Customer Reviews for Roku - Streaming Stick - Purple/Black
Customer Rating
4
Great content
on January 19, 2015
Posted by: Dan B
from Dayton, OH, United States
Gender:Male
I bought the Roku stick. It is my third Roku so obviously I like the Roku. With it's content, I could eliminate my cable TV. The Stick works well. One minor concern is the response time to the remote. I wish it would get me a better audio feedback to let me know it received the input and is working. The stick is a little slower to respond.
More or less flipped a coin with respect to which streamer to use. The Roku stick plugged right in - connected easily to my wifi. Great, simple interface. Good content choices. We're Amazon Prime and Play users, and both are included and work well. Another step toward dumping cable.
I bought this about a month ago and really like it. It's quick and easy to use and I can move it to all my different TV's. The reason I only gave it 4 stars is because it streams all the time. I went over my internet the first month I had it (halfway through the month) and I have never come close to using all the internet. I upgraded to 250GB instead of the 150GB and haven't had any problems since. When I was asking my internet provider why I was using so much she said that I was currently (while we were on the phone and I wasn't watching anything) streaming 44 HD videos. I started unplugging it when we weren't using it. Also, you have to pay for a lot of the tv shows/seasons.
Device is occasionally unreliable.... there are occasions when the audio goes mad and sounds like the audio has been slowed waaaaaay down. I also believe these services should offer at least one live national and local news and weather option in the event of natural disaster or emergency situations.
Got this for my wife as a Christmas present.. took an ordinary tv, that had been only hooked up basic cable, and it was transformed into a TV able to watch almost ANY channel! Love this thing!!!
I am so impressed with the versatility of this unit and very happy with the day to day performance. I had one glitch with the remote, but a tech at Roku helped me solve it