Customer Reviews for Roku - Streaming Stick - Purple/Black
Customer Rating
5
Excellent for Traveling
on October 10, 2015
Posted by: Proverbial Preacher
from Grand Rapids, MI, United States
Gender:Male
I own three other Roku 3's for use at home. So I purchased this Roku Stick because I travel quite a bit. I love it because it is compact, easy to carry in my bag, not bulky, and just as easy to use at the Roku players I use at home.
I purchased the Roku Stick a few months ago with the intention of using it in my office/craft room. Unfortunately it only seems to work half the time. I am using WiFi to clarify but we have a very good connection with all of the other electronics we stream with so as far as I am concerned, this should be no exception. We have two other Roku 1's and they work fine 90% of the time. It glitches out quite a bit and locks up to the point of having to take out the batteries and syncing the two pieces together again to get it to work. Overall, I may return it and simply purchase one of the other units or try an amazon fire stick.
I bought this a little over a motnh ago in order to be able to watch SlingTV on my TV in the bedroom. In the meantime I have discovered several new channels that are free that allows me to tailor what i watch. Due to having a TV that is over 5 years old and the HDMI input is in the back of the TV, I do find that the ROKU routinely doesn't receive input from the remote.
Love that it just plugs right in the back of the tv without needing another box & cables to deal with. I wish it was a little more quickly responsive, but I understand the pricier models have the faster processors... no biggie. The remote is great. It'd be kinda cool if you could choose which apps were on the bottom shortcut buttons.