Customer Reviews for Roku - Streaming Stick - Purple/Black
Customer Rating
2
Awful remote
on August 14, 2015
Posted by: olddow
from southwest
Gender:Male
The stick works as expected. However the remote is the most awful piece of electronic equipment that I’ve ever used. It only works occasional (after taking the batteries out and resetting it for the umpteenth time). When it does work it is very inefficient, you must scroll thru the channels to get from say CNN to ESPN. Until the remote is fixed I cannot recommend your product.
This was a gift for my birthday about a month ago, and I really like how convenient, transportable, and small it is. It works pretty well too, except I have noticed that mine tends to freeze a lot while I'm watching Netflix, so I have to start the episode over again and find my spot. This never happened before with my old roku, however I still like the product a lot.
The stick suffers from a terrible way to connect to the internet and stay connected. The performance on the stick itself if poor as well. When you are navigating around and trying to use the roku, it constantly gets stuck on screens and the remote doesn't stay synced.
I like Roku's stick, I think it works very good. When I compare it with my Amazon Fire stick I find the Sling TV app run slower in Roku but still acceptable. I don't like the fact that it never turns off. I love the integration with Roku's Windows Phone app and has MLS's soccer app.
I've had my stick for over a month and I'd say it's crashed atleast once almost everyday. I mostly use it to stream Netflix and run into problems whenever I fast forward or rewind. The crashes are also random. Sometimes I can stream for hours, other times I turn it on for the first time all day and it continually reboots! I wouldn't buy the roku stick again.