After a few months' use, so far so good, but the stick is definitely slow. We also use the SLING tv app and it's frustratingly slow -- we have 100MB+ internet speed, and on an iPad, the same app works super fast, so I know it's due to the slow processing of the Roku.
I bought the Roku a couple of months ago and could not be happier with my choice. I originally had another product in mind, but saw what the Roku had to offer and decided to go Roku! Boy am I glad I did, the Roku is awesome, so many choices!
The remotes for these are awful. Work very intermittently. Thankful for the Roku app, otherwise it would be useless. If not forbthe remote, easily 5 stars would have been given
I bought the Roku for my son who is a slightly physically challenged and is home all day. Now he has several apps to choose to watch whatever he likes. The cost was reasonable and programming the info was easy was was viewing the one of the apps I downloaded and am very pleased with the Roku.
The streaming stick seems to work fairly well but while watching programming it seems to buffer and load quite a bit can take up to two and a half hours to watch a one hour show not sure has anything to do with the player itself. It might be my Wi-Fi
I actually discontinued my cable. I bought an antenna for the local channels, so I can get the "Local" news. Have had to "reset" it or disconnect it a few times to get it operating again.