![]() ![]() Hopefully we’ll see ITV Player soon, so we can get our fix of Loose Women. ![]() We have watched the excellent Sky Now TV though: splash out £6.99 on a month’s Entertainment Pass, immerse yourself in Game Of Thrones and The Walking Dead and you’ll be glad you had it.Īdding apps is a piece of cake and new services join the line-up regularly. Personally we’re quite partial to Visitation, a live stream of services from the Our Lady of the Visitation chuch in Cincinnatti, Ohio. There are hundreds more specialist channels, catering for every interest. You’ll find more than 500 apps on the Roku store, including the aforementioned BBC iPlayer and Netflix, Sky Store and Now TV, 4oD, Demand 5, Spotify, TuneIn, and YouTube. And here the Roku Streaming Stick has an advantage. READ MORE: Netflix: "There really isn’t a case for different versions of a film"Ī media streamer is only ever as good as the media it has to stream. And if you really must have an app, Roku has one of those too. It’s well built, the buttons work with a satisfying click and using it is often more simple than switching on your phone, navigating to an app etc etc. And as the remote doesn’t need line of sight, it’s no less flexible to operate than an app either. For this task you can either use the bundled wall plug or hook them straight up to a USB socket on your TV.īut crucially, the Roku comes with a dedicated remote, whereas the Chromecast can only be operated via smartphone app. The Roku is proudly purple, the Chromecast casual in black.īoth plug into your telly via HDMI, and both also have a microUSB socket at the other end from which they draw their power. There’s not much to choose between the two sticks here, and given that they’ll be stuck round the back of your TV it doesn’t really matter much what they look like anyway.īut for what it’s worth, the Chromecast is short with a bulbous back end, the Roku a little longer and slimmer. ![]()
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