I tried the Fire Stick first. Really easy to set up. However because my TV is on the second floor of the house and my router as well as access point are in the basement my wifi signal is not stable enough. The Fire Stick would show the screen freeze a lot. This $99 has memory so it streams to the device first and basically stores some of the show there first so it can smooth out what you are viewing. Hope that made sense. Anyway, it solved my problem with my home set up causing dropped signal. It was worth the extra in my case. However my daughter has the Fire Stick. It works great for her. But she is in the same room with the router.