Roku Express box

[RHB]

I'm not a subscriber to Sky or BT TV so I currently use a Freesat recorder for live TV and have an amazon box and a Now box attached plus a DVD player via HDMI ports. My issue is contention with the number of ports vs the number of boxes to plug in. My old panasonic had 4 ports so no problem, this one has only 3. I've been looking at buying a Roku Express plug in which would give me Amazon, Now and Netflix all via the same port. It also gives me YouTube and a wodge of other streaming apps which I'm not too fussed about.

Anyone using a Roku box at the moment, and if so, is it as good as the Now and Amazon boxes as separates?

 

[RHB]

Because so many of you swamped me with glowing reports I went out a bought one for £29 from Currys. It does exactly what I want and I can access Netfix, Amazon Prime and Now TV all from the same box and one HDMI port used.

 

[Ricky Otto]

I've got a Fire TV box and the one issue I have is that I can't get the Now TV services, in particular the pay per view boxing.
I've just ordered one of these off amazon to get here in time for the boxing Saturday, much better than watching on a tablet

 

[RHB]

The one thing you can't do with the box is to download Kodi on it. You can cast it from an Android device though.

 

[Ricky Otto]

I don't actually use Kodi that often so I'll keep my amazon TV box for that on the odd occasion I do want to watch something on there. I used to use kodi to watch a lot of new movies, but I live a 5 min walk from the odeon in Chelmsford and got a corporate deal on limitless so I just go to the cinema 2 or 3 times a week now, which is lovely with this weather, the aircon is heaven!