The Roku channel, Roku’s free offering found on its players and TV’s as well as Samsung Smart TV’s, will be offering new ways to see sports and entertainment news and information. The sports offerings are more along the lines of lifestyle channels than they are sports events. No the Roku channel will not offer free feeds…
September 8, 2018 we lost a great actor. The first movie that I saw Burt Reynolds in was the classic “Smokey and the Bandit” watching it on HBO at my aunt and uncles house on their NASA sized satellite antenna in 1978. It was a huge event where my Aunt and Uncle invited my Mom,…
When Star Wars was first released in 1977 the populatity of the Space Opera was waning. The genre, which started with the pulp magazines and books of the 1920’s and 30’s, is built around storylines that involve traveling through space and aliens. Before Luke Skywalker met Obiwan, books by Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury captured the imagination of…
When Roku first announced their branded Roku channel the idea of the Roku Channel becoming the command center for the device may well have been in the works. As it was the Roku channel debuted as a way to see movies and TV shows that were available on multiple Roku partner channels besides the big guns like…
Recently, CBS published an article about how Roku has refused to remove NRA TV from its streaming platform despite pressure from organizations like Media Matters to do so. I’ll openly admit that there are some businesses that I won’t patronize. Why? Because they conflict with my views or beliefs. But I have always deemed using…
