Fire TV certainly blows Roku out of the water from a UK point of view, from the press release Roku are launching these ⋅ Roku Express: MSRP £ 29.99 ⋅ Roku Premiere: MSRP £ 39.99 ⋅ Roku Streaming Stick+: MSRP £ 49.99 Compared to Fire TV: Fire TV Stick £39.99 Fire TV Stic...

Even if you did try jumping around any geo restrictions, the unit would probably still look for a Kwese play server/ connection first.  Its a sham there is/appears to be no way to manually flash Roku software, as it would help in situations like this, you could try asking Roku support, but you proba...

In the UK, phone infrastructure companies such as British Telecom have been forced to allow other companies access to their  networks to allow so called free  market  competition and prevent a monopoly from existing.  The effect has been for the main incumbent, British Telecom to be split up into tw...

Capped data on standard isp Contracts is something that is extremely rare these days, if you are on a capped data contract, you should move to an alternative ISP ( there's plenty of choice with ISPs/phone providers)  You should be able to get a basic unlimited ADSL contract ( speeds about 12mb ) for...

Chances of a UK release.....
nah, we've got the Roku express (yay)

Are these Roku units, or are they "Roku powered" units? In the UK we have Now TV boxes/sticks etc that are Roku Powered, and there are also a small selection of Roku products available, form my understanding the same situation is repeated elsewhere:  Rokus own hardware ( where available) t...

They come into your home What you get upto in your own home is your own business, who is this "they" "They" will not be able to enter your home without a search warrant, and "they" will need to have a good reason in order to obtain such a thing. 1:Are you in the UK? Yo...

A list of Roku devices supported by the BBC Iplayer here https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/roku
If you dont have wifi (?) then you can purchases a Wifi access point cheaply, or use a homeplug with a wifi hotspot built in.
 Your ISP supplied router/modem should also have wifi

I'm surprised that US ISps are still offering capped deals.  from a UK perspective, you can get unlimited data for around the equivalent of $35/month ( speeds upto 70mb typicaly 36mb and above depending upon condition of the line)  and if your happy with ADSL ( speeds around 10mb ) that drops to US$...

Some of the Amazon Fire Tv products support ethernet adaptors https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-Ethernet-Adaptor-Remote-models/dp/B01LXP5TXI You might be better off with Fire TV as opposed to Roku - unless your desperate for Now TV, Fire TV has almost everything that Roku offers, including  4oD but no...

It could be VPN issues ( if you have such stuff running) another issue could be your ISP/assigned IP address, there is/was an issue with plusnet assigining customers with IP addresses that had formerly been assigned to places such as the USA, see here: https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/...

From a UK point of view Roku hardware, and Amazon Tv hardware is the equivalent to the Freeview ( digital TV converter) boxes , after a while all TVs had digital TV built in, and the available freeview ( digital TV converter) boxes available /being sold dried up. Roku hardware ( as well as the likes...

This ( should be) the UK Roku page : https://www.roku.com/en-gb/ Scroll down to the bottom and you can see where Roku sells/tailors its products to under Change region.  If you are in a Now TV country, and that country/region is also in a Roku area then its logical that the Now TV tapp will be on ro...

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You should bear in mind, that one of the purposes of Amazons devices is to encourage you to buy amazon products/services etc, hence the need for a credit card on sign up.
 Although if I'm not mistaken, creating a Roku account also requires a credit card