Roku is making it easier to find and ticker its programming connected Google TV without jumping betwixt apps. Users tin soon hunt for contented from The Roku Channel — Roku’s escaped streaming app — straight connected Google TV, providing speedy entree to Roku’s room of implicit 80,000 movies and TV shows.
New class tabs are coming to the Google TV location surface that volition suggest recommended Roku content, alongside the quality to leap backmost into unfinished TV shows and movies from The Roku Channel. The integration volition besides bring much than 500 of Roku’s FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) channels to the “live” tab connected Google TV. According to Roku, these channels volition see escaped programming crossed “news, sports, cooking, DIY, music, and more.”
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The changes, which are rolling retired implicit “the coming weeks,” travel Roku bringing its streaming work to Android-powered TV devices, expanding subscription-free options for Google TV users. Competing against the increasing FAST TV market, alongside streaming platforms similar Netflix and Amazon Video, is already proving hard for accepted cablegram TV providers — thing that’s improbable to amended arsenic streaming services go much tightly integrated.