Customer Reviews for Roku - Streaming Stick - Purple/Black
Customer Rating
5
Enjoying it greatly
on September 3, 2015
Posted by: vmherman75
from Annapolis, MD, United States
Gender:Female
I purchased one for myself and another for my sister and her family mainly to access the shows offered by Acorn, netflix and Amazon -- since we have gotten them, have rarely been watching regular tv.
The idea of having no more cables is good by having this plug directly in HDMI. However, the device is low on memory and crashes now and then.... The remote stops working after couple of days and you have to throw out the batteries....
Since using my Roku streaming stick, I can eliminate some of the extra channels that I have been subscribing to by my cable company, decreasing my cable bill by about $90 per month.
Bought the streaming stick recently. From box to use in less than 5 minutes. It helped that I already own 2 other Roku's. One disappointment with the technology is the fact that you still need external power source to run. Even though my TV has a USB port, there was not enough power to run the Roku Stick, so another cord to the power outlet. You would think that TV manufacturers would have additional power ports on the back of the TV by now......