I received my roku streaming stick for Christmas and so far I'm really not impressed. It takes forever for the thing to load Netflix or any episode on Amazon instant video. It will start to play an episode and sometimes it will stop to load the episode as it plays several times making watching a 22 minute long episode almost an hour. I'm giving this 2 stars because I'm not sure if my internet connection is an issue. I have the streaming stick in my bedroom upstairs while the modem and everything is downstairs in the living room. I know I would absolutely love this product if it would work properly.
I got a Roku for Christmas and I love it! Watching Netflix is the best! Roku also has several free channels. They do have commercials, but there is a huge variety of channels from comedy channels, horror channels, exercise channels etc. It is very easy to set up and use.
Got this as a gift and I am exploring it - so far so good. My only exceptions are when I add a new channel or service it doesn't work - then I have to pull the plug on my modum and go back through it all- magically it works. Happened 2-3 times.