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The big winner in this would seem, to me, to be Roku - one of those rare cases where being independent actually helps.
by inthewoods 9y ago
The big winner in this would seem, to me, to be Roku - one of those rare cases where being independent actually helps.
- chrisper 9y agoSadly not available outside of the US.
- sapphire_tomb 9y agoUK here. I have several Roku devices.
- chrisper 9y agoHmm. Did you buy it officially or did you import it?
- dhoulb 9y agoIt’s 100% available in the UK. Bought one officially from Amazon. Not imported.
- kawsper 9y agoIt did not use to be 100% available, Roku denied for a long time ship their Roku Streaming Stick 3600 to the UK. So you had to find a person that had bought it in the US, or trick them into sending it to you. When I asked support about it they said "The 3600R is not supported in the UK, so I'm afraid it will not work", however it is now selling on Amazon. Some believed that it was because of Sky having a deal with Roku (Sky has invested in Roku), and because of that they wanted to brand their own Rokus, or something like that. I am glad that they have since come to their senses and agreed to sell Rokus in the UK.
- tym0 9y agoI know it is at least available in the UK and France.
- lixardz 9y agoroku 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?
- jitix 9y agoOr nvidia. Shield tv is awesome. They inked out separate deal with amazon for prime video and other amazon stuff on android.