telcodad Roku rolled out today Howdy, a subscription video-on-demand service priced at $2.99/mo: Say Hi To Howdy, Roku’s New Ad-Free Subscription Streamer Priced At Just $3 A Month By Dade Hayes, Deadline - August 5, 2025 https://deadline.com/2025/08/roku-launches-howdy-subscription-streaming-low-price-1236477758/ Roku, which has spent the past two decades building an advertising business, is rolling out an ad-free subscription streaming outlet aimed at price-conscious consumers. Howdy, as the new service is known, will cost just $2.99 a month. At launch, it will offer a range of library films and series from Warner Bros. Discovery, Lionsgate and other suppliers. The goal is to provide comfort fare but without commercial interruption and without busting budgets. As other SVODs have aggressively stepped up prices, Roku is insisting that Howdy’s $2.99 is not a teaser or introductory price but is intended to stay in place for some time. ….
Andyross Sounds like it’s designed to be an extension of The Roku Channel for more premium content. Could be a Doody of a service. ArsTechnica had more of a writeup about it. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/roku-gets-frugal-with-the-content-and-price-of-its-new-streaming-service/
Andyross And, very annoyingly, Roku auto-added it to the home screen. At least it can be easily removed just like any other app.
egeezer Andyross Could be a Doody of a service. I see what you did there. Apparently, one won’t be buffaloed into subscribing and it will run in all seasons, summer fall winter spring. Pictures will be high quality and Clarabell. I’m done blustering, turning it back to the peanut gallery.