Hey all;
There was a lot of "heat" on the Roku technical staff after they offered YouTube on the Roku-3 last year but not available on the earlier generation ones and to get it working/supported on the these. Well (yeah I know this may be old information) as of 4/22/2014 the channel now works with the Roku 1 and 2's. I played around with it this morning on my Roku -2 XD-HD unit and it works pretty swell (IMHO). To me this is the single best advancement for the product. It's pretty simple to "pair" the PC/tablet/etc device to be the server to the TV/Roku device. It's great to be finally able to see folks' HD videos on the 46" big screen and with big sound; no drops or lags in the video streams witnessed and seen no other issues so far with this YouTube channel on Roku. To me the Roku-2-XD was the best $50 I spent for home entertainment ~~ 3 years ago; now with YouTube it's all that much better... Maybe we are getting closer to the death of cable, satellite, over the air DTV and enduring the relentless commercials thereof?
http://blog.roku.com/blog/2014/04/22...ation-devices/
Example video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI5cF...ribhSo2fW1KHuQ
Example video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUxagOAVS5M
Tom (PK)