Cable-less, some movie channels on Roku

First I want to give credit to the screenshot in my first blog to: http://deviceguru.com/roku-screenshots/  Check it out after understanding the basics.  I learned today that Comcast customers have a new alternative coming out that may compete with Netflix-http://news.yahoo.com/survive-post-starz-netflix-194922104. html as a little less expensive.  Netflix effective today has broken their contact with Starz, but they will have other offerings that they claim are comparable.  Netflix is month-to-month without a contract, basic membership for streaming only is $7.99/month and can be cancelled at any time.  Netflix like some of the other sources I will mention can be accessed through the web, but the point of streaming devices is to watch it on TV.  Amazon.com has an amazon student for 6 mos. free of 2 day free shipping on some books/items for students, and they had me join that on one email and get a free month trial of Amazon Instant Video (Prime) on another.  If I want to join after my free month, then I can get half price as a student ($39/year) through my amazon student membership for prime movies/TV and other movies/TV at cost.  There may be another fee for Amazon student after 6 mos, but upgrade is part of amazon instant video prime fee so if I join the instant video I get amazon student benefits with it- http: //www.amazon.com/ gp/prime?ie=UTF8&* Version*=1&*entries*=0 .  If in doubt as to what you are buying or agreeing to press the "contact us" button on the right and after answering a few questions and providing your number, they will call you.  Vanguard Cinema, Crackle, Popcornflix, Inmoo.com, Openfilm and others can be accessed for free on Roku or the web mostly with just Movies, but Crackle has TV too.  There are a succession of other free movie channels mostly at the roku channel store, mostly of old films including Moonlight movies, Drive-in classics, Retrovision, and PubDHub (Gold version at cost, careful what you click into).   This is the icon for Nowhere TV.

Here are lists of some of roku's private channels: http://www.roku-channels.com/, http://hiddenchannel.com/ & http://streamfree.tv/apps/rokuchannels.php.  Private channels get added through your roku.com account or a link. http://streamfree.tv/apps/roku-private-channels/all-private-channels/nowhere-tv-20-thread.html leads you to Nowhere TV which I will discuss more next time.