With great apps, Roku has become the king of streaming video. Its search function defeats most competitors, and its interface can be customized to add the various applications you want.
The old Roku Stick was once my favorite video device, mainly because it can implement Roku's service at the cheapest price. Its compact design also makes people love it. You can tuck it into a place that is not visible on the back of your TV, and you can easily carry it in your pocket at any time. However, the old Roku Stick did not respond quickly enough, especially when dealing with some complex applications.
The new Roku Streaming Stick will start selling on April 20, and it will run as fast as the Roku 2 and Roku 3 TV boxes. Although it is not equipped with a headphone jack and voice search function on Roku 3, Roku Streaming Stick can also perform these two functions and it works well.
Unless you are completely satisfied with streaming media devices in your current home, or if you don’t mind paying more for Roku 2’s remote control features, or if you want 4K playback on Roku 4, I’d rather not buy the new Roku Reason for Streaming Stick. Of course, if you buy a lot of apps on iTunes and you want to play games on the big screen with your phone and tablet, then Apple TV is a good choice; if you're fond of playing with your phone better than playing with the remote, then Chromecast is more suitable you. In addition, if you often transmit "files" on your home network, you may also choose products other than Roku.
Now that streaming media devices are more popular than ever before, Roku insists on using the best price to make the best product that meets almost all of the streaming media functionality needs of its users.
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If you think that a device can only achieve powerful features like Roku 2's volume, you are wrong.
Compared to the $50 new Roku Streaming Stick, the only advantage of the $70 Roku 2 is that it has an Ethernet interface. If your home's wireless network is not very good, Roku 2 may be more suitable for you.
In the stable wireless network, the new Roku Streaming Stick's 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz network connections have no problems, video without any delay. As expected, it only took a second or two to complete the video load, but it does not support the AC Wi-Fi standard on Roku 4 and Chromecast.
Roku official said that the new Roku Streaming Stick is equipped with a quad-core processor, which is eight times faster than the old model. I compared the old and new Roku Streaming Stick, Roku 2 and Amazon Fire TV Stick and found that the new application starts much faster than the old one. It is basically the same as Roku 2 and easily defeats Fire TV Stick. The new device runs smoothly in the menu interface and the remote commands respond quickly.
The new Roku Streaming Stick supports power through the TV's USB port, and its boot speed is only 28 seconds, not only defeating the Chromecast (35 seconds), but also defeating the old Roku Stick and Fire TV (both devices have more than 1 boot time minute). Even so, I recommend connecting it to an AC power adapter, which reduces extra startup time.
The new Roku Streaming Stick adapts to the HDMI interface of most TVs, but if your TV's HDMI port is too close to the video wall, you may need an extra cable. Amazon is equipped with a cable for the device, and Chromecast is cleverly designed with built-in cables to solve this problem, and Roku needs to be equipped separately.
It should be noted that the new Roku Streaming Stick comes with a remote control. Perhaps more users like to control via iPhone or Android phone, but in fact this remote control is also quite easy to use. Its design is concise and clear, you can use it for menu navigation and basic transmission control. The remote control uses a Wi-Fi connection instead of an infrared connection, so you can control the device without facing the TV.
The powerful remote headset
The "Private Listening" feature is one of Roku's most popular features. Simply plugging the headset into the remote control will automatically mute the TV and play it only through the headset. The new Roku Streaming Stick's remote does not support this feature, but it can be solved by the application.
Open the Roku app on your phone, insert the headset, and a small headset icon will appear on the screen. When I mute the TV volume, the sound will be heard from the headphones. Once a call comes in, the video played on the TV is automatically paused and resumes after the call ends.
However, when using a Bluetooth headset, the picture and sound are out of sync. In contrast, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV have good support for Bluetooth headsets and can achieve "private listening" without application support.
Powerful application support
Streaming media devices on the market currently support mainstream video applications. These applications include Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, HBO, Showtime, Watch ESPN, Plex, and PBS Kids. Roku's application support is more complete. Unlike Apple TV, Chromecast/Android TV, it supports Amazon Video Services.
Of course, Roku’s application support is not perfect. In addition to iTunes, Roku lacks support for some of the more important applications such as Starz, PlayStation Vue and file sharing application Kodi.
Roku's search function is still the most powerful, and its search results can show more than 30 services, far beyond other platforms. After you click Search, all the keywords or movies related to the keyword are listed. These programs contain prices. You can single out "free" programs.
However, the Roku system cannot search for content from HBO Now, Showtime, and Showtime Anytime. The current practice of Apple's Apple TV does not display any video content from paid channels (such as Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu) except for its own iTunes.
Among the many services, Roku has the best TV show and movie show function. It can mark programs, movies and actors and remind users when these contents are online. Roku is able to display the most popular TV shows and movies, and shows will be updated four times a day. This is a pretty good way to push new content, and of course I would like it to only push content that I can watch for free.
It's worth noting that the new Roku system, like Fire TV, supports the "Certified Portal Authentication" feature. Roku said this feature is applicable to scenarios such as "Hotel and Hostel Connection" because these places are most likely to use such a network. We did not specifically test this feature during the test.
Meet all your needs of streaming media devices
The new Roku Streaming Stick runs smoothly and at a low price, so it's hard to find any shortcomings. If you are not satisfied with streaming media devices in your home, it should be at the top of your pre-order list.
The name of wireless router can be separated out of two keywords: wireless and routing. Understand the technical principle behind these two words, you understand the wireless router.
Wireless is also what we often call Wi-Fi. Wireless routers can convert home broadband from wired to wireless signals, and all devices can happily surf the Internet as long as they connect to their own Wi-Fi. In addition, these devices also form a wireless local area network, where local data is exchanged at high speed and is not limited by the bandwidth of home broadband.
For example, many people have smart speakers in their homes that can be used to control various smart appliances. When you say small X small X, turn on the TV, the speaker actually finds the TV through the LAN and sends instructions, and does not need to connect to the Internet; And if you let it broadcast news, you have to get data through the Internet.
The Local Area Network we talked about earlier, also known as the Intranet, is represented by the Local Area Network (LAN) on the router, so the Wi-Fi signal is also called WLAN(Wireless LAN); The Internet we want to access, also known as the extranet, is represented on the router by the WAN(Wide Area Network).
On the Intranet, the IP address of each device is different, which is called a private address. All devices on the Internet share the same public address, which is assigned by broadband operators such as China Telecom Unicom.
The router is the bridge between the Intranet and the external network. The above mentioned IP address translation, packet forwarding, is the router routing function.
In other words, the router is the hub of the home network, and the data of all the devices must be forwarded through it to access each other or reach the external network, which means that one husband is the key and ten thousand men are not open, so the comprehensive router is also called "home gateway".
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