Hi, everyone !!
After a couple of weeks, during which we've seen in excess of 280+ new Roku apps released across both of my 'Weekly RoundUp' posts, it might come as a bit of a surprise for some of you to hear that there were actually ZERO NEW CHANNELS RELEASED IN THE LAST SEVEN DAYS but, for those who may not already have been aware, it was planned that way as far back as June of this year. Anyone who read my "Roku UK Channel Store - Weekly RoundUp #350" post from last month will by now be familiar with Roku's annual publishing blackout over the 'Thanksgiving' holiday period in the United States. However, as long-time Roku users (like myself) can attest, there has traditionally also been another extended publishing blackout over the festive period at the end of the year. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the same applies for the few weeks covering the end of 2019 into the New Year 2020. Thankfully, normal service should be resumed in a few weeks... but, in the meantime, be sure to keep an eye on the sidebar of this blog (located in the top right portion of the page) for details of the best prices on Roku over the 'Boxing Day' sales (i.e. Thursday 26th December 2019) as well as during the weeks that follow going into the 'January Sales' throughout the first month of 2020. Whenever I can find the time (on any given day) this information will be updated daily with all the best deals! ;-) :-D
In the meantime, if I hear of any Roku-related special offers and/or newsworthy items which I feel may be of interest to readers of this blog I will add the details to whatever happens to be the current article at the time. So, if you wish to stay informed on Roku-related matters of this sort over the next week (i.e. prior to the publication of my next 'Weekly RoundUp' post) then be sure to bookmark this page and come back to it (every now and again) to check for any news updates or deals on any Roku products that are currently being marketed in the UK. For those who may have missed my daily post updates in the past seven days, it may interest you to know that the complete list of 143 new Roku channels (from my "Roku UK Channel Store - Weekly RoundUp #353" post) is now available in it's entirety. So, if you're feeling a little let-down by the absence of new channels in this current post, you could do worse than to spend some time browsing the full list of 140+ apps from last week, together with the equally impressive list of 138 new Roku channels from the week before that, for a combined choice of over two hundred and eighty new channels to add to the selection of apps which are already installed on your own Roku device(s). One way or another, there's plenty to occupy your time just by reading this blog... never mind the (seemingly) endless hours of streaming content at your fingertips whenever you do sit down to watch something on your Roku over the festive period! ;-) :-D
Finally, although there are no Roku channels for me to list in this 'Weekly RoundUp' post, there have been a few more 'Roku Guide' reviews published during the last seven days... the links to which have now been added to the relevant posts on this blog. From their perspective, the absence of any new apps to review means the ongoing issue of "missing" reviews from the 'Roku Guide' website has (at least) not worsened since my last mention of it on this blog. In fact, since they managed to produce another eight reviews, with three from last week, plus; two more from the week before that, along with; three US-only channels, it means that the deficit has actually been reduced for only the second time this year! :-O Even so, they remain more than seventy-five percent shy of where they should be and when things pick-up again (once the current channel publishing blackout ends) there could be hundreds (if not thousands) more Roku apps with no corresponding independent review for me to provide a link from the 'Weekly RoundUp' posts on this blog. I hope that shortfall is addressed soon because, as mentioned 47 weeks ago, the current situation isn't good for anyone connected to Roku: be they end-users, developers, bloggers like myself, or even Roku - whose platform provides the very source from which 'Roku Guide' compile their reviews! :-O