roku?

Glaucus · 18 Oct 2016 at 15:42

currently have a amazon firestick, but it is way under powered. menu is slow, some apps like iplayer have voice sync issues, and generally its pretty rubbish, pretty sure its all due to an under powered chip.

is the roku2 or 3 far more powerful and actually work probably? other benefit is Roku has nowtv.

or any other similar devices.
amazon video, Netflix, nowtv, and normal channel on demand ones.

Glaucus · 18 Oct 2016 at 21:15

Sounds like the onboard at to go, yeah I can plug it into the router, but WiFi isn't the issue. Even the home screen is slow and laggy. Once things are playing its fine. Just the slow menus are doing my head in.

Glaucus · 20 Oct 2016 at 17:37

is 4205eu the most recent release?

Glaucus · 20 Oct 2016 at 17:52

thanks, a few 2nd hand on ebay, might get one for cheap if I'm lucky.

Glaucus · 11 Jun 2017 at 16:16

Cheemag said:
Fine so far, but the Web lacks a list of what can be viewed here in Europe. I'd prefer this device as I want to keep Google out
of my life as far as possible, so their streamer is out.

My TV is HD, Internet connectable via HDMI/Ethernet but isn't a smart TV.

So far I have been unable to find anything which explains how Roku works.

Have we the UK catchup channels? French TV, (BFM etc), German TV ?

why resurrect such an old thread?

Glaucus · 12 Jun 2017 at 09:18

jpaul said:
re-using threads is the green approach ... it was only Oct 2016

[ It is ironic that many of the new threads could incestuously be answered by searching OC forums, often forget to look myself
there is a definite groundhog day element / "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" ]

it wasn't re-use though. it was answering the original post. Which has happened a lot recently.

why bump old threads just to respond to the original post, if asking new questions or similar that's different.