The trial, seemingly targeted to cord-cutters and video customers who are looking to avoid set-top box fees, centers on the MSO’s TWC TV app for the Roku platform, which provides access to more than 300 live TV channels, plus about 20,000 free and subscription VOD choices from the operator’s on-demand vault. Like Time Warner Cable’s regular TWC TV app for Roku, the version featured in the NYC trial does not support transactional VOD or a DVR features. But Roku does provide those TWC customers access to a platform that supports a massive number of OTT “channels,” including Hulu, Crackle, Netflix, and Amazon Video.
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