JSngry Posted January 14, 2014 Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 Lately, been digging the Pub-D-Hub, and have been having fun (sometimes not) trying to find a workaround for those "offbeat" movie/etc channels powered by AdRise (evil Evil EVIL!)...but the real treat has been all the cooking stations. In a lot of ways, this reminds me of the earlier days of local TV (or cable, for that matter), where all you needed was a concept and a time slot, and somebody to put it on the air at some hour. Now, all you need is a concept, a camera (or hell, just graphics software), a server, enough money to pay the fee(s?), and BAM - YOU GOT A TV STATION! Or radio. But TV is more fun to watch. Anybody else exploring Roku for something besides streaming obvious movies & any musics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Garrett Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 (edited) Pub-D-Hub is pretty cool, but what I've wound up using my Roku for the most is a combination of the Plex channel and the free Plex Media Server (https://plex.tv/downloads) running on my computer to queue up videos I run into while browsing the web for viewing later on my TV. There's a "Plex It!" button you can add to your browser's bookmarks toolbar that enables adding videos to your Plex queue with one click; although sometimes it fails to recognize videos embedded in webpages, I'd say it works great 90% of the time. I mainly started using Plex to be able to fling YouTube videos to my Roku, back when they'd briefly had an official YouTube channel before Google made them take it down. I understand that whatever disagreement Google had with Roku has recently been resolved and there's an official YouTube channel available once again. If you have a large personal media collection stored on hard drives, you can also add that content to your Plex queue just as easily and watch it via your Roku. There are also a crapload of private Roku channels out there that are accessible if you have the correct access codes. For starters: https://www.google.com/search?q=best+private+roku+channels Edited January 15, 2014 by Dave Garrett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjazz Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Austin City Limits is on the PBS channel. But they don't have that many full shows or keep them on very long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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