I’m not familiar with the Firestick. Why is it superior over Roku?
We've had both roku and just recently switched to the firestick.
Both have similar content. But the firestick seems more refined.
Our local cable just switched about 8 months ago to an online app and streaming instead of a box and DVR setup. So no more renting equipment.
On roku, fast forwarding a recording on the TV app, the picture would freeze, all you see is the minute counter on the progress bar.
So if you were skipping commercials, sometimes you would end up missing some of your program, and then have to rewind.
Slow and clunky moving the cursor when on the TV guide. Wouldn't give you program description of the show you highlighted unless you clicked on it which brought you to a new screen.
Roku was easier to set up the apps you want or need. While setting it up online, it actually asked if you had a paid TV plan. You could then type the name of the app in the search bar, select it, and it popped right up in your apps on the rocku stick when it booted up.
Fire TV app, cursor works as expected, scroll down to a show and it automatically lists a description of the show in a small box directly under the title you highlighted. Fastforwarding actually shows the picture so you can see exactly when you get to the end of the commercials.
Fire stick was harder to add apps. Couldn't find our TV app even though I knew that it was available for fire stick. They only list the most popular and good luck searching with the remote to find it. I finally hit the voice command option on the remote and asked for that app and it brought it up.
....................Mike
