> And yet you don't see that for some this is in fact a "killer feature" in favor of the Chromecast? For me that is the feature which kills the Chromecast. My

> And yet you don't see that for some this is in fact a "killer feature" in favor of the Chromecast? For me that is the feature which kills the Chromecast. My mother's manual dexterity and mental state are degraded enough that working a smartphone is out of the question. The touchpad Apple TV remote is also too challenging. Until this past Christmas, my girlfriend's children had no tablets of their own with which to control the television. I want to watch something in living room but I left my phone charging in the kitchen. The great thing about a Roku TV is that it works just like a regular TV but with a better UI. My mother could work it after a 30-second explainer -- here's your remote, there's DirectTV Now, there's Plex, press the Home button to get back here. The girlfriend, kids, and random houseguests just grab the remote and go. Everything else the Roku can do via App / Casting is gravy and I could live without any of it. I do appreciate Private Listening tho because it works with whatever output device(s) are available to the device the app is running from -- no extra Bluetooth pairing steps and doing the Which BT device will my headphones end up connecting to when I turn them on? dance.