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August 14, 2011 Print Preview

YouTube on Roku?

Can you watch YouTube on Roku?

This is a question I get a lot of on Roku Review.

You used to be able to watch a private YouTube channel on Roku up until about Fall 2010.

But Google, which owns YouTube, later asked for Roku to take that channel down.

There are some ways to hack around this I'm sure, but I haven't spent much time doing so because there are just so many other options out there in terms of streaming video. And the quality of YouTube's videos almost always leaves something to be desired.

I'm pretty happy with Roku's Netflix and Hulu options, so what more do you need?

 

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