UK Roku Official Channels - Sci & Tech Genre

Hi, everyone !!

As promised in the previous post, here is the sixteenth in my series of general overviews (i.e. listings) for the various genres within the "Official" UK Roku Channel Store following changes to the available selection of channel store categories made during late May / early June of 2015. This time it's the sixty channels which make up the "Sci & Tech" genre that come under the spotlight:-

001. CNET

002. TWiT

003. CuriosityStream

004. Tesla Media Network

005. Retro Tech Time Machine

006. Jupiter Broadcasting on Roku

007. TechSmart.TV

008. ITProTV

009. Zoomin.TV Science and Tech

010. Diamond Club TV

011. AmateurLogic.TV

012. TMRO

013. Category5 TV Network

014. Guys From Queens - GFQ Network

015. App Updates [by Fawesome.TV]

016. A Plus Physics

017. Youth Robotics TV

018. The Tech Buzz Network

019. Tech-Zen.TV

020. Alixa.TV

021. Air Mozilla

022. Dr. Bill Bailey.NET NETcasts

023. Renderosity

024. Space

025. Institute of Health Sciences

026. Adam Curry's Big App Show

027. DNews

028. James Woodcock's Podcast

029. Space TV

030. Hackers

031. Security Now

032. Household Hacker

033. ColdFusionTV

034. 5 THINGS

035. The King of Random [formerly Grant Thompson]

036. WhizKidScience

037. Ubuntu Podcast

038. DRONE

039. StarTalk All-Access

040. Engineer Guy

041. HostArmor

042. Haivision - Video at Work

043. Javascript Crash Course

044. The Web Dev Show

045. Bad Voltage

046. Bitwit

047. GetConnected Tech Show
048. TechSmartt
049. TechnoBuffalo
050. Bitcoins
051. Joe Screwdriver's NASA Channel
052. WordPress Guru
053. CoCoTV
054. Galaxy
055. Jigsaw Security News
056. Space Of Innovation TV
057. Technology World
058. Wonder Science
059. SyFlix Int
060. Tech X - Technology & Science

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PLEASE NOTE:- This information was last updated on Sunday 20th May 2018 with all channel details accurate as of Saturday 19th May 2018. In future, when viewing this list... you should ignore the original date of the post and, instead, refer to this section for precise details on when the "Sci & Tech" category listing was compiled.

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As with the previous fifteen genres, outlined earlier, further details as to the specifics for each of these channels will follow at a later date. Again, you can expect similar overviews for the remaining genres to be added over the series of posts immediately following this one.

Next up will be an itemised listing of the "Screensavers" genre, featuring 253 Channels !!


So, be sure to visit this blog again soon for even more information on the Roku streaming media player, here in the UK.

Official Roku UK Channel Store - Overview

When it comes to what's on television, be it via a Roku player or otherwise, it should really boil down to the QUALITY and NOT QUANTITY of what's on offer, don't you agree?


That said, if what you get has both quality and quantity, then you really will be spoilt for choice !!


If you visited the Roku (UK) official site as of April 2017 you would have been greeted with an introduction that boasted of "over 2,000 channels and counting", which does (I'll admit) tend to emphasise quantity over quality, although the reality is such that there are now more than double that number of Roku channels (apps) available to UK Roku users from within the built-in channel store on *all* Roku UK devices. In terms of the quality for the available channels, there were references to BBC iPlayer, Netflix, NOW TV, Sky Sports, ITV Player, Demand 5, YouTube, BBC Sport and many more. Even so, whilst the likes of Netflix, BBC, NOW TV, etc. do offer a substantial amount of quality programming, you're still left wondering exactly what is meant by "and many more"...


So, with that in mind, I decided to continue with my blog by posting details of what you can expect from, firstly, the "Official" Roku (UK) Channel Store and then, later, from the wider market offered by the multitude of Roku "Private" Channels out there. I'll be getting down to the nitty gritty of the individual channels within specific genres another time but, for now, here's a list of the number of channels available in each 'genre' of the "Official" Roku (UK) Channel Store:-


Film & TV........................... 700 Channels
Games.............................. 187 Channels
Apps.................................. 51 Channels
Comedy.............................. 121 Channels
Educational......................... 124 Channels
Fitness.............................. 75 Channels

Food.................................. 158 Channels

International........................ 183 Channels

Kids & Family..................... 396 Channels

Lifestyle.............................. 265 Channels

News & Weather................ 160 Channels
Music................................ 299 Channels
Personal Media.................. 48 Channels
Photo Apps......................... 14 Channels
Religious.............................. 863 Channels
Sci & Tech......................... 60 Channels

Screensavers........................ 253 Channels

Shopping.............................. 18 Channels
Special Interest................... 359 Channels
Sports................................. 248 Channels
Themes.............................. 19 Channels
Travel................................. 217 Channels
Web Video......................... 98 Channels


TOTAL: 4,916 Channels


It should be noted that this total does not include the following:


Featured.............................. 21 Channels
New..................................... 154 Channels
Most Popular....................... 75 Channels


These have been omitted from the overall total because they are comprised entirely of channels which are featured in the main list of genres and, therefore, already part of the 4,916 channels therein. There is also a heading within the main menu on Roku player for "Home" (that was previously referred to as the "My Channels" sub-menu) which, as it's (original) name suggests, is comprised of whatever individual items (both 'official', i.e. 'public', and 'private' channels) have been added to the particular Roku account with which the Roku player is associated. Since that figure will vary from one Roku user to the next, I did not bother to include the number of "My Channels", or "Home" channels, here.

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PLEASE NOTE:- These figures were last updated on Sunday 20th May 2018 with all details accurate as of Saturday 19th May 2018. Therefore, when viewing this list... you should ignore the original date of the post and, instead, refer to this section for precise details on when it was compiled.

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So, that's the current state of play in terms of the sheer QUANTITY of channels you can expect from the UK version of the "Official" Roku (UK) Channel Store. Meanwhile, in case you are wondering, my next batch of posts are set to include basic listings for the various channel names within each of the aforementioned genres. For the sake of simplicity, I will stick to the order outlined above. So, if you want to know exactly what are the 700 channels which make up the "Film & TV" genre, you should make a point of visiting this blog again in the near future.


But, for now... that's all folks !!