Roku gets frugal with the content and price of its new streaming service

At a time when the Subscription Video Streaming Services continue to become more expensive and their larger announcements, the new Roku streaming service, Howdy, is worth a more in -depth exam.

Howdy has launched in the United States today for $ 3 per month. It is currently only accessible via a web browser or the Howdy on Roku OS app. Roku said in his announcement today that Howdy will take place on “mobile and additional platforms in the near future”.

Howdy A, by Roku, “almost 10,000 hours” of Warner Bros. content. Discovery, Lionsgate and Filmrise. This is a much smaller number of content distribution partners than you will find on the flagship streaming service in Roku, The Roku Channel, which offers societies and films of companies like AMC Networks, MGM, NBCUNIVERS and paramount. (Roku also manufactures Roku OS operating systems for intelligent televisions and streaming devices and Roku-Brand televisions, and performs the television streaming service ().)

In his announcement, Roku praised the films Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and The blind side (2009) and shows Children in the room From Canada (1984 – Present) and Showtime’s Weeds (2005-2012), as well as “emblematic novels, medical dramas, comedy of the 90s, [and] The classics of well-being ”as projectors from the Howdy library.

By browsing the service, you will see that the features include American psycho (2000), Divergent (2014), Lucy (2014), Tank dogs (1992)Saw (2004), and The butterfly effect (2004). Among the featured television shows are Ambitions (2019), Party (2009-2010),, And South-Planche (2009-2013). The other titles include the film Crank (2006), The flesh fate (2017), The Iron Giant (1999)and the show Cheaters (2000-2021).

Inexpensive for streaming without advertising

As you can see from above, the Howdy library is not very modern or competitive with Netflix or other more expensive streaming services. But at $ 3 per month, Howdy is notable as one of the cheapest ways to obtain the dominant current – although largely dated – content without advertisements. By way of comparison, access without advertising to the much larger libraries in Netflix ($ 18 per month), Hulu ($ 19 per month) and Amazon Prime Video (from $ 12 per month without a prime subscription) is more expensive.