Hold on now... As a point of order, you HAVE TO HAVE broadband access.
That may be DSL through your phone line, or it may be Cable, or it may be satellite... but broadband access must be there.
There is a distinction between cable internet and CableTV - Two different things. I have cable internet access through Spectrum - But I do not subscribe to their TV option. Two different things. If I put my TV in TV mode, there is nothing but noise. But the internet access is there... I just have to move the TV to HDMI1 for my PC or HDMI2 for ROKU... But none of that would work without the internet access package.
In my case, you could plug ROKU into the phone line all day long and you wouldn't get diddley. Because my internet does not come over the phone copper. it comes over the cable.
@roamer_1 It's been over 10 years and I have chemo brain,so my memory is slightly less than perfect,but from what I REMEMBER,all I did was buy the Roku,go to their web page and sign on and agree to pay them $8.99 per month for their service,which includes paying any fees to other services I subscribe to. Which,of course,they add to my normal monthly service fee of $8.99.
All I really remember doing beyond that was just plugging my ROKU into my phone line and hooking it up to my tv. I use a station splitter because I also have a DVD player and a TV antenna hooked to my tv.
Here is my list of monthly payments as well as the services I subscribe to.
Monthly tv and movie fees:
-21.34 Philo streaming via ROKU 01/26/2021
-74.71 Per Year for Disney Plus Channel-Activated Nov 2020 and pd until Nov 2021.
Disney Plus Yearly - US - Web , ($6.23 per month)
-$8.99 Roku AUTO PAY Fee for ROKU subscription
-$7.46 Roku for BritBox + PP 24 Oct 2019 Pay Pal
-$16.00 for Roku for HBO + 2330 6 Apr 2018 PP
-$8.51 Roku for Hulu PP 24 Oct 2019
-$15.49 Roku for Netflix PP 9 Feb 2022
-$11.73 Roku for Showtime + PP 24 Oct 2019
-$9.60 Roku for Starz + PP 24 Oct 2019
$93.62 per month
-$48.64 VERIZON Due ea mo on the 2nd as of 5 Feb 2018
I subtracted the Verizon fees from the ROKU fees because I was already paying that each month before I got the ROKU.
As you can tell some of these fee rates date back to 2018 and I need to update them,but they really aren't that high. I was paying a HELL of a lot more to Dish Network and getting a hell of a lot less.