Apple TV vs. Google Chromecast vs. Roku: What You Can Watch [Chart]
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Posted July 26, 2013 at 6:43pm by iClarified
Check out this comparison chart from Marketing Land that compares what you can watch on the Apple TV versus the newly announced Google Chromecast and the Roku player.
If you have a lot of Apple devices, you might want the support Airplay offers for talking with your TV. If you’re a big music fan, there are music options I’m not covering here. In terms of major video content choices, I’d say the Roku gives the most options for the least price. Still, at $35, you’re not risking much with a Chromecast — and it can be pretty fun to have various people sitting around “flinging” YouTube videos at it.
Talking about roku 3 it has netflix , Pandora, blockbuster, red box, mlb, nhl, amazon prime, hulu, too much to choose from. I have three of them. No more need for cable or dish
Roku is the way to go get rid of cable and dish save $100 or more a month. It has a lot of channels. That are free. Some are pay channels. That cost less then 5 a month.greAt for movies tv and news and sports too. Pay for what you want to watch not things you don't
I was talking about the actual google tv boxes not the chromecast. They have YouTube and hopefully with update will be able to get all android apps including xbmc which has so many options to customize. Can only hope it runs smooth.
I have 2 atvs with xbmc. One is tethered. It freezes a lot and needs tethered reboot often. Very inconvenient. I also have a quad core android stick. Android sticks main problem is remote integration. I know google tv has been a joke but with the upcoming update to 4.2.2 jellybean on arm based systems only it will finally get ndk support so developers phone and tablet apps will work on google tv. The potential of a real android system with a remote that has touch pad, backlit qwerty keyboard and voice integration, connected through Bluetooth instead of ir could lead me to sell atv's and change to google tv. Sorry to ramble. Just thought it might be worth waiting a month if your in no hurry to see how this update works out. Not an android fanboy. I actually own pretty much all apple devices, and love them. Just can't recommend one right now untill google tv update comes along. might be a game changer.
Hah, google may have stolen the idea of hooking up with the cablec to use devices on tv, but once again, apple wins. Suprised they immediatly did that now after 2 days of revealing foamcrashed.
I am gonna get me one those android usb sticks, honestly I don't know why anyone would think of anything else,
unlike all other media players, coming with an android, it play almost every media type possible, whether is local or on local network share,
it has apps for many services including "netflix" (I am not sure about hulu plus though), youtube, etc..,
even if there is no app, you can open up the website and play the flash/html5, which means you can virtually play video content from most websites.
they could come with HD playback, remote control/mouse, camera, keyboard, usb port for peripherals like storage devices, wireless mouse, etc..
you can even run voip apps, video chat apps, skype, etc.. and talk right from your tv.
none of the other well-known player supports many of these.
and they are usually less than $70.
Here's why many people choose apples usb sticks, it's not only genius to use it like a charger which samsuck uses a charging cord that's roughly heavy like mine for example but it's just also a car charger. The apple usb stick can be used in many device like the ones you pointed out and also works on apples own macs. It can hook devices that use youtube, hulu, and it can finally be powered by flash and play and video now by apple tv and control it using the remote on your ipod/ipad/iphone/imac to control it with airplay, even with any bluetooth speaker especially car bluetooth feature. The usb port from itunes app of any device syncs in easily and is more secure but knows you're there with that same device you used last time on the mac. They're really cheap to buy, even if you don't have the right charger for your device, their is a 30-pin to lightning for a charger or around, you can also use it (very cool trick) and use any apple device to steal rt's battery life.
what are you taking about dude?, you saw one word "android" and turned hostile and sprouted out a long unrelated content :), this article is about media players and if you read the rest of my post you would have seen its related to that, these media player are usually called "android sticks" they are not storage devices :-/
Dude, what I'm saying is first off, if this article is about media players which only we were talking about here and the article is about computers and phone companies tv's. Also you said you chose android sticks and what many people are saying that I'm trying to say is that it's lag. Anything they make may be bigger but still has lag and would cost more.
I am looking for one that can play vob files from my NAS and stil have not found one with this capability. I know I can convert but that will take addional time. so if someone know something that can do this out of box I apprecaite the input.
Thanks. Unfortunately I only have the latest apple TV3 where there is no jailbreak method as yet. still waiting for the community to come with jailbreak method and once is available I will definitely do that.
I'm pretty sure the article is referring to what the unit can do out the box. Otherwise there would be several errors i.e. roku can play YouTube through a third party app such as Playon..
I'm pretty sure the article is referring to what the unit can do out the box. Otherwise there would be several errors i.e. roku can play YouTube through a third party app such as Playon..
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