Customer Reviews for Roku - Streaming Stick - Purple/Black
Customer Rating
5
Great Product.
on August 27, 2014
Posted by: Anton97
from Detroit, MI, United States
Gender:Male
I currently have a Roku3 in my living room that I absolutely love. Then I bought the Roku stick for my son's bedroom. After the easy set up, I played around with it so I could show him how to use it. It's just like the Roku3, just has a slower processor so it lags a little during navigation,But it's half the price, so you have to expect it. Overall, I'm very satisfied with my purchase.
After setting up Ruku and using it for seveal weeks we canceled Dish and have not missed it. That was 6 montes ago. Ruku along with Hulu and Netflix has already saved us hundreds of dollars.
Where I live we don't get the real high speed connections like most of you do. However, even with slower download and upload speeds, this seems to do the trick. I'm so pleased with Roku, I'm now not attached to NETWORK propaganda and their never ending advertising. First of all we pay way to much to just watch TV, then we have the never never ending stream of advertisements - just to make the networks richer and richer. Now I can watch TV all day and all night without the never ending network advertisements. This little device is just what I needed, and I'm real happy with it.
I bought this when it first came out to replace an original Roku in my exercise room. The hdmi feature is great and the fact that it doesn't require a power supply (if you have a usb jack on your tv). The remote will sometimes be a bit sluggish in responding to commands. I'm sure a Roku 3 with a wired connection would probably blow this away, but I didn't need to spend $100 and I wanted to get rid of the wires.
I do also have a Chromecast, but I don't use it nearly as often as the Roku stick. The interface on the TV with a small hand held remote works better for me.