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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Ah, I see. So you would subscribe to these channels and then have access to them? See over here it's not really done that way. Our main digital channels come through Sky, the largest digital service, and via their Sky box through the TV, though you can also hook up via the Internet. It's probably just me, but I've never had any experience at all with subscribing to internet TV channels, which is why I was asking about Netflix: it's something totally new to me.
Thanks for the info though Jansz: clears it up a bit now. For a moment I thought this Roku thing came with tiny people inside who acted out episodes of your favourite shows on demand...  |
I don't think I've explained it well. They're not really channels in the TV sense of the term. They're more like apps on a smartphone. You click on the Amazon one, for example, and you can go rent or buy videos from Amazon. You go to the Netflix one, and if you're a Netflix subscriber, you can watch the movies and TV shows they have available in their streaming library. You go to the break.com one and you can watch dumb home videos of people falling down or getting hit in the balls. All the Roku is on a fundamental level is a way of connecting to the internet through your TV, but one that conveniently filters things so that you're only perusing streaming content.