I've always just had an antenna. The wind blew it cattywampus and I haven't fixed it so have had no tv except to stream thru my laptop. I'm old Roku and it's open a whole new tv adventure. I love how easy it is to use. The old vintage programs/movies along with the new and live tv. It's very convenient to be able to get all 3 of my early morning news programs in one place.
I got this about a month ago. I am first time Roku user. I use it on a monitor that may be too old for it because I bought this one to be able to use the volume control on the stick but no matter what I do it doesn't work. Other than that I love all the channels I get.
The ROKU box is much better than the new cable boxes our local cable company issued, being smaller, rebooting in about 1/20th of the time after a power outage and with a smaller simpler remote. In addition using the ROKU box to watch cable using the cable company's app allows one to change to streaming of other sources without changing the input on the TV. The only quibble I have is that the remotes tend to be somewhat slippery but that can be fixed by getting a cover, or case, which I've seen available. All in all an excellent product that does what it is expected to do