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Pros & Cons
Pros
Bought this guy a couple years ago. Loving my roku. Roku keeps excluding features with each upgrade. This is one product you will not regret owning.
Amazon vod works very well on this. Other good channels are ora tv, esp if you miss larry king, and crackle is streaming * seinfeld's comics in cars series.
Cons
It was kind of a pain to get wifi working at first. Roku technical support consists of a hapless chat utility. You can't simply run the ethernet from your modem to the roku - you have to have a separate router and two more ethernet cords.
This seems to be a well-documented problem on the roku support forums going back to 2008. I spend 2 weeks including long support from tech person from roku ( which was very nice and helpfull) but could not solve it. Their shrug me off/ignore me.
Check out the deception for yourself (only visible after purchase). Otherwise they're certain to wallow in mediocrity until someone eats their lunch.
Roku is fast morphing into another cable - goodbye. It is only ok when it comes to streaming.
Highlights
Quality
Great product roku makes streaming easy lots of apps to play with
Excellent condition i still have it and i bought it a few years back
The original roku even had an optical out and i wish the newer ones did
Blows apple tv out of the water
Price
We are so much happier and it reduced our costs dramatically
Shipping
I got it within a week of ordering it
We got it along time ago worked fine but havent used it much lately
Packaging/appearance
In its original box with the manual and everything was wrapped up not just placed in the box i bought it used
Competitiveness
I have had it for 4 years now and it still works perfectly sometimes it gets stuck but compared to apple tv its a way better buy i think
This investment plus the two other channels of amazon prime and netflix entertains the whole family and allows us to keep a clo... Read More
This older version does not have any fancy keyboard and the ui can be a bit slow compared to using to more expensive devices li... Read More
Its a bit slower than the others due to technology
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 77.1% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 1,237 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 22 2024.
Helpful InsightsBETA
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Still working as of april 2018
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Great product except it only has about a 45 year life before a forced upgrade
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Its been years since i bought this and never left a review
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Mostly use it for streaming netflix
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Runs ok but if you use the earbuds it eats the batteries
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Make sure you have plenty of aas on hand
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Unit gets hot to the touch also
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Otherwise it works as expected
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