I have three Roku players, all perform well. This Streaming stick is nice to carry with me when I travel. I'm taking it overseas soon, it will allow me to watch "my" programs even though I'm out ofthe country. You can't beat that.
Wanted a second roku for bedroom, stick doesn't seem to have wifi range. Moved roku 2 back to bedroom, put stick in living room. Froze up in 3.5 months. Stick was just out of warrenty, roku replaced anyway. Thanks roku!
This particular Roku stick tends to be slow loading (buffering for as much as 2 minutes). At times it does not work at all. We found that disconnecting it from the TV for a few minutes fixes this. It seems to be happening more frequently of late. For this reason I am rating it 3 stars. It is such a pain to remove it every third viewing. Our other Roku sticks work wonderfully. We have never had a problem with them.
I bought two of these, one works great, the other has a serious remote problem right out of the box. The store told me it was user error. It is set up correctly, but only works for a few seconds, take out the battery, put it back in, works once or twice. That's a 50 % failure rate on product reliability.....on had these 3 weeks !!!!
It is constantly trying to reload every show. I have great wifi, and it says that it is connected and the signal strength is good. I do not understand why it keeps doing reloading everything! I just want to watch my shows all the way through! I have a crazy schedule so getting time to sit and watch tv is a blessing, but roku keeps lagging!
I would recommend the Roku 3 before the Streaming Stick only because it starts and responds quicker than the Stick. I am happy with the stick it functions well just slower than the Roku 3