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bought this Roku Express for a little under thirty bucks here on amazon. it's to replace an Apple TV 3rd Generation which is to now to go to my sister. the Apple TV is still good, but wanted something more powerful & versatile. and the Roku Express is all that and more. see my attached picture comparing the Roku Express with my old Apple TV: do NOT let the puny size of the little Roku Express device box dissuade and fool you. the Roku Express is one powerful device. personally very happy with Roku. it's like no turning back to apple. happily watching Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, CBS All Access, ESPN (with the new ESPN+ which could NOT get on my old Apple TV's WatchESPN channel), HBO, and other channels like TheCW (which could NOT get on the old Apple TV), and Pluto TV (which has its own free tv lineup of channels including free movie channels, and some popular cable tv news channels), Crackle, the Roku TV channel, and news channels like CBSN, NBC News, ABC News, and NewsON (for news from your local tv station), and the CBS Sports HQ channel (the new digital sports headline news channel from CBS). there are more channels to select, but those are most of the channels in my lineup on my roku. very versatile and more robust than on my old apple tv. also, a must-have channel is YouTube which looks better as laid out on roku when compared to the simplier youtube version on appletv. and having YouTube on roku makes roku the definite better buy for your money if you are also considering the amazon fire tv stick. get the roku if you want youtube because google is blocking youtube on the amazon fire tv. in other words, roku has youtube, but amazon fire tv does not. a couple things with the roku could be considered cons but which you can fortunately work around: (1) you cannot turn the roku off because it will just go to sleep and have a screensaver that is always on -- solution is to plug the USB for power into the usb input on your TV and when you turn off the TV then the roku will also go off, or you can plug the power for the roku into a powerstrip that you can power off whenever you want; and (2) when you register the roku for the first time, you have to put in your payment information like for a credit card or paypal -- but the solution if you don't like that is you can remove that payment option later by going into your roku online account using a web browser. very happy with this Roku Express. it's now like goodbye to Apple TV. and hello forever to Roku.