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roku is freaking terrible. have you even used one? compared to the seamlessness that chromecast plus the price, why would you use anything else.
by lixardz 9y ago
roku is freaking terrible. have you even used one? compared to the seamlessness that chromecast plus the price, why would you use anything else.
- syshum 9y ago>>seamlessness that chromecast how is it seamless, I want a independent device to watch videos on, not a device that have to connect with my phone, tablet or pc then "cast" video to it. I want a self contained video streaming device with its own physical remote, processor and OS that does not need anything else but a internet connection Roku and FireTV are different classes of Devices than a ChromeCast
- kenning 9y agoThe cool thing about chromecast is that you can drag and drop a video file into chrome and it will play on your tv. I don't want to see ads on youtube, so instead of using the built in chromecast support i just stream the window to my tv with ublock origin installed -- no ads. That's actually all i want, a wireless hdmi cable. But I'm in a tiny minority.
- syshum 9y ago>>I don't want to see ads on youtube That is what a PiHole is for ;)
- kenning 9y agoholy shit this is awesome, thank you
- fahayekwasright 9y agoHave you heard of YouTube Red?
- lixardz 9y agoyou're in like .01% of the population that wants that. the menu's and remote with the roku are horrendous, everything about a roku is terrible. You have log into an account within the 'roku os'. you also have to have the remote on you. I almost always have my phone on me. I'm already signed into all the apps that i want, with a much easier to use keyboard for searching. i tap a button on my screen and it's playing on my tv. The entire experience is 'seamless' just because you like to have 47 extra steps to watch a video doesn't mean that anyone else would like that. Roku is for people who don't know better or are technologically challenged. I mean, if you compared it to the appletv Roku is probably good?
- syshum 9y agoNo expierance with the Roku, I have several FireTV's I also have my phone on me, I still have no desire to use it to control the FireTV when I can just use the arrow keys on the remote, select the video and press play. if I want to search i will use an actual computer and create a playlist or use the 'watch later" flag on youtube and play from that list on the firetv... it is not "47 steps" I find using the phone to be cumbersome and battery draining ohh and I doubt I am in the .01% of normal consumers that want that. I maybe in the .01% of Silicon Valley type Tech people that want that. But your every day consumer, every day moms, dads, grandpa's etc want exactly what I describe, which is why the FireTV is so successful
- deong 9y agoI'm pretty technically savvy, and I almost never want to use my phone as a remote control. Yes, it's almost always with me, but it has to do a lot of stuff. A Roku remote has a big "Netflix" button on it. I press that button. If my phone had a big Netflix button on it, it would be in the way of dealing with Email, texts from my wife, my work calendar, getting the weather, showing me traffic, etc. I always have my car keys handy too, but if I had to tap out morse code on my key fob to watch a Seinfeld rerun, I'd kill a hobo just to feel something again. A dedicated device is sometimes far preferable than a general one.
- wolco 9y agoYou can use your phone with roku too.
- rubyfan 9y agoI love Roku and use it alongside my AppleTV. Haven’t used Chromecast or FireTV as comparisons but I have nothing bad to say about Roku.