Gotadimple
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Roku does offer PBS - from your local station, but live stream of news is not in the offering. One day delay on Masterpiece is available and your local station may also post any programming they do locally, but delayed by a day or so.In our area an antenna will not work.
Does anyone know if the Roku box offers the PBS news (as well as the programming like Masterpiece)? We watch BBC America news and The News Hour when the news programming appears to be views we don't find too objectionable .
Also is it possible to fast forward through commercials on the streaming from the Roku? With Xfinity on Demand it is not possible to do this so this one advantage of the DVR setup.
Commercials: you won't find them generically on all the hundreds of channels on the Roku player (most are free). You will find them on Hulu (a paid offering), but not on Netflix (a paid channel). Most television series run 45 minutes in length (that is, 45 minutes without commercials) - on commercial TV that program would run 60 minutes.
As all of these programs are in 'the can,' I don't see the need for a DVR, and especially when most don't have commercials any way. You can check out the channel offerings on the Roku website along with its current players. Then Walmart or Target (or maybe Amazon) is a good place to do pricing on the players.
Rita