Amazon Fire Stick or Roku

Which unit is a better system?
Wife asked me to look into.

 

http://forums.13x.com/index.php?search/23467090/&q=firestick&o=date&c[node]=3

 

AppleTV

 

I don’t particularly like the Fire stick, but you can get 2 for $60 right now which isn’t too bad.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079QHML21?tag=slickdeals&ascsubtag=af016a14f11311e8bc846ea02c65049f0INT

However, We have 2 roku ultras and have been totally happy with them.

 

I've got an older Roku2 (I think? ) and just upgraded my av receiver to a 4k pass through and threw an Xbox One on the system.

Xbox does 4K Netflix, which is nice.

Xbox doesn't do surround for Pandora, which is the suck. I still get Pandora surround from the Roku though so it's not going away anytime soon.

Curious if the Ultra generates surround on stereo broadcast stuff like the 2 does.

 

question, dosnt your internet have to be strong enough for them to work well? fronter isnt the best ,but its all we can get.

 

Needs to have whatever minimum speed (download speed) to support what you are trying to do. Audio is pretty lightweight, HD video and 4K require decent internet speeds.
This is true for any streaming media player. The higher the resolution, the more data speed you need for it to work smoothly.

My Roku works fine in 1080P on a basic Internet connection - 10Mb down, but when I'm streaming races, I'm not doing anything else with my internet connection. YMMV

 

I don't remember if I'm 10 or 20 down, my concern is blasting through my 250GB plan on reruns of Forensic Files instead of hot streaming VR pr0nz.

 

speedtest.com for checking speed,

But save all your BW for pron. :up:

 

Pfft! Like I'm gonna fire up the laptop to test my data speeds.

If I can't do it on my phone it don't need doin'!

 

I’m not sure about that, but your receiver should have a ‘multi-channel stereo’ mode.

 

It reads like stereo instructions.

 

They have an app too.