Customer Reviews for Roku - Streaming Stick - Purple/Black
Customer Rating
5
on August 27, 2014
Posted by: maccy
from Long Beach, Mississippi, United States
Gender:Female
My husband and I love this little stick. We are 'old-school' and perhaps 'electronically challenged", but found the easy installation and use of our Roku such a pleasure! We used to mail Netflix movies, but we are enjoying watching shows on demand! Thanks for a great product!
Great product. I wish it was easier to travel with, meaning easy to pair with a new network using only the stick and my iPhone as the remote. Currently you have to have the stand alone remote to set-up the stick on a new wifi network.
I've had this a few months now and it has exceeded my expectations. I love it and consider it to be one of the best, smartest purchases that I have made in recent years. It works extremely well and is very reliable. There are many available channels that I can use with my Roku, so I'm never without something interesting to watch. As an Amazon Prime member, I also have a gargantuan selection of stuff to watch from that. I canceled my cable TV subscription because of this device, and I save about $50 per month. The benefits far, far, far outweigh the cons in my opinion.
We have been talking about getting rid of cable and getting the roku for months. Glad we finally did it! We thought there would be a bunch of stuff we would miss, but even the stuff we can't get anymore isn't noticed because there is so much else.
I was hesitant to buy this because I do not have a hi speed internet connection but the movies play very well even without this feature. I do have an occasionally dropout of my internet connection which is very annoying but after resetting my router every thing seems to work okay. I did not have this problem before adding the Roku device to my router network. Also when I look at my network connections on my computers there seems to be two Roku connections and perhaps this is the cause of the problem.
It is a lot of performance and features for the money. Easy set up. Plays HD and HDX video without problem (provided the internet connection is fast where you are using it)
I should have gotten a Roku years ago. I cut my cable and now enjoy my favorites with Roku. It was so easy to install and use. It was simple to synch my laptop with my tv. And I am a Senior Citizen of 65!