or another brand of streaming device (an Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, Samsung Smart TV), you will have to install the Roku Channel application from the app for this device.
Unfortunately, Roku has no version of the Roku Channel application for LG Smart TVS or the Apple TV Streamer. But we will show you circumvention solutions for these platforms later.
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You do not need a streaming or television device powered by Roku to watch free entertainment on the Roku channel; In fact, you don’t need a multimedia streamer at all. Just point your web browser to therokuchannel.com and choose what you want to look at.
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What is available on the Roku channel?
The Roku channel offers a wide range of fast channels, films and television series (free financial televisions), as well as live linear television (movies and programs are broadcast on a fixed schedule – as in the good old days of television broadcast – but you can pass when you wish).
You will find part of this same content on other fast services, such as Pluto and Tubi, but Roku always has a selection of popular films and exclusive shows to the Roku channel. Until now, Roku’s deepest original project is the Emmy Emmy winner Weird: The story of Al YankovicWith Daniel Radcliffe as a satirical singer.
Roku offers a small amount of its own original programming, including Weird: the story of Al Yankovic, With Daniel Radcliffe.
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Other original programs include The big American cooking show,, Honest renovationsAnd Visionaries: the Arch project With Keanu Reeves. It is a tiny catalog in relation to what is streaming on Max or Netflix, but you can watch all these programs for free (with ads).
Roku has also done hunting business, picking up worthy projects that other streaming services have dropped. This includes the entire Quibi library, the video service of “fast bites” failed that the Hollywood magnate Jeffrey Katzenberg (former Disney Director of DreamWorks), designed for phones.
Roku has saved an entire library from Quibi’s shows as The hard With Kevin Hart, Most dangerous gameA Punk’d Revival with luck The Rapper, the Reno 911! Revival, and Bill Burr has an immoral compass. Roku also picked up The Spiderwick Chronicles TV Disney +series.
Roku has acquired the entire Quibi library of short films and the offer for free on the Roku channel.
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Since the Roku canal was designed as a center for Roku streaming devices, the emphasis is on attraction users other Streaming services, such as Prime Video, Peacock, MGM + and Paramount +. If you are not familiar with the catalogs of these streaming services, you can be sent to their applications or websites when you click on a title.
If you are interested in subscribing to these services, it is preferable to register them directly, so that your customer relationship is with the service provider and not an intermediary.
How to use a browser to watch the Roku canal
First, point your browser to therokuchannel.com. You will see a large grid with miniature images of films and television shows offered. At the risk of contradicting everything I said about this entertainment being free and supported by advertising; Well, part – a little –No. But the Roku Channel user interface facilitates the difference in difference. OKU’s browser view facilitates the identification of the free content with the announcements and the one that requires a subscription to one service or another. Each section includes tiles that slide to the left or right with arrows on each side of the screen, as is navigation on Netflix.
You will have to scroll three times down to see the entire user interface when visualizing the Roku channel in a web browser on a iPhone.
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What you can’t Doing is adjusting the view of the page to hide the premium subscription content. This makes sense – for Roku, at least – because part of the business model of the company revolves around you subscribing to external services from its site, for which Roku collects a commission. But that would be good if users could hide the subscription options that they do not plan to use.
A navigation tab allows a spectator to focus on categories such as Roku Originals, Films, Series, Comedy, Drama, Western and Dozens others. You can click on a button + next to the description of a program to add it to a saved tab.
The live TV tab shows what is streaming now with the same interface of sliding tiles as the rest of the Roku chain site uses. It is a bit counter-intuitive for all those who grew up with the traditional interface of the cable guide grid that Pluto and Tubi use for their live television offers.
How to use the Roku Channel mobile application
The Roku canal lives inside the Roku application for iOS and Android. This application is mainly designed to act as a remote control for a Roku device or a television powered by Roku, you will therefore have to get used to bypassing this capacity if you mainly use the application to simply look at the Roku channel.
There is no Roku Channel application for the Apple TV streaming box, but you can read the service on your phone and launch it in the connected box your large screen TV via Apple Airplay.
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For example, I use an Apple TV streamer with a TCL TV that is that Roku software is integrated. I don’t use Roku software on television, but I have a Roku account. Press the bad screen icon and the Roku interface embarks on the TV screen. There is no way to deactivate or eliminate icons for applications you may have installed on a Roku or TV device.
The mobile application uses the same interface of sliding tiles as the web version, but it is much more difficult to use on a small screen. There is no way to get an overview of what is live streaming, and it is impossible to surface a list of original Roku if you are looking to focus on films and exclusive chain shows.
If you have an Apple TV, you can watch the Roku channel on your mirror TV screen. There is no support for Airplay. This means that you will not have access to something other than streaming video when you watch.
What is the best way to look at the Roku channel?
If you have a streaming or television device on Google, Amazon Fire or Roku, download the Roku Channel app for your respective device, because it is the easiest way to watch the service, because you can use a remote control. If you don’t do it Having one of these devices, the easiest way to look at the Roku channel is on a web browser on a computer or tablet.
If you are looking to use your mobile device and want to have access to the full film and emission catalog, your best bet is to connect via a web browser and add what you want to your backup list. This content will then be easily accessible on the mobile application.
Free streaming has become a major player in home entertainment. If you are ready to endure a few advertisements (and sometimes the same advertisements playing during Each break), there are a wide variety of classic and relatively new films and shows available on the Roku channel – and other fast services – to spend time.
