Is there a way to watch Taiwanese baseball on Roku?

April 18, 2020 7:10 AM

Is there any way that I (in Canada) can watch the current Taiwanese baseball season on Roku? I've found ways to get it on my laptop but was hoping for a solution that can use my Roku rather than having to plug my laptop into the TV.
posted by synecdoche to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (5 answers total)

How do you get it on your laptop? Youtube has a Roku channel; I queue up videos, then play via Roku. Other video channels and news orgs have Roku channels.
posted by theora55 at 7:40 AM on April 18, 2020

Response by poster: @theora55, I've been watching via the streams posted to Twitter by Eleven Sports.
posted by synecdoche at 7:59 AM on April 18, 2020

You _used_ to be able see Twitter video on a Roku. However in 2018:

Beginning Thursday, May 24 [2018], Twitter will no longer be available on Roku, Android TV or Xbox according to one of their own tweets. Variety reports that "Twitter is shutting down apps for those platforms because it would need to make changes to them in order to comply the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which takes effect on May 25." However, Variety says that Twitter apps will still be available for Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV.
posted by blob at 3:25 PM on April 18, 2020

Ah. The Pluto TV channel (which offers a variety of other channels inside this channel) has the Eleven Sports channel as one of its listings.

I'm in the USA, but I don't see any indications that this is USA only...

Good luck
posted by blob at 3:40 PM on April 18, 2020

A quick search in the Roku International Channels Store page for "Taiwan" gets me "SlingTV Taiwanese" (which is a subscription channel that costs money) and "Taiwan TV" (which seems to be free.)

No idea how likely it is that either of those will carry baseball, sorry.
posted by soundguy99 at 8:36 AM on April 19, 2020