Suggestion for Roku Channel for LinusTechTips

[Boomwebsearch]

Most of the times when I watch digital content, I will watch on my Roku 3 that is connected to a television. Roku has a channel store where you can add apps to your player and use them from the home screen. I have noticed that some other channels like ThioJoe and Bitwit have added a Roku channel for their channel store, and am wondering if there are any plans for LinusTechTips to make a Roku app for their videos. I know that I can still view LinusTechTips content via the YouTube app, although I think that an application for Roku would be more efficient to access and could have all their other channels content there too (like TechLinked), and maybe there could be a FloatPlane signin feature within the Roku application for having the ability to access early-access LTT content without having to sign into a computer. Seems that the developers of apps have to create the app and then submit it to Roku to get published, case being that it is a public channel to be offered in the Roku store then it must go through their certification process, a link will be included to the Roku developer's information page for reference purposes.

 

link to the aforementioned resource/s from Roku:   https://developer.roku.com/overview   

      https://developer.roku.com/docs/developer-program/publishing/channel-publishing-guide.md

 

 

Please let me know if this is something that LinusTechTips plans to implement for Roku.

 Thanks in advance,

          @Boomwebsearch

[colonel_mortis]

That seems like a huge amount of effort. As far as I can see, it would require the videos to be uploaded to yet another place so that they can be streamed by Roku, and the app itself would require a lot of development. Maybe one day it will be implemented for Floatplane, but I don't think it makes financial sense to create a dedicated one for the content that is already available on YouTube.

[Velcade]

I watch YouTube on my Roku.  Works great.  LTT can be found that way.

[Tsuki]

7 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

Maybe one day it will be implemented for Floatplane

This would actually be a better suggestion.  a roku app for floatplane, to watch all the creators on it in one place, on the TV.

 

[LogicalDrm]

6 hours ago, Tsuki said:

This would actually be a better suggestion.  a roku app for floatplane, to watch all the creators on it in one place, on the TV.

 

Seeing how current FP development is going, Roku etc. will cost extra.

[Tsuki]

7 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

Seeing how current FP development is going, Roku etc. will cost extra.

oh definitely.  it would be a longterm goal, once the everything is fully fleshed out, and they have more creators on there.   it would be cool though

[driftz240]

Like @Velcade mentioned, why wouldn't you just watch ltt with the youtube app?

[Sousuke]

If it was easy to create and could link all videos from YouTube id recommend it but as colonel_mortis has stated it's a bit of a process without much of an incentive to put the work/money into it.