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
1
OK for a While
on February 27, 2014
Posted by: NONE2
from Hawaii
Gender:Male
Worked as advertised for couple times but now with not work at all. If worked it would be worth having however is not working!!!
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting roku.com
Customer Rating
5
Movie City
on February 28, 2014
Posted by: Goggie
from Delaware, United States
Gender:Female
Out of the box and onto the entertainment in minutes. This was a glitch free experience! Got to love it.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting roku.com
Customer Rating
5
on February 28, 2014
Posted by: Fancy
from West Covina, CA, United States
Gender:Female
I decided to cut the cord with cable.. Very small investment for my Roku.. The overall savings is amazing.. Purchase a Roku for $99.00 t Tax and a $20.00 antenna and save over $1000.00 a year.. Make the break from cable and watch wonderful movies and documentaries..
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting roku.com
Customer Rating
4
Great Product, Still Tied to Cable
on February 28, 2014
Posted by: Riprock
from West Sacramento, CA, United States
Gender:Male
Works great! Great picture. Great operability. Not great when I add channels that require me to enter my cable company to watch them... when my cable company isn't listed. Sigh.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting roku.com
Customer Rating
5
I was skeptical...
on March 2, 2014
Posted by: adamm
from Riverview, FL, United States
Gender:Male
...but this little box is quite amazing to say the least. Not only does it give you access to a lot of paid content (I subscribe to Hulu), but it also gives you a few great free options as well. The History Channel and AE are 100% free channels and give you quite a bit of on-demand HD content. Combine that with Hulu and we were able to 'cut the cord' so to speak. A lot of people think that Hulu's TV selection is rather limited, but it's really not. No, it doesn't have any and every show you could possible want, but you will find many shows you didn't even think you could watch on TV anymore. I kid you not, I was watching Xena the Warrior Princess the other day... Guess I had a nostalgic moment there, but point is they have stuff like that, and not just 1 or 2 episodes but the entire series. We only pay for internet now and cut our monthly bill by about 25% from having the internet/phone/tv combo deal and get a lot more. We have good cell phones, so who really needs a home phone nowadays? We also invested in a $30 over-the-air HDTV antenna and are able to get most of the big local TV channels (Fox, ABC, etc) for free. Oh, another great thing is this channel called the 'The Nowhere Man' that lets you watch MOST downloaded content via a USB hard drive at up to 1080p resolution. It isn't a replacement for the dedicated media players like the Asus O!Play, but it does a nice job with most of the stuff I throw at it. I think honestly it just doesn't have the codecs to play everything - which is ok because I didn't buy it for that.
Now for a bit of technical talk: Yes, there are many, many devices that support Hulu and Netflix now, but the problem is the wireless. Xbox, PS3, and most of those types of devices only have single band wifi capability and they really aren't that fast. Roku 3 is dual-band and is designed to be very fast for streaming. Combined with our wireless N dual-band router, we are able to get most Hulu content streamed in full 1080p with 0 hiccups. We have a 50/25mbps connection, but you could probably get 1080p on a 10-15mbps downstream connection over wireless as long as it is wireless N.
Bottom line, we bought our Roku 3 for $90 and it will pay for itself in less than 4 months. Can't beat that right?
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting roku.com
Customer Rating
5
Bye-bye Cable "Silver" Package!
on March 4, 2014
Posted by: CiaSch
from Long Beach, WA
Why did I wait so long? After one evening of poking around Roku3 offerings and using my Netflix and Amazon Prime memberships I called my cable provider and downgraded from the "Silver" package (included HBO/Showtime) to extended basic saving me $30/month. I wish is Doggie Channel wasn't $10/month and more local news were added.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting roku.com
Customer Rating
5
Bought it for viewing Netfliks
on March 4, 2014
Posted by: john123
from Lake Havasu Cioty
Gender:Male
Still can't believe how easy to install and how well it works. An a-one product.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting roku.com
Customer Rating
5
Awesome
on March 5, 2014
Posted by: susanls57
from Henderson, NV, United States
Gender:Female
Absolutely love my Roku. Does everything I want. I especially love the fact that I can plug my earphones into the remote! But it does go through batteries quickly doing that!
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting roku.com