I have Hulu right now, and I’m seeing the first season of The Act (drama about the Gypsy Rose/Dee Dee Blanchard affair, w/Joey King as Gypsy Rose Blanchard, and Patricia Arquette as her mother Dee Dee). It’s almost done (2 shows to go), and I’ve been enjoying it very much!
Try hulu streaming for $6 a month - if it runs smoothly, then I don’t see why live TV wouldn’t either. The bottleneck is likely to be something on your end rather than anything to do with their live TV broadcasts - although it’s possible I’m incorrect about this - so if you can stream hulu’s archive, you can probably stream the live TV.
Or better yet, I just looked it up and they offer a 7 day trial for their live TV service. That will answer this definitively.
I watch Hulu Live using my Roku TV and have noticed a few issues. Sometimes, the audio and video don’t sync (as in thirty seconds or more off, not just slightly off) and the remedy is to restart.
The problem I have had has some to do with Hulu, but mostly to do with my ISP. Hulu has to feed you the local channels for your present location. It gets that location info from your IP address. I live within two miles of the line between central and mountain time zones. My router uses a dynamic IP address. Sometimes the address is in mountain time. Sometimes in central time. I find this very annoying. Also, the local channels bounce from Albuquerque (in Mountain Time) to Lubbock, Amarillo, Midland/Odessa, or even San Angelo (all in Central Time). I don’t really care which central time city it picks, but I wish it would just stay with one. The only remedy seems to be to restart the router repeatedly until it gets the city I want.
Thanks, I don’t know how but I missed the 7 day trial with live tv service, I had thought it was just for streaming.
We’ve used Hulu streaming through the App on an AppleTV (3 and then 4) for several years. Very few problems. I mean the app has frozen up and required a reinstall maybe twice in those years, but as long as the internet has been up it’s worked like a charm.
I can’t speak for Hulu, but the Netflix app on Roku 1 is definitely subpar. You can’t even access any of your “other” accounts (I think you get 4 per subscription, normally), which if it’s just for you may not be an issue, but for people sharing in the same house, it’s a pain to not be able to keep track of your own lists, shows you watched, etc.
Youtube also has a very crappy version on the Roku 1.
That could be the problem, we were using it for Netflix.
You didn’t ask but I just got a new fire stick 4k and it’s fantastic and the apps work really well too. And I normally kinda dislike Amazon software, like fireOS.
Get the 4k model over the regular one even if you don’t need 4k. It’s only $10 more and it’s like 40% faster /snappier and it comes with a remote with power and volume controls. It’s actually a semi programmable remote. You can set up other devices and then hit voice control and say “turn on my Blu ray player”. And it will know to turn on the player and set the right input on the TV.
It’s a fantastic device for $50.