Lifetime, AE and History Channel available on Roku

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Lifetime

Categories: New, Movies & TV

Dance Moms. Project Runway. Witches of East End. Now you can watch your favorite Lifetime shows on Roku. The Lifetime app is a great new way to access full episodes and clips from all that Lifetime has to offer. New content is added all the time. Streaming is only available in United States

HISTORY

Developer: A&E Networks

Pawn Stars. Swamp People. Vikings. Now you can watch your favorite HISTORY shows on ROKU. The HISTORY app is a great new way to access full episodes and clips from all that HISTORY has to offer. New content is added all the time. Please note: HISTORY content is only available to stream in the United States.



The HISTORY app lets you:



- Watch full episodes and clips of your favorite series including Pawn Stars, Swamp People, Vikings, American Pickers and many more.

- Create a customized Watchlist of your favorite shows.


A&E

Developer: A&E Networks

Duck Dynasty. Storage Wars. Bates Motel. Now you can watch your favorite A&E shows on Roku. The A&E app is a great new way to access full episodes and clips from all that A&E has to offer. New content is added all the time. Please note: A&E content is only available to stream in the United States.



The A&E app lets you:



- Watch full episodes and clips of your favorite series including Duck Dynasty, Storage Wars, Bates Motel, The First 48 and many more.

- Create a customized Watchlist of your favorite shows.



- See exclusive clips from A&E shows, never before shown on television


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[navychop]

Well, that's the GOOD news. Now, for the REST of the story:

To watch some of the material, you must "log in" by linking your device (Roku or Xbox) to your TV provider and entering a code. And there is a long list of providers. Too bad Dish, DirecTV, Uverse, Fios, Cox and many others aren't listed. So the material available is somewhat limited. But History includes some stuff from H2, if you can get to it.

 

[jayn_j]

Well, that's the GOOD news. Now, for the REST of the story:

To watch some of the material, you must "log in" by linking your device (Roku or Xbox) to your TV provider and entering a code. And there is a long list of providers. Too bad Dish, DirecTV, Uverse, Fios, Cox and many others aren't listed. So the material available is somewhat limited. But History includes some stuff from H2, if you can get to it.

Translation: This is yet again a supplemental service for those that subscribe to some form of Pay TV. It will not be available via ala-carte subscription.

 

[osu1991]

Same as their websites, they are locked down to authorized providers which there are not very many and probably won't be for a while, what with all the long term contracts.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

No DISH, DIRECTV, COX or COMCAST in there.

 

[navychop]

Translation: This is yet again a supplemental service for those that subscribe to some form of Pay TV. It will not be available via ala-carte subscription.

And not even many of them.

 

[Mr Tony]

well thanks for getting my hopes up as A&E and History are the 2 main cable channels I watch outside of sports

 

[Hall]

Even if Time Warner is on the list (I use them for internet), they likely check what is subscribed to (and internet alone isn't sufficient).

 

[Mr Tony]

well I downloaded the A&E one and it does have newer episodes on it....from a couple weeks ago for free
the new stuff you need to log in

But the ones I started watching are like blown up you tube videos...very compressed quality. Wonder if you log in will it be better quality?

 

[Hall]

Tried the 30-second trailer for Vikings and the picture quality was WORSE than YouTube!

Time Warner is not one of their partners either...

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[Kraven]

well I downloaded the A&E one and it does have newer episodes on it....from a couple weeks ago for free
the new stuff you need to log in

I was quite pleased with the limited A/E selection.. there's enough free content there to keep people entertained for quite a while. Am going to watch the Bonny and Clyde mini-series over the weekend.

 

[pickone4me]

I guess I got my hopes up for nothing too. I guess I won't get one then.

 

[Mr Tony]

I was quite pleased with the limited A/E selection.. there's enough free content there to keep people entertained for quite a while. Am going to watch the Bonny and Clyde mini-series over the weekend.

hopefully the picture quality is better than the couple shows I started to watch

 

[JayStil]

I was looking for "Your Bleeped up Brain" on History/H2. It wasn't there. I didn't try to stream any of the other offerings. I'll give it a quick shot tonight and post a quality report.

 

[JayStil]

Watched a H2 show last night (how the states got their shape) and quality was excellent. Hard to see any difference from a HD2 broadcast. But my Roku is on the bedroom TV, which is only 32".

 

[Rey]

Translation: This is yet again a supplemental service for those that subscribe to some form of Pay TV. It will not be available via ala-carte subscription.

This is what kills it for me.....

 

[. Raine]

Kinda like a tease, they give you a little, hoping you'll subscribe to watch the rest. The picture quality didn't look bad to me, but my eyesight is also very poor. I wouldn't have noticed unless it was real bad, like pixelated or similar. History looks to be the best of them to me, as to the amount of free watchable content.

 

[bhawley]

Just tried A&E and History, no login required and every show I tried worked. I am on TW for internet but use Dish for tv.

 

[Stargazer]

I wonder if they discover the ip address as TW and is allowing the content without a login? You could find a friend that might give you login info that has a service.

 

[TNGTony]

These channels must require a Roku3 because I can't see any of them with my first generation units.