The Roku Channel on the Web
To start watching, launch your browser and head to therokuchannel.com and sign in with your existing Roku account if you have one, or create a new account. The interface is barebones, but you’ll have access to its catalog of movies, TV shows, and live news. You aren’t going to get the latest blockbuster movies and hit TV shows, but you will have unlimited access to award-winning classic comedies, dramas, thrillers, and more. For example, right now you can stream The Matrix trilogy, School of Rock, Wayne’s World 2, and classic TV shows like I Dream of Jeanie and Good Times.
The company also announced a “Feature Free” section that will start rolling out to its own devices which will point users to free content as well as other apps like Fox, Pluto TV, Crackle, ABC, and others. “In our on-going quest to make it easy for our customers to find great free entertainment, today we’re introducing “Featured Free,” a new home screen navigation that puts a spotlight on free content across the Roku platform,” notes Roku exec Rob Holmes. The new section will display on the top of the main menu and will be rolling out to all Roku owners in the U.S. over the coming weeks.
Since this is just rolling out today, you can expect a few hiccups. In my testing so far it works as you’d expect in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on Windows – but it doesn’t like it if you’re on a VPN. Although, it doesn’t want to work with Chrome on Android, but Firefox on Android is working. And Safari on iOS is working just fine. Also, keep in mind that you will need to disable an ad-blocker if you’re using one, otherwise nothing will play. Annoying as I was looking forward to using the facility Still – gotta thank them for providing the facility Free4 at least some people. However, I would have thought it reasonable to have the sign-up pages work in the UK, and with the basic windows IE browser (until MS get EDGE to match IE capabilities) Comment
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