PBS Continues The March Into Streaming Programming  Antiques
Roadshow is one of the programs available from PBS's new Roku
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programs available from PBS's new Roku channel.     Let's start
with a brief tour of streaming television online.  For quite a
while, streaming television meant sitting and watching it on
your computer. It wasn't ideal, for obvious reasons. Then, it
got easier to sit and watch it on your phone. That wasn't ideal,
either, if you liked the living-room experience. Tablets do a
better job than phones of delivering a portable but less tiny
experience.  But people who want TV to seem exactly like TV, the
solution is either a smart TV, or some version of a set-top box.
A set-top box might be your existing game console (like an Xbox
or a PlayStation), your existing Blu-ray player, or a standalone
device — most popularly (for the moment) an Apple TV if you're
an Apple person or a Roku or Boxee device if you're not.  A set-
top box uses your