If they support Chromecast or AirPlay, you’re good to go, YouTube app be damned.

In that case, you can stream YouTube and YouTube TV from your phone, tablet, or computer. There’s also a decent chance that your relatively modern TV has Google’s Chromecast protocol, or Apple’s AirPlay baked in. If you’ve got some operating system other than Roku, you almost certainly should be able to watch YouTube and/or YouTube TV using it instead of an external Roku device. (If that OS happens to be Roku, well, you’re out of luck and will need to skip down a few paragraphs.) But it could be Vizio’s SmartCast, or Samsung’s smart OS, or even Google TV or Amazon Fire TV. There’s a pretty good chance that if you’ve bought a television in the past few years, it comes with some sort of smart operating system built in. The cheapskate option: Use what you’ve got That mostly comes down to a function of how much money you’re willing to spend. Slightly more difficult is deciding what hardware to go with instead of Roku. If you just have to keep YouTube TV, then your best bet is going to be to move off of Roku and onto some other platform. Phil Nickinson/Digital Trends Option 1: Get rid of Roku No promises that you’re going to like them, though. The good news, if there’s any to be had when two companies are fighting publicly and dragging their customers into the mud with them, is that you’ve got options. And it raises the very real question about what your options are if, come the second week of December, YouTube and YouTube TV no longer are available on Roku. It’s exhausting as someone who uses Roku.

It’s exhausting as someone who uses YouTube TV. 2 live TV streaming service on Roku due to the fallout from this whole fracas. (Roku says it’s not about money, but it’s totally about money.) Losing YouTube also would mean losing access to YouTube TV, because that’s currently the only way to get to the No. 2 in the rest of the world - could lose access to YouTube due to an ongoing dispute with Google over … something. 1 streaming platform in the United States, and No. Fitbit Versa 3Ĭome December 9, it’s very possible that Roku - the No.

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