Customer Reviews for Roku - Streaming Stick - Purple/Black
Customer Rating
3
Love Roku, but suggest the pucks instead.
on August 15, 2015
Posted by: Joe A
from Virginia, United States
Gender:Female
The Streaming stick is OK for casual use or if you have no place to store a puck (eg. using a wall mounted TV). But it is slow, and finicky. I often have to hit a button several times to get it to work, which is strange given the "point anywhere" technology the remote is supposed to use. The remote also sticks sometimes. Hit the forward or backward button once and sometimes it just keeps running. The low tech Roku 1 doesn't have any of these issues, as long as you're aiming at the puck, and seems faster than the stick, and is priced similarly (although you do need to buy an HDMI cable, like with all the pucks). Overall I like it a lot more. I also have one of the new 3s and it is awesome, but more expensive.
The hardware works good and is responsive when using apps to browse whatever your trying to do with it, but the specs could be beefed up a little bit as far as ram and so forth. Also, wish it supported things like kodi or formally xbmc, but all in all great unit and does a better job for miracast than fire tv stick can do ever.
Been with roku since the beginning and they never fail to deliver. I bought the streaming stick because of the compact design. It's perfectly portable for when I'm having to work overnight oncalls or going on vacation. This device is a constant companion now!
I have the Amazon Fire Stick, Google Chromecast, and now Roku streaming stick. By far the Roku is the best. My husband loves it. We use all the time.It is very user friendly.