How to Add a Private Channel to Roku 3

Brad · January 27, 2014, 07:43:14 PM

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/add-private-channel-roku-3,news-18248.html#xtor=RSS-980

I can remember adding an Archive.org channel to Roku long ago.

rcjordan · January 27, 2014, 08:03:37 PM

I've seen a couple of entertainment-tech articles recently that gave the roku 3 "best box out there" kudos. I own all of the top contenders -roku 1/2/3, apple tv, and chromecast. It's my understanding that streaming uses a merged audio and video format and that's why apple tv can't split the audio off and send it to your bluetooth headset. That was a big disappointment for me, as that was the reason I bought the thing. Then R3 made a brilliant move; just put a headphone jack in the remote. Problem solved.

littleman · January 27, 2014, 08:56:26 PM

NoWhere TV is a good private channel worth having. It is really like having another 100 channels all in one. It has Archive.org in it, as well as a lot of streaming news/entertainment sites.
http://thenowhereman.com/roku/

rcjordan · January 28, 2014, 12:21:20 AM

you got a news site that streams today's news, not last night's news? last louise looked, they were all loops of yesterday's broadcasts being recycled on the web.

littleman · January 28, 2014, 03:54:02 PM

That plugin I mentioned has dozens of local news sites. Some of them are live stream -- so they are live when they are on for local broadcasts. I believe CNN International, Al Jazeera & Blumberg have live feeds and I think that channel I mentioned plugs those in automatically.

Brad · January 28, 2014, 06:00:30 PM

>NowhereTV

Thanks for the tip littleman! I just added that and it is a fantastic channel and I'm a little stunned by how much there is. The live international news channels are my favorites.

Brad · January 29, 2014, 02:24:17 PM

>nowheretv

I'm watching a live stream of BBC International. I didn't even get this when I was paying premium cable prices to get BBC America, there I got an excellent evening news hour but that can't compete with a live stream.

littleman · January 29, 2014, 03:57:25 PM

Yeah, calling it just a channel doesn't do it justice. It is really a way to get a massive amount of streaming and archived shows available on the web onto your Roku. The only other channel/service that I know about that can do something similar is running PLEX on your PC and then using the PLEX channels -- which can do some pretty cool things too. Through plex there is a reddit-video channel that is hackable so that you can add videos from your favorite sub-reddit. I've got mine pointing to /r/documentories /r/lectures and /r/fullmoviesonyoutube.