{"id":4006,"date":"2015-07-29T17:19:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T07:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2015-07-30T08:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T22:35:30","slug":"roku-to-launch-in-australia-as-telstra-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/roku-to-launch-in-australia-as-telstra-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Roku to launch in Australia as &#8220;Telstra TV&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Telstra announced Wednesday it has partnered with the U.S.-based company Roku, which makes digital set top boxes that supply one point of access to apps, channels and streaming platforms, to launch Telstra TV.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Available from September, Telstra TV will offer customers one handy point of access to home-grown streaming platforms Presto and Stan, TV catchup services, BigPond Movies, as well international streaming player, Netflix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s the Roku 2 box rebranded as &#8220;Telstra TV&#8221; for some ungodly reason.\u00a0Why confuse the brand Telstra marketing geniuses?<\/p>\n<p><del>To add to the strangeness of it all the deal is for\u00a0the old version of the box. Roku 3 has been out for a while, why launch using outdated tech?<\/del> I take it back, the 3 &amp; 2 came out at the same time but differ in their remote (Thanks @tcn33).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/07\/28\/telstra-roku-streaming-service\/\">Australians can finally stream (almost) everything from the one place<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Telstra announced Wednesday it has partnered with the U.S.-based company Roku, which makes digital set top boxes that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}