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It's official.. Roku has YouTube as an official channel now!!  and how good is it??  Well had I not had the other two channels before it would have been a ten on a scale to ten or there abouts.. Yeah there are issues but its alright.. The search is impossible at best because if you make a mistake in the search in spelling it will take forever to erase and go from there.. It's a good channel (app) but not perfect.. However if you have a supported gadget it is perfect.. The search with a gadget is like typing with a keyboard so at least that will work.. The search part I can't evaluate although it is a carry over search in that anything I search for on the other video search sites (videobuzz and what's on) will carry over to the youtube channel.. 

The picture above shows youtube in an old roku OS from over a year ago.. The biggest surprise yesterday was the addition of Youtube channel to roku because there were so many questions on every site through the past year about well is roku ever gonna get a youtube channel.. When videobuzz was taken down last year I was desperate for a way to see youtube anyway that I could and just happened to be at the right place at the right time and was able to get the secret way to get What's on to be a youtube viewing channel (app) and that was better than nothing.. Then Videobuzz was offered as a sideload (developers) channel.. And although not perfect it was better than the what's on channel.. Now I know there are people that don't care for Youtube at all either on the computer or the roku and I get that but it sure seemed like it was a deal breaker for those who were looking at Roku or whatever.. I have said it was nearly a deal breaker for me but decided because of all the support that I would get the roku and hope youtube would be there..  There were other ways to get the channel but I never could get those to work.   

Now the big question is will the supreme court rule in favor of Aero.. Roku has a Aero private channel available but it to me might be too questionable..  They have spent nothing but time in court recently and they also don't have many cities they service.. Something like six only but when you figure it they only need one.. They have cloud based dvr service.. Would that be important??  They charge to use their service but don't pay the networks anything for the rights to the programming.. That sounds a bit like steeling.  More than a bit but there are several ways to look at it and when you read or view the videos you see their way of looking at it.. Right now I'm happy with what I have on the Roku.. Wouldn't trade it for anything..

Badge Henry