This completes Roku's set of all the "majors" in streaming at long last. The channel is only on the newest and most expensive Roku 3 for now, and will filter to the ones with car and truck-style descriptors (LT, XS, etc) next year.
Electric Shadow
YouTube to Add Premium Paid Channels
We'll see if this actually works. No one is used to spending money on YouTube, and it'll take very enticing content and drastically improved queue management for it to catch on at all.
"The Strain" Motion Comic on Geek & Sundry
MTV Geek reports that in advance of the recently-announced TV deal for The Strain, co-created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, it's coming to Geek & Sundry in another form as of tomorrow. I've been a big fan of what they've done with their premium YouTube channel thus far, and this looks to continue that trend nicely.