Looking for Roku XTV? It's Now On IPTV

The XTV Roku channel was once one of the most popular Free channels on Roku

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When Roku needed to remove this channel due to complaints about 3rd party piracy violations, the groans and crying from the Roku community could be heard around the world.

Looking back at XTV and comparing it to today's popular free IPTV playlists like "Cloud9IPTV" or "cCloud" you can see some similarities to the massive list of Free content and live channels that were once available from the XTV Roku channel.

We're not going to share where to find these playlists but will give you a hint. Facebook search is your friend.

Around the time the Roku XTV channel came out, the Roku developer community was buzzing that Roku channels could use m3u feeds to provide their content. This meant an m3u playlist put together by someone willing to take the time could now become another source of great content for a Roku channel.

Roku at one point allowed several m3u playlist player channels on their platform where you could enter your own playlists.

It did not take long for many script sellers to jump back on the Roku platform selling their private m3u playlists which were chock full of you guessed it, pirated content hosted on private servers.

Since the primary use by many users was to watch pirated content with these channels, it was not long before Roku decided it would probably be best to remove these channels known as the Public Red Playlist Player, and the private Black m3u Player.

Even though these channels contained no pirated content in themselves, the channels were still hosted on Roku's servers which could make them liable if they did not respond to DCMA takedown requests under current US copyright law since the main reason they were used was for watching pirated content.

Currently, there are no more m3u players on Roku. Yet several different ones can be found on both Amazon's Fire TV and Apple TV. Recently Amazon also removed these playlist players from their store but they can easily be side-loaded on Fire TVs and Fire TV Sticks.

A lot of people these days seem to want to put down Roku because they were not as open as they once were. I'm sure if Roku could, they would have liked to continue on the way they always were. Except, they are now the number one media streamer in the world.

With this comes a great responsibility to try and do the right thing and lead by example.
Just because Roku removed the m3u playlist player Roku channels, it does not mean that they completely eliminated the ability to watch playlist from the Roku platform.

Roku is trying to keep their content providers happy, and now they also now need to answer to their stockholders as well.

There are actually still several ways to watch IPTV playlists on Roku. Although, they are now just a bit more discrete.

One way to play an IPTV Playlist includes a channel which was built by Roku which still continues to work today. It lets you play your m3u playlist files from either Network storage like a NAS or from a USB stick plugged into your Roku if it supports this.

The Roku Ultra is the only current Roku model that supports USB external storage devices. Roku 3, and 4, models all supported external USB storage as well.

So while the XTV Roku channel went away, it really continues to live on in the form of FREE IPTV m3u playlists which can be played on your Roku in one of these three different ways.

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