Watching rail fan videos on YT

You need to set up an account with Roku correct? Does this apply a charge to watching a YouTube film?

Bob

This is similar to Google Chromecast. $35 dongle plugs into HDMI port. No subscription necessary. Works great. Don't know how that price compares to Roku.

That's cool! I do the same but with my playstation.

No charge for YT, and yes set up an account but no charge unless you decide to rent a movie or a subscription to something like time/warner videos. You set up your own 'Pin'

number and use that if you decide to charge anything.

I like this little item because it will plug into the back of my tv as well as the separate

power source which has a USB plug & can use the tv's power (or a separate power block

which is provided).

There are so many free movie wand documentary's available which are free. I'm using the History channel also to look at WW II footage of tankers, among other things.

An $8 online coupon is available for use at your  discretion.

Forgot to mention that there is some excellent film work done by CSXboy187 on

You Tube. 

Csxboy187 also publishes the consist list and has the actual engineer/crew talk recording. I suppose he must have one of their freqs to pick that up.

I've done this with my Xbox 360, and if you have a tablet with HDMI out, you can also output its web browser or YouTube app to the TV as well.

Some 'Smart TV's' can access YouTube via built-in apps without anything more than a wired/WiFi connection to your router.

While I'm at it, how about some TGV cab rides on your big-screen TV? 

(the above is a time-lapse version--the real-time videos run from 31 min to an hour+49 min with no music )

---PCJ

You can do the same thing with Apple TV and of course since it's Apple it's better!