The Latest Content Streaming Provider For Australians, Presented By Roku and Telstra

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Now Australians have another option to stream all the past episodes of Breaking Bad.

Recently, Telstra announced it has partnered with the U.S.-based company Roku, which makes digital set top boxes that supply one point of access to apps, channels and streaming platforms, to launch Telstra TV. Available from September, Telstra TV will offer customers one handy point of access to home-grown streaming platforms Presto and Stan, TV catchup services, BigPond Movies, as well international streaming player, Netflix.

“Rather than restrict our customers’ choices, we want to host all the popular streaming video services on our platforms and make it easy for them to get all the content they want in the one place,” Joe Pollard, group managing director at Telstra, said in a statement.

Telstra TV will only be available to Telstra fixed broadband customers and users will still have to pay subscription fees to the streaming services, although they will possibly be available for a bundled price down the track, a Telstra spokesperson confirmed to Mashable Australia.

Roku is hugely popular in the United States, with more than 10 million players sold, and is integrated directly with TV sets made by manufacturers HiSense, Insignia, Haier and TCL. The Roku 2 device will be rebranded in Australia as Telstra TV, and Telstra is working with Roku to bring Australian customers the variety of apps the company has approval for in the U.S market.

In the U.S., the latest Roku device, the Roku 3, is available for $99.99 (A$136.13), and offers users access to content such as Netflix, HBO Go and Hulu. Although the Roku 3 is not officially for sale in Australia, various online forums detail how Australians can get their hands on and use the device.

Pricing and further content details for Telstra TV will be available closer to launch