You can still watch free content from the Roku YouTube app, but you also have access to YouTube Premium and other content you have purchased or rented. To get started, install the free YouTube app from the Roku channel store. Once installed, you can log in with your Google account to access a variety of content. Sign into the account you've subscribed to YouTube Premium with to access its content.
You can access all your purchased movies and television shows in one menu. Casting is a great way to get YouTube videos on Roku.
Sign up for a weekly brief collating many news items into one untangled thought delivered straight to your mailbox. Email address. If you have a subscription to YouTube TV and a Roku streaming box , you've probably received emails detailing a dispute between the two companies. Roku says Google wants more user data, search-result manipulation and hardware requirements.
YouTube calls the claims "baseless and false" and says it wants to "renew the YouTube TV deal under the existing reasonable terms. For now, the main consequence of the dispute is that the YouTube TV app is unavailable on the Roku channel store. Roku owners can still use the YouTube TV app they have already, but if they delete it or get it a new Roku, they won't be able to re-download it.
Thankfully for new subscribers and anyone else who wants to watch YouTube TV on Roku, there's a decent workaround. If you don't have an Apple device, you could also use Roku's built-in screen mirroring, which works with most Android phones and Windows PCs.
Here's how. Per Roku's support page , the following devices are required for AirPlay:. To use AirPlay with Roku, the first step is to make sure your Roku is updated to the latest software and that your Apple device is on the same Wi-Fi network as your Roku. YouTube TV does not, however, have AirPlay built into its Chrome player for computers, so this is a little more complicated if you want to stream YouTube TV without broadcasting your whole computer.
In my experience on a recent Roku TV this worked pretty well, though you will need to switch channels with your Apple device. Mac users should set their computers to Do Not Disturb to ensure the least interruptions. One other thing: You will want to keep your device on and connected to the same Wi-Fi network to make sure the stream doesn't cut out.
That means anyone who buys a new Roku device after Dec. It's the latest battle between a Big Tech giant and a smaller technology firm trying to compete with each other. And, like many other smaller tech companies, Roku claimed Google is using its dominant market power to force unfavorable terms on a competitor.
In the meantime, an email sent from a Google executive to Roku as the two sides were negotiating their agreement counters Google's public statement that it didn't ask Roku for special treatment before allowing YouTube apps on Roku devices. Roku's claims already caught the eye of two of the most important members of Congress attempting to rein in Big Tech through antitrust legislation.
Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. David Cicilline, D-R. Roku also said Google asked for prioritized search results for YouTube videos in Roku's search feature. Roku said it agreed to those terms, but also asked that Google not ask for any additional data.
Google would not commit to that, according to Roku, and now both sides are at an impasse. Unless both companies come to an agreement before Dec.
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