Free Sci Fi Movies and TV on Roku or laptop

Since I was a little kid I really liked Science Fiction.  I liked everything from the scary moments to seeing what seemed impossible mixed with the potential it may happen within my future!  Channels on Roku offer a wide variety of Sci-Fi, many at no cost.  Look back on some of my earlier blogs to see information on Play-On which will work best with high speed internet and a newer computer, and you still can get a trial version to test it.  Play-on had some SyFy science fiction television episodes and for those without Roku, SyFy channel offers free TV episodes including Being Human, Haven, and Warehouse 13 (some on SyFy Rewind as well), and movies on their website to pay right on your laptop or desktop!  Hulu also offer some free science fiction on their website and on Play-On.

The Roku channel store has Sci-Fi mixed in throughout, but mostly under Movies and TV area.  Free channels include: Drive-In Classics with zombie and alien fare; PubDHub (only Gold is at cost, so scroll to right after it for the free films) has old Bela Lagosi and Boris Karloff films and others alphabetically listed in a Horror & Sci-Fi area; PopcornFlix has Thriller and Horror films, Inmoo has Horror & Sci-Fi too, Retrovision.TV on the internet/web for your laptop/desktop (& on Roku as a private channel with code: Retrovision) has old Sci-Fi/Horror; Crackle would have some sci-fi mixed in too; NowhereTV (a private channel which I discuss in an earlier blog) has Archived Sci-Fi/Horror films including the ORIGINAL 13 Ghost(s), and the real thing: Astronomy taped programming of Hubblecast, NASA TV and more.  Other channels include: House of Horrors at $1.99 with Hitchcock, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney films and more; Creepster.TV at cost; Netflix at $7.99/month has some scifi and horror films and TV shows mixed in to play on your laptop/desktop or Roku (has a one month free trial) and Amazon Prime has Science Fiction movies at a cost of $38/year for college students, and $79/year for others, and probably still has the free trial.  Check my earlier blog for more information at:  http://tvwithoutcable.blogspot.com /2012_02_01_archive.html and start enjoying the classics, scary B films, and newer Sci-Fi, Thrillers, Supernatural and Horror movies and TV!  Stay tuned for more offerings and check out my older blogs too!

Foreign Movies & TV on Roku and Netflix

Netflix on your laptop, desktop, Roku, or other streaming device offers foreign movies and television series.  Some of the listed channels in this blog are also available on your laptop!  Roku itself has numerous foreign channels, some free, some at cost to access shows from your native land, in your native tongue, or in a new language to learn about where you might imagine visiting.  This blog has two short videos.  The first one is about the Roku channel store offerings.  In addition to travel channels, some channels are free (or appear to be) including under International-Other: Mieux Vivre---a French channel from Quebec, Rustavi 2 from Republic of Georgia, Bwatla! from Haiti, DLE with Japanese animation, Biboc TV from Romania live, Urbano, Vidunia with Arabic movies, my TV Arabic fare, Via Argentina, Sahara TV (Nigerian-African), Via Espana, SuR Titulares, Ultra Television Mexico, EUlive Media (European), GhanaLive.tvLITE, TVmia, Antena Latina 7, Filipino Channel TV, MHZ on Demand, tagesschau (German news), Kdrama (Korean), DramaFever (Korean), and there are more in this area at cost.  There is also a long list of International-South Asia channels, many at limited cost, some seem to be free with or without a code.  There are also anime channels such as Crunchy Roll.  Many of these offer Bollywood films.  See below the first video for Netflix foreign TV & Movies and other channels.

Netflix offers for $7.99 a month, as of Spring 2012, British Films & TV shows (not foreign as in English), and Foreign Films.  See the second video below for a view of Netflix options.  In addition to these films there are a number of Bollywood films with subtitle options.  See below this video for more Roku options.

On Nowhere TV (see this blog to see how to get it-- http://tvwithoutcable.blogspot.com/2012/02/cable-less-some-movie-channels-on-roku.html) though not "Foreign", there are BBC podcasts.  There are also international channel podcasts and programming from Aljazeera, arirang (Korea), BBC Arabic, Canal Savoir, Canal Sur (Spanish), CCTV (China), CNBC Europe, CPAC (Canada), Deutsche Welle, EPT Greek, Euronews, France24, Jewish Life TV live ( Israel), RT Russia Today, SKAI Greek, Univision, VOX Africa and many more.  Openfilm is offered through Roku channels store under films or on your laptop and has Vancouver Canada film school and other offerings,  Inmoo.com both on the internet and on Roku (film area channel store) offers some foreign films.  Popcornflix both on the internet and Roku (film area channel store) has some Foreign films including Bollywood and Espanol offerings, some of the later are American films in Spanish.  Enjoy the offerings!!

Free Sports on TV on Roku!

Roku has numerous channels with sports programming from a wide variety of sports, with many live game  channel offerings at nominal cost (in second paragraph below), while many other channels are free.  In the channel store, Sports by Blinkx offers sports updates, recaps and goal replays; Giant Bomb is for video game enthusiasts with thousands of game reviews, videos and previews with humor; NBA Game Time Lite has game video highlights, live scores, and team, player, and league standings; SEC digital network for Smart TV of Southeastern Conference with current week full games, highlights, and more; XOS College Sports with largest digital library with over 75 years of competition of full games, highlights and documentaries; TNA on Demand of wrestling videos; Fast Hockey Presents USHL for hockey fanatics; Mile Split TV offers Track & Field, cross country, running races, news, interviews, and photos; Diversion TV offers action sports film; Sail TV live action and competitions; for surfers The Jay at Maverick's (2011); Baseball, Football, Tennis, Basketball, and Softball TIPS LITE and Drills & Tips Libraries; Fastpitch Softball TV; and The Spirit International (Golf); Seattle Sounders Football Club.  Trigger Talk TV is about firearms.  Crackle has The Tester, an original competitive reality series from PlayStation network where 11 gamers compete in physical and mental game challenges to win a job.

Also available through the channel store, at cost, you can buy subscriptions to live games and other offerings for costs from $2.99 to $11.00 a month.  For a subscription cost of $125/yr, MLB.TV Premium has over 2,430 regular and season games Live or on-Demand in HD, and watch at cost Motor Sport World with hours of TV quality racing programs from America and abroad for $4.99 a month, NHL Game Center at service fees; WillowTV for coverage of cricket matches and channel at cost, MLS Soccer live games at cost with blackout restrictions; UFC Ultimate Fighting live and on-demand at cost; Go Fight Live at fee for boxing, martial arts, and wrestling; the SURF network at cost, the MOTO network at cost; Midwest Cage Championship at cost (Fighting); Sportskool Golf at $2.99 a month with pros tips; and Sportskool Extreme Sports and Team Sports at $2.99 each a month.

NowhereTV ( a private channel I describe in some of my other blogs) offers a number of Gaming video channels, and MLB, Motorsports, NHL and other sports offerings from ESPN weekly takes to Tour de France videos to NCAA sports, Tennis TV, ESPNU college football and basketball.  NowhereTV also has videotaped news broadcasts with some sports.  To see my mini-tour of roku, go to my blog: http://tvwithoutcable.blogspot.com/2012/03/roku-mini-tour-tv-addiction.html .  Tune in again to my blog for more hints on how and where to find free TV, movies, sports, videos, net, and other offerings!

Family-Friendly ROKU! Warning, some will appeal to 20 year olds!

I had one of them, a kid, only she's a young adult now.  It wasn't that long ago where I had to pick and choose programming and you can choose which channels to put on your TV, as opposed to setting up parental controls and hoping they don't watch something confusing across the street.  I can only make recommendations of channels I have limited knowledge of, it is up to you to test the waters and if you don't like a channel, go to the asterisk on the remote, press it, and follow the prompts to remove it!  Movies on any of the channels may have material you don't choose, but it seems most or all of pornographic channels are private channels you in fact have to search to locate.  For my mini tour of Roku, see my first video blog at: http://tvwithoutcable.blogspot.com/2012/03/roku-mini-tour-tv-addiction.html

Firstly, look in the channel store.  There is a row of channels called "Kids & Family," but be prepared some of this entertainment will make twenty-somethings smile or the little kid in all of us.  First the freebies.  Disney has a video channel, with clips from TV shows, Kidlet has free TV episodes most or all of which are cartoon shows (limited time offer), Khan Academy has subject teaching videos, The Bazillions with animated music videos and live performances.  Now you know your kids are grown up and you are getting old when you don't recognize the next best entertainment for kids.  I had to "google" The Bazillions.  Iggy.tv described as family-friendly and not embarrassing to adults, blip.tv independent "home" content, Party Rockers reality tween scene dance shows from Delaware, and Kid Paint (reminds me of Mario Paint)!!  At minimal cost:  Sudoku Art, Nature Window TV, Superman Classics  (1940s cartoons), Baby FirstTV (higher end at $4.99/mo.), Timeless Toons (24/7 live from FlickStream from 30s to 90s), Pets.TV, Ameba, some of the "Science and Technology" choices, Netflix at $7.99/month as a channel has Anime and Children & Family movies categories with Phineas & Ferb, Teen Spirit, cartoon movies, Lemonade Mouth, Iron Giant (good for all ages), and more, plus Netflix has some ABC Family movies mixed in.  Nowhere TV has a Kids and Family area with podcasts from DragonflyTV, Cartoon Network, BabyShiz, Sprout, Sesame Street, Kid Videos, Inside the Magic:Disney, EarthTouch and more.  If memory serves, I think PlayOn had some kid friendly offerings, see my blog http://tvwithoutcable.blogspot.com/2012/03/more-roku-channels.html  Also, Spiritclips has the ultimate in family entertainment with many Hallmark Hall of Fame films for about $3.00 a month.  See you soon for more hints on how to have inexpensive or free TV and movies and cartoons! 

Student-Friendly TV without cable-- check out my Roku video too

A few weeks ago, I gave some ideas for students on how to get free TV and movies without a cable or satellite bill.  I went back to school after my daughter graduated, so we both don't have cable.  She watches on her laptop and I watch on my Roku.  I mentioned streaming options on PS3, Wii, Roku, XBox360, Roku, Apple TV and others on my blog: http://tvwithoutcable.blogspot.com/2012/03/free-tv-and-movies-on-your-laptop-and.html .  I also mentioned some TV and movie channels that are accessible right off the internet.

I discussed playon which streams from your computer to the television, its merits and trying it free to make sure your internet speed and computer are adequate on this blog: http://tvwithoutcable.blogspot.com/2012/03/more-roku-channels.html  

My first video can be seen at: http://tvwithoutcable.blogspot.com/2012/03/roku-mini-tour-tv-addiction.html which gives a mini tour of Roku on television.

Some additional student-friendly channels on Roku include: new channel iFame which has indie movies, music, dance, and even some hip hop and classic comedy from Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello; Party Rockers Dance Reality, TED (some courses use these), Revision3--geekbeat and net news, AOLHD-cooking to gadget new, many radio channels, many sports and movie channels previously mentioned, Giant Bomb-video game reviews and previews, Twit-tech, Tested-smartphone, tablet camera reviews, Screened-trailers and more (some humor), Crunchyroll-anime, Live Exercise and other exercise channels, cooking channels, Kid Paint-like Mario Paint, comedy from Funny or Die and Break, Blinkx-videos, Kung-Fu Theater and so much more!  There is are vimeo, picasa, flickr, shutterfly, Smugmug, Facebook photos & videos, horoscopes, travel, international stations, and religion channels.  Games are probably at cost.  The budget $49.99 Roku LT when available comes without angry bird game.  You can also get private channels to put on Roku.  And....if you don't like a channel, press the asterisk on your Roku remote, follow the prompts and voila...it's gone.  Come back for more ideas and enjoy the show!

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Roku: mini tour & TV addiction

MANY people before me have created blogs and sites about Roku, some with great screenshots.  If my embedded video doesn't work, see it at: http://youtu.be/FGq1OG6uu5I .  I simply wanted to save money, so I set up an experiment to see if I wouldn't go stark raving mad without my sound box to keep me company and sing me to sleep.  TV is like "boxed company," sad huh?  I was raised with TV in every room (except bathrooms); I admit it, I was addicted to THE BOX.  Why isn't there a teleholics outreach or a 5-step program to set us free?  Roku is a portable streaming device that offers an alternative so our living rooms don't go silent and our brains can get their daily fix of movies or TV shows.  Here are some of my screenshot photos:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/collegemum505/?saved=1  Here is one of them:

I began my journey with old analog TVs and no antennas.  Pulling my cable connection for me literally meant NO TV.  I had to do it in steps, just like an addict.   A little Roku box on an old analog TV with a game or video channel (under ch. 2) plus 2-3 yellow, white, maybe red A/V openings, and high speed Internet are all that are needed to see series, movies, news.  Add an amplified antenna and a digital converter box and you may get some local stations too, it was so exciting when that antenna pulled in TV at no monthly cost!  Add that antenna to a newer HD TV and voila!  Roku has Audio-visual or HDMI connections.  Come back soon to learn more tips about Roku, TV alternatives, Free shows & movies on the Net.