I bought my Roku Streaming Stick about 1 month ago, I for the most part, I've been quite happy with it. There are MANY different choices of things to watch, TV shows, as well as, movies. The wide variety of genera of the movies is great! This holds true for the TV programs, as well. My one complaint would be that for no apparent reason, I've had to pair my remote to my TV MANY different times. I've even had to reboot my streaming stick just to get things working again. This has been a minor annoyance as my remote will just stop working, even while I'm in the middle of searching through the various programs. I have a friend who has the exact same streaming stick as I do, & they have had to do the same thing, though not as frequently as I have had to do to mine.
I recently bought the Roku stick for our new living room TV which is wall mounted. I have been using Roku 3 with a TV in another room (also wall-mounted) without any problems at all and love it. Problem I am seeing with the Roku stick is that it doesn't seem to "read" the signals from the remote as quickly and I frequently have to move the remote around alot to find the "sweet spot" for the requested action to happen. Maybe the remote unit we have is bad. Can you suggest something? So to skip ahead to the next question - would I recommend to a friend? My answer is yes with the Roku 3 unit, no if they are planning to purchase the stick.
I bought my Roku stick approx. 2 months ago, I really liked it but as of lastnight the remote wont work even with brand new batteries! So now I'm not sure how I feel about it.
We have had problems with the Roku stick. It keeps freezing up on us. We've replaced it twice, but keep having the same issues after a period of time. It works fine for a month or so, then starts acting up and eventually stops working all together.
I've had a Roku 2 for 2yrs and it's been very good. But when it "died" I tried this "Streaming Stick" and it is even better. I may even buy another just to take with me on trips.