Customer reviews from roku.com
Roku - 3 Streaming Player - Black
Average customer rating
4.5
(25,979 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 25,979 reviews
5 Stars
16,895
4 Stars
6,203
3 Stars
1,513
2 Stars
668
1 Star
700
93%of customers recommend this product.
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23,564 out of
25,460)
Customer Reviews for Roku - 3 Streaming Player - Black
Customer Rating
5
Improved Your Leisure Time
on December 17, 2013
Posted by: bohemima
from Alabama, United States
Gender:Female
From the amazingly simple installation through ease of use to the nearly endless variety of movies, t.v. shows and even how-to guides, this is a startlingly good product.
Like to watch shows at your own pace? Sometimes want to stop and pick it up later? Enjoy choosing from a n array of free shows? Then this is for you.
I lave Amazon Prime anyway, so no added cost there. The only thing I added was Netflix Streaming, @ less than $9 per month. I can't believe how much this has added to my viewing pleasure.
Some movies are charged at $2 -4 for rental. Completely worth it.
Highly recommended.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting roku.com
Customer Rating
5
Powerful Little Box
on December 17, 2013
Posted by: dee914
from Citrus Heights, CA
Gender:Female
I bought this to replace a Vizio blu ray player that was slow. I never used the blu ray so I just wanted a device I could use to stream. This device is super small and much, much faster than my old player. I love that I can plug headphones into the remote control. A super cool feature that enables my daughter and I to sit in the same room and enjoy TV and computer at the same time without disturbing each other.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
5
Wish I had purchased this a LONG time ago!
on December 17, 2013
Posted by: CMWBDS
from Willoughby, OH, United States
Gender:Male
Easy to install. Simple to use. I have dramatically reduced my cable bill with this little gem! New channels are added often, many for free! I wish I had purchased this a LONG time ago. VERY satisfied user.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
5
The best internet media player around
on December 17, 2013
Posted by: bigdog660
from Knoxville, TN, United States
Gender:Male
The Roku 3 is the best internet media player around, hands down. Tons of channels to choose from. From a church prospective, Right Now Media has created a channel which makes it a breeze to choose the sermons and lesson available. By adding the Plex channel, you can listen to music and view movies, TV shows, and photos from your computer or NAS. The only negative is Roku does not support Xvid/DivX in a AVI file. All your movies/shows must be MPEG 4 part 10 (AKA H.264 or AVC) in a MP4 or MKV container. If you have a bunch of AVI files like me, you must either let Plex Server transcode the files on the fly, or convert the files yourself. You must make sure the computer you are using is powerful enough to transcode in real time. This problem could be alleviated if the Roku would support the AVI container and the DivX/Xvid (AKA MPEG4 Part 2/ASP/H.263). Finally, I am hopeful that Roku will also decode HVEC/H.265 video and Opus audio in the near future as they are the newest codecs delivering high quality audio and video with the smallest use of bandwidth.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
5
Saving money, choosing what I want! GREAT product!
on December 17, 2013
Posted by: LoveRoku3
We have been a Roku family since the beginning. We have upgraded to Roku three and still LOVE it! We are saving $1300 a year in cable. Roku is truly TV your way! ROKU 3 is the best unit so far, with the ear piece and super speed, it is just fantastic! We have been giving these away as gifts and helping others save money. Many free options and they now have a YouTube channel for additional content. We have added a couple of pay channels like Netflix which expands our choices. I am a news junkie and I love SkyNews and other channels around the globe. I also enjoy watching live news in other states in the US.... I was sick of the bills, sick of commercials and sick of the cord. I take my unit with me on vacations and if there is a fast Wifi signal I am good to go!!! I am NEVER going back to cable.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting roku.com
Customer Rating
5
Better than a VCR or DVD or CABLE
on December 19, 2013
Posted by: puppenhead
from San Francisco, CA, United States
Gender:Male
I remember when I was 19 and our first VCR was brought into the house back in 1982, a large Toshiba with a remote that had a cable connecting it to the unit. The controls were simple: play, stop, rewind, fast forward, and record.
It was heavy, it was expensive, and it took VHS tapes. The very idea of the VCR was tied directly to the notion that television was the main form of entertainment. Television came to the house via the airwaves, and the VCR let you record those events and watch them later. Rented tapes let you augment the broadcast experience. Making your own entertainment with porta-paks (VCRs with cameras attached, basically) was another form of entertainment, as was connecting a computer like an Acorn Electron or a Commodore Amiga to the back of the VCR with a cable was another. Today, the Internet is the source of entertainment for more and more people. Could it be that the 'net is the source of entertainment for MOST people now?
The internet took time to develop as such a a dominant and ubiquitous form of entertainment. It began as a non-commercial form of exchange between government officials and scholars who wanted to annotate documents. A noble aim. As compression technologies and bandwidth have increased since the early 1990s, and accelerated in the past five years, now over half of the internet traffic, some have argued, is taken up by Netflix and Youtube. Video streaming is demanding on bandwidth, and there is massive demand.
Part of this demand is the rise of the dedicated set-top-box media stream player. Such a player is the Roku3.
The Roku3 media streaming player works right out of the box. I was surprised at first by how small it was, expecting anything that connects to a TV to be much bigger.
Roku players connect directly to your TV and to your high-speed Internet service via your home network.
1. A TV
2. HDMI cable for high definition.
3. Broadband Internet connection with a Wi-Fi router.
2. HDMI cable for high definition.
3. Broadband Internet connection with a Wi-Fi router.
There are no recurring fees for using our players, and every player is packed with hundreds of free channels to enjoy right out of the box. While we don’t charge a monthly subscription, some the Roku partners do. You choose what you pay for and what you don’t. You access your existing subscriptions like Netflix, Hulu Plus or MLB.TV, all the usual providers.
Pandora, SOMA FM and Spotify are there, as is a useful USB player app that lets you play directly from any compatible USB drive, effectively turning the ROKU3 into personal media player.
I recommend the ROKU 3.
Here is the link to the Roku3 website
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Customer Rating
5
Easy to set up
on December 23, 2013
Posted by: HoPaint
from Grapevine, TX, United States
Gender:Female
I am not good with technology devices and thought my husband would be doing the set up on this. But, he was working overtime and I went ahead and did it. Easy and worked as promised first time.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
5
Always something to watch NO COMMERCIALS!
on December 23, 2013
Posted by: JoyceTobyTodd
from Boston, MA, United States
Gender:Female
I bought my first ROKU in 2010 - it's still working GREAT but I am adding a TV to the household so I splurged on the new ROKU 3 - the PBS content available on '3' is SO worthwhile - plus all the things I love about ROKU's interface and channel availability. PERSONALLY - I only pay a subscription fee for Netflix and Amazon Prime - and yet I have about a DOZEN other ROKU channels that I regularly check/follow for content. NO commercials - is FABULOUS and the on demand availability of high quality content is amazing. I highly recommend ROKU!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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