Roku 3 versus Apple TV

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:(I purchased a Roku 3 device about 2 months ago. I must confess that my choice was probably not a very informed one and was made almost purely on price. I installed it and within minutes, it was fully operational and connected to my WLAN. A bit of a problem in linking the remote with the device but this was resolved very quickly.

It works perfectly and I am very, very happy with it - easy to use fast and oodles of channels to choose from.

I decided to get a second device and rather tan sticking to what was working, I fell under the spell of Apple and the hype around it and purchased an Apple TV 2012.

What a disappointment!! Difficult to connect to the same Samsung TV that I had no problem connecting to with the Roku. Eventually I managed to get it linked to A LG TV. I battled to get the remote working properly and then found the channels that were available to be very limited, compared to the Roku. It also appears to be much slower than the Roku.

If I can get rid of it I will and will definitely stick to Roku!!
 
Thanks Crawler. Wish I saw this before buying the Apple TV!
 
Personally, I cannot think of a single negative with the Roku 3.

Except that it would have been useful if you could set the DNS the way you can on a PS3.

Anyone know of a way to do that so that you don't have to do it on the router ?
 
Can you configure the Roku3 to stream to multiple TV's or should I buy a Roku for each TV I want to connect it to?

Friend is going to the US and for the price here I might as well buy 2 depending on the above.
 
Jola said:
Personally, I cannot think of a single negative with the Roku 3.

Except that it would have been useful if you could set the DNS the way you can on a PS3.

Anyone know of a way to do that so that you don't have to do it on the router ?
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All solutions would be router based. Some options:

a.) IF you've got a Linux router that runs DNSMASQ or something similar - then you can simply set a route saying if it looks up this domain push it through these DNS server. Thus only looking up Netflix uses that DNS, whilst everything else is secure and on whatever DNS you want.

b.) Setup a different DHCP pool (that assigns different DNS) and add your Roku to this pool and leave all the other devices in the other DHCP pool.
 
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