Customer Reviews for Roku - Streaming Stick - Purple/Black
Customer Rating
3
on August 30, 2015
Posted by: Chipsweeper61
from Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Gender:Male
Good overall but 3 irritating faults, 1 the system seems to stop responding to the remote after a while which seems to be solved by removing the batteries and replacing them, 2 the fast forward and rewind buttons are very flakey in YouTube and 3 the remote buttons require a lot of pressure.
Love my streaming stick! I would get another one for the tv in the living room, but I have an older tv there so until I get a new one, I am stuck with the older model. That works well, too.
I have the Roku and it works, but the remote keeps loosing reception with the stick. We take the back off to take out the batteries for the remote to connect. That is frustrating.
I used to love my Roku stick because it was easy to set up, easy to use and the programs were very user friendly (I have an Apple TV too and the Roku format for programs like Hulu and Netflix are easier to use). I used to tell everyone to get it instead of the Roku 3. However, I've had to have it replaced TWO times and the 2nd replacement unit is also starting to fail. I believe the problems are primarily caused by overheating of the Roku stick. I have started unplugging it after use and it seems to have slowed the failure rate, but it's only a matter of time. I have a Roku 3 and aside from the no "sleep" or "off" feature, there are no problems.