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Dave Garrett

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On 2015-08-09, dadiOH wrote:

Buy the model 2 Roku

I have a Roku 2 XS (one rev up from the std 2). If you like Youtube,
I'd check out the Roku 3. I gotta believe the 3 has controls that
make navigating U2B a bit easier, cuz they suck on my Roku 2. I watch
Netflix on my flat panel TV via an HDMI cable from the Roku box.

I had a 2 XS for several years until I upgraded to a 3. The 3 has a
significantly faster processor, so channels and video streams load quite
a bit quicker. They also recently added voice search to the 3 (after I
bought mine, but since I don't care about voice search, no big deal).

If you have the YouTube app on your phone, you can pair it with your
Roku's YouTube channel, which will then allow you to search for videos
on your phone and play them on the Roku. It's a lot slicker than using
the Roku channel's built-in search.

Also, as someone mentioned in another post, you can stream videos from
an external hard drive or computer to your Roku. I use the (free) Plex
Media Server and the Plex channel to manage my video library and watch
videos from it on my TV via the Roku, and it works great. There are
other similar options out there if you look around.