I've been debating on getting the Roku for about a year when I saw the Streaming Stick came out. For the price I decided to take the plunge and bought it. It is a great device. Easily fits into one of my HDMI ports and I have no problems with streaming shows from it.
This Roku HDMI Streaming Stick is slow and takes time to boot up, when it came out i thought it was gointo be a good Product but no i don't recommend this Roku. The Roku 3 is way better and fast, perfect HD stream if you have the best internet connection 3/mbs or more. I recommend Roku 3 if you plan to buy it supports USB,1TB Usb Drive, and Video Codec is Mkv(H.264) Audio (FLAC Or ACC) for all the down loader out there just go check it out way better.
I bought every device. This one is very easy to use. Though this one processes differently, it has the best selection by far. On top of that, your issues will be minimal. You may think that the issue is with Roku, but I found out it was the Wifi provider the hard way. I initially left a bad review because the WIFI providers blame all the streaming devices. Wrong. Roku could improve customer service as it is sometime difficult to understand them, but overall this is better than all the dongles and the other proprietary devices.