Back in April, Roku refreshed its product line with a series of new streaming devices. Included in that refresh was a Roku Voice Remote Pro with a dedicated Apple TV+ button. Nearly three months later, Roku and Apple are apparently ready to publicize the deal they made. If you go to Roku’s website, you will …
There are more streaming services than any of us can hope to keep track of at this point, but that isn’t stopping Roku from joining in with original programming of its own. On Thursday, the company announced that 30 Roku Originals will debut on The Roku Channel on May 20th. Roku acquired the catalog of …
After failing to come to terms in private, Google and Roku started publicly airing their dirty laundry over YouTube TV’s continued support on Roku devices last week. Roku sent an email to its customers explaining that it was not willing to accept Google’s “unfair terms,” which included preferential treatment and special placement for its apps …
Roku removed YouTube TV from its channel store on Friday morning as a contract dispute between Google and the streaming device maker rages on. Roku initially threatened to take action earlier this week after claiming that Google was asking for preferential treatment and proposing other “unfair terms,” and now that the distribution agreement has expired, …
Roku sent an email to its customers on Monday to inform them that a dispute with Google could lead to the YouTube TV service being removed from Roku devices. According to Roku, Google is attempting to push “unfair terms” on the company that would negatively impact customers, and Google has threatened to take its streaming …
Some streaming services have fared better than others in recent years, but none have crashed and burned quite like Quibi. Conceptually, Quibi was bold and exciting, boiling episodes down to just 10 minutes or less, forcing viewers to watch on their phones, and adding the ability to flip between landscape and portrait mode to change …
Roku made a handful of big product announcements on Tuesday, some of which should make Apple users pretty happy — and all of which are geared toward streaming consumers across a range of use cases, from budget-conscious cord-cutters to people just diving into streaming as well as those who are pretty serious about their audio …
With the number of Roku users now surpassing 51 million users, the platform has become an attractive target for scammers looking to take advantage of unsuspecting users. One of the more popular scams you should keep an eye out for involves a fraudulent activation page designed to steal sensitive personal information or solicit payment. As …
Roku has acquired Quibi’s library and plans to bring over 75 of the defunct streaming service’s shows and documentaries to The Roku Channel in 2021. Quibi content will be free to stream on The Roku Channel, but it will feature ads. In addition to hosting over 75 shows and documentaries that premiered on Quibi, Roku …
Hulu announced that a series of older Roku devices that were released in 2012 or earlier will no longer be supported by its app starting on June 24th, 2020. If you own one of the devices mentioned, you’ll need to upgrade to watch Hulu. As frequently as we replace our phones, some of our other …
