Customer Reviews for Roku - Streaming Stick - Purple/Black
Customer Rating
4
It's a Roku
on August 27, 2014
Posted by: msmanasse
from San Francisco, CA, United States
Gender:Male
I've had my streaming stick for a few weeks now, and, other than being considerably slower than my Roku 3, it's a Roku. The remote works quite well despite the unit being hidden behind my TV; the casting features work nicely, and all my Roku channels work just fine. The need to add power is a bit annoying, but hopefully goes away with next-generation HDMI sets.
I've had two of the desktop style units but my cat decided that I needed to get a different style (stupid cat)! I love it, and my cat doesn't chew on it!!!
The product works perfectly. Only downside is my tv has an indent for USB items that isn't quite as long as this stick is, so fitting it in securely was a bit of a pain.
We use the Roku on a TV that has no Cable box its great we get Netflix and watch movies- it seamless- we choose it over the Google stick because Roku has a clicker- I'd buy it again. We also have iTV from Apple on other TVs we also like it- the Roku is 1/2 the price
Originally I bought my Roku because it had Acorn TV access. I wanted to be able to access all the great British TV. It has been worth it to me just for that one station but i have found many other things also. Definitely a great buy.
I am a big fan of Roku products in general so this review is hard to write. We bought the streaming stick for use in another room and it was by the far the worst roku we have had. Sent it back and got another and within 1 month that one was having all sorts of problems as well. Again love Roku in general but can't recommend the stick