{"id":2846,"date":"2016-04-09T21:43:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2021-10-08T08:33:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T08:33:32","slug":"streaming-tv-at-home-roku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/streaming-tv-at-home-roku\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming TV at home (ROKU)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a ROKU stick, it&#8217;s pretty easy to start and make to work. It&#8217;s not clear from the web site, but you must open an account on their web site, agree their terms and conditions and lodge payment details with them; for buying extra I assume.\u00a0 The BBC, ITV, All 4 and Demand 5 are free, there is a free NOW TV channel and access to all the big SVoD suppliers. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I live in Hampshire at the other end of a Super Broadband Plus line. It seemed to work earlier tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Techradar review <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180129052903\/http:\/\/www.techradar.com:80\/news\/television\/now-tv-vs-sky-tv-which-is-best-for-you--1217997\">Now TV vs Sky here&#8230;<\/a>. Looks like it can&#8217;t leverage a sky go contract.<\/p>\n<p>The ROKU support page is here.<\/p>\n<p>This is a more successful experience than the Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a ROKU stick, it&#8217;s pretty easy to start and make to work. It&#8217;s not clear from the web site, but you must open an account on their web site, agree their terms and conditions and lodge payment details with them; for buying extra I assume.\u00a0 The BBC, ITV, All 4 and Demand 5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[311,1005,1004,911,181],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-home-entertainment","tag-roku","tag-streaming-tv","tag-technology","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/roku-stickcontrol-w650.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6030,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/6030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}