Customer Reviews for Roku - Streaming Stick - Purple/Black
Customer Rating
2
Functional but slow; needs resets on MNF
on October 27, 2015
Posted by: stevejobs
from San Francisco, CA, United States
Gender:Male
Does the job. Selecting a 'channel is slow. Using it with Sling for Monday Night Football and some other channels on Sling is frustrating. The thing seems to require a reset after commercials on ESPN. I don't like doing this. Probably better off just running Sling off of a laptop and connect it to the TV. Also the unit gets hot and probably uses up power even when the tv is off (not sure).
Decided to give the Roku Stick a chance since it was s cheaper option than AppleTV, and while Roku offers so many channels, they load a little slow. The worst part is the remote. It eats batteries. And they're Energizer, not some cheap store brand.
The product is very nice. The remote control is a big differential with other competitors. Hard to configure, but easy to use. I think it should come with earphones and game support.
i bought this Roku stick a few months back. i took it on vacation just in case. the local cable company didnt have all the channels i wanted so i was able to hook this up, enter the wifi password and i was off to watching whatever i wanted!