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Amazon Instant Video is the reason the Roku stick is plugged into the TV and not the Chromecast.

• officemonkey 11y ago
  Roku seems to be supporting everything I can think of except iTunes store movies/tv. I know each company has their own product, but supporting all the popular formats/apps would really mean the best platform wins. After all, is Roku _really_ the best product?
  • kbenson 11y ago
    > After all, is Roku _really_ the best product? Well, it's not bad at all, it's cheap, it comes with a massive amount of content, it doesn't require a phone or tablet, and it comes with a remote. Considering the market... maybe?
  • polishninja 11y ago
    Compared to the "smart" Samsung TV I bought, the Roku is great. It's fast and supports all the major formats. The not so smart TV software is horrible. If I pause anything it basically crashes, and it takes 6 min from boot to wifi connection. For Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Google Play it works great.
  • sroerick 11y ago
    It doesn't support YouTube.
    • kbenson 11y ago
      Apparently it does, but only on recent revisions of their hardware.[1] I actually have the original youtube channel from way back, before it got pulled from the available channels. it may have been a private channel of someone's and Google didn't like it looking like it was from them, it wasn't even close to parity with youtube phone/web features. 1: https://blog.roku.com/blog/2014/04/22/youtube-update-channel-now-available-to-all-current-generation-devices/ https://blog.roku.com/blog/2014/04/22/youtube-update-channel...
      • officemonkey 11y ago
        My roku is at least three years old and we added the YouTube channel just fine.