The Roku channel is free and you do not need a Roku device to look at

Roku is the best known for its streaming boxes and sticks, but also offers free TV entertainment on his Roku channel, including Live -Linear TV and some original films, and you don't have to watch Roku hardware -or a Roku TV. We show you all the ways you can enjoy the bounty.

You can access the Roku channel via a web browser or via the ROKU mobile apps for Android and iOS. To look at the ROKU channel from the app store on a smart TV or other streaming device (an Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, Samsung Smart TV), you must install the Roku channel app from the App Store.

Unfortunately, Roku has no version of the Roku channel -app for LG Smart TVs or the Apple TV Streamer. But later we will show you some problems for these platforms.

If you Do I want a Roku streamer, we will help you find the right one.

What is there on the Roku channel?

The ROKU channel offers a wide range of fast (free advertising-supported TV channels), films and television series that you can watch if necessary, as well as linear live linear TV (films and shows are streamed according to a fixed schedule in the good old days of the Broadcast television, but if you want whenever you want).

You can find some of these same content on other fast services such as Pluto and Tubi, but Roku always has a selection of popular films and shows that are exclusive to the Roku channel. Roku of the most profiled original project so far is the Emmy award winner Strange: The Al Yankovic storywith Daniel Radcliffe as a satirical singer.

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Other original shows include The big American baking showPresent Honest renovation workAnd Visionaire: the bow project With Keanu Reeves. It is a tiny catalog compared to what is streamed on Max or Netflix, but you can see all of these shows free of charge (with displays).

Roku also went a bargain hunt and picked up worthy projects that have dropped other streaming services. These include the entire quibi library, the failed short form video service “Quick Bites”, the Hollywood Mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg (former managing director of Disney and co-founder of Dreamworks) for telephones (former managing director of Disney and co-founder of Dreamworks).

Roku saved an entire library of quibi shows like how Die hard With Kevin Hart, Most dangerous gameA Punk'd Resuscitation with chance The Rapper, who Reno 911! Resuscitation and Bill Burr presents an immoral compass. Roku also took off The Spiderwick Chronicles TV Series from Disney+.

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Since the Roku channel was designed as a turntable for Roku -Streaming devices other Streaming services such as Prime Video, Peacock, MGM+and Paramount+. If you are not familiar with the catalogs of these streaming services, you may be directed to your apps or websites when you click on a title.

If you want to subscribe to these services, it is best to register directly for you so that your customer relationship with the service provider and not with an appearance.

How to use a browser to watch the Roku channel

First show your browser on Therokuchannel.com. You will see a large network with miniature pictures of the films and television programs. At the risk of contradicting everything I said about this conversation, which is supported free and notification; Well, some of it – a little of it –not. However, the user interface of Roku Channel users makes it easy to recognize the difference. Roku's browser view makes it easier to identify which content is free of charge with ads and which requires a subscription for one or the other service. Each section has tiles that slide to the left or right with arrows on each side of the screen, similar to the navigation on Netflix.

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What you tip To adapt the view of the page to hide the Premium subscription content. This makes sense – at least for Roku – because part of the company's business model is about it, which subscribes to external services within his website, for which Roku collects a commission. But it would be nice if users could hide the subscription options that they don't want to use.

A tab “Coatstormers” enables a viewer to concentrate on categories such as Roku originals, films, series, comedy, drama, western and dozens of others. In addition to the description of a program, you can click a button + + to add a stored tab.

On the LIVE -TV tab, streaming shows with the same sliding -based interface that the rest of the Roku channel uses. For everyone who grew up with the traditional cable guide, the Pluto and Tubi use for their live TV offers.

How to use the Roku Channel Mobile app

The Roku channel lives in the Roku -app for iOS and Android. This app is primarily used as a remote control for a ROKU device or a Roku-driven television.

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For example, I use an Apple TV streamer with a TCL television in which the Roku software is integrated. I don't use the Roku software on TV, but I have a Roku account. Press the wrong symbol on the screen and the Roku interface starts on the television screen. There is no way to switch off or remove the symbols for apps that you may have installed on a ROKU device or television.

The mobile app uses the same slide tile interface as the web version, but is much more difficult to use on a smaller screen. There is no way to get an overview of what streams live, and it is impossible to determine a list of Roku originals if they concentrate on films and show exclusively for the channel.

If you have an Apple TV, you can view the Roku channel on your television screen via reflection. There is no support for AirPlay. This means that when viewing you have no access to anything other than streaming video.

What is the best way to see the Roku channel?

If you have a Google, Amazon Fire or Roku streaming device or television, download the Roku channel app for your respective device, as this is the easiest way to look at the service because you can use a remote control. If you not If you have one of these devices, the easiest way to watch the Roku channel is on a computer or tablet in a web browser.

If you want to use your mobile device and want to access the complete catalog of films and shows, it is best to register via a web browser and add what you want to your storage list. This content will then simply access the mobile app.

Free streaming has become an important player in Home Entertainment. If you are ready to find a few commercials (and sometimes the same commercials during the Every single advertising break) There are a variety of classic and relatively new films and shows in the Roku channel -and other fast services -to spend time.