I'm a big fan of Roku and have one of their latest models (all of 3 x 3 x 1 inch) next to our main TV in the house. I'm considering adding them to every TV in the house eventually. I haven't dropped cable entirely yet because of other family members. I now get almost all of my TV save for some live sports (Australian football!) via the Roku and my partner is 50/50.
In addition to Livestation, there are several other excellent sources (apps) of non US TV channels/programming including NowhereTV, LinkTV, BBC World News, Acorn TV, ABC (Australia). CBC, RT America, NHK, Euronews on Demand, etc. Some are totally free; others have pay options. Some give you live feeds; others are on demand clips. For US channels there is USTVNow (register via proxy server!), tv.com, and a few others. News clips and feeds on Roku Newscaster, Newslook, Headlines by blinkx, Fox, etc. All the major music services (TuneIn, Pandora, MP3tunes / Dar.fm, Slacker, Rdio, etc. have apps as well as movie and TV sources you would expect like Netflix, Amazon Plus, Hulu Plus, Crackle, etc. The "secret" to Roku is that in addition to the channels in the official channel store, there are many "private" channels you can find the necessary codes for around the net. These were intended to allow users to create limited access feeds (maybe your corporate stuff like Walmart TV) or educational feeds. It has blossomed into an array of both legal (and not so legal) feeds of almost anything you can access over the web or redirect over the web. The quality varies greatly but if you want BBC World News or Al Jazeera or Columbian soccer you can get it. -- -Rob de Santos -----Original Message----- From: Richard Cuff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:53 AM To: [email protected]; Internet radio discussion Cc: Sandy Finlayson Subject: Re: [Internetradio] Saving Auntie: Meet the BBC's new boss : CJR An interesting aspect to this is the world of Internet TV and the push towards bypassing the Comcasts / Time Warners of the world for specific channels. For example, my 25-year old niece & her husband only have Google TV as their television platform...they have high-speed Internet from a cable provider but they do not subscribe to a TV channel package. If they want live local TV I presume they use an over-the-air antenna. If your TV isn't directly Internet-capable consider something a Roku box - roughly $70 - looks like the best solution out there. Livestation.com offers the "Globetrotter" package including Al Jazeera English, BBC World News, Euronews, and Sky News International. I don't know if Livestation is part of Roku's access or not. Cost is $5 per month and a free one-week trial is available. http://www.livestation.com/en/bbc-world And you can watch Livestation offerings via your Roku box - http://www.rokuguide.com/channels/livestation RC On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Rob de Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > Sarcasm aside, I think the feeling is that you get all you want from CNN, etc. > _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
