I added a Roku premier+ to overcome the lack of smart tv apps and the really lousy remote
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This Tv is worth upgrading an HD TV even without UHD content. The picture quality of upscaled 1080p is remarkable.

I added a Roku premier+ to overcome the lack of smart tv apps and the really lousy remote. I only watch a few TV channels and found roku apps to replace all of those. This gives me higher quality for the TV channels I do watch plus I am now completely cut from the poor channel and picture quality problems with commercial TV. The previous input of the TV remains selected after power is turned off. So I simply turn on the TV and select content using the roku remote without having to use the really bad Sharp remote.

I can see problems with sports. March madness is on my must watch list. I am a baseball fan and mlb.tv is a great option. Then with Netflix and amazon prime, I am getting close to a TV happy camper, which really surprises me.

It would be a 5 if HDR was available.
498501
I bought this awhile back thinking I was replacing my old TV a bit sooner than I did... but I held onto it because I knew the day was coming. Well, we finally got a nice Insignia Roku TV (wanted it for simplicity as my 90 yr old father lives with us so the 1 remote for him is great) ... but I hate typing in everything I need to search for using the toggle....so I *thought* this was the answer. WRONG.

Can't get it to work on this TV at all. I plugged the dongle into my laptop and it works fine so it's not a pairing issue.

Really sad about this as I thought I had found the answer to my disdain for using the toggle feature.... meh....
2374372
While the processor isn't quite as fast as in the ROKU 3, I don't think you'll ever notice it. But I finally bought this second ROKU of ours for a "Smart TV" which turned out to be frustratingly slow. First piece of advice: consider buying a ROKU rather than spending more on such a TV set! Setup is easy and very straightforward, just be patient and careful when entering passwords. Another piece of advice, please make sure you have passwords handy for your ROKU account if you have one, your Amazon Prime or Netflix accounts. Anyway I love the ROKU devices. They work great to have and an excellent accessory to buy!
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I bought this for my friend's UN46D6000. All you just need to pair it with your router. I was searching for a while and finally got this much cheaper model from Amazon. The WIS09 model is so ridiculously overpriced. If you want to save some $ not to get this stick, you can use your old router or buy a cheap N router to turn it into an access point/repeater for your SmartTV.

And for a "smarter" way to browse app/internet from your TV, Samsung has an android app called "Samsung Remote". I just download and play with it today. I can now at least able to send commands via tapping, swyping, typing from my tablet instead of using the OEM dumb remote.
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It works fine with Blu-ray and DVD movies, nice quality and sound. But the smart functionality is too slow, if you are buying these unit for the apps I recommend looking into another model. The smart apps are too slow and it has nothing to do with my internet speed I also own a Roku and it's 10x faster
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First, let me say that this was pretty easy to set up, with the exception of the parts where I had to type in my login information and such. A keyboard with this device or on the remote would have been very helpful. All of the apps worked pretty seemlessly and I was excited about having Netflix, Pandora, Hulu and Amazon Prime all on one device. However, the menu screen is pretty clunky looking and it took me a minute to understand what section the apps I wanted were under. Other "smart" players have a much more slick looking home screen that resemble a computer desktop. Also, I didn't really see a way to customize that view and move frequently used apps to the top of the list and/or delete unwanted ones. But, I've only had it one day, so I guess I could be wrong about that.

Most importantly, the image quality when streaming video is not what I expected. I saw in previous reviews that the device automatically "downscales" the resolution, so I went in and set it to the highest available: 1080p. Even with that, it wasn't nearly as sharp and crisp as what I get via my Apple TV device. It's not pixelated or anything, just a bit lackluster.

Finally, the first dvd I tried wouldn't play. The second one played without a problem and the picture quality was a tiny bit better than I got on a regular dvd player...but nowhere near "mind-blowing".

Overall, it's a decent, budget blu ray with lots of apps and would be perfect for someone who isn't used to watching streamed content in HD. Otherwise, plunk down a few more nickles for another device.
3634277
Lacks apps, sometimes slow response.
The Amazon Prime video app on the Roku does not allow you to navigate/search easily.  I often find myself looking for movies on the PC or iPad, and retrieve in my "History" on Roku.
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Having PLEX easily on my screen is a big deal for me.

I decided to give the Roku Stick a go, because I was just tired of Chromecast not giving me Amazon Prime. I know it is Amazon who is making that deal, but still.

I have a Roku 2, that I bought quite a few years back. This guy is pretty much the same, excited about 15% slower.  Netflix seems to take about 2 minutes each time I launch the app. But thats ok, dedicated remote, works with all the major services... I'm happy
1055383
I bought this for Netflix and Amazon streaming.
The pre-programmed buttons on the remote won't activate either of those functions.
The programs won't even come up in the menu!
368454
My wife and I own smart phones and Kindle Fires so we are familiar with the apps that are available. We bought the Samsung 7000 smart TV expecting the same functionality. Smart TVs have a long way to go before I would consider them smart compared to our other devices.

The first app I looked for in the Samsung app store was an E-mail reader. There isn't one. Then I looked for an app that would allow me to use the qwerty keyboard on my iPhone to control the TV. I found some but when I tried to use them learned they will only work if the TV cable is connected directly to the TV. Who would buy a TV like this if that was the connection being used? Out TV cable is connected to a DVR which is then connected to our TV using the HDMI 1 port.

I have decided to buy a mac mini to connect to one of the other HDMI ports. I could have purchased a non-smart TV and a mac mini for just a bit more than I spent on the smart TV alone and ended up with a TV a lot smarter. Perhaps as smart TVs become more popular additional and better apps will become available but for now they are not worth the extra money.

Now, after all the negative comments about the smartness of the TV.

The picture quality is great. Have not tried the 3D function yet but some of the NFL games I have watched almost make me think I am seeing them in 3D when they are using the field cam.

One more negative. We had this great high def picture to watch and along with that we had this tiny TV sound. Two days after purchasing it I was purchasing a sound bar. Now we have a great picture and great sound.
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This little device is amazing.

For a long time I've admired the Harmony remotes, and several years ago tried (I think it was a model 600) to make it work, but it just didn't seem to have the ease-of-use with all the buttons and the screen etc etc.

Recently built a 'false-wall' home theater, hiding speakers behind an acoustically transparent screen and putting all the equipment (receiver, blu-ray, roku, and soon a tablo) behind out of sight. The remote on the smart control is thin, and feels great in your hand. Yes it does not have backlighting, but the small CR battery lasts a long time (or so I'm told).

I rely on wired Ethernet everywhere for TV (and Sonos for music) as wireless is just too variable. Turned out that during the easy setup steps I configured the Smart Control as a wired system. I then had the problem of being able to switch the receiver and turn on the Roku (the main device I'm using until the Tablo gets setup); the Roku turned on fine but none of the controls worked.

After doing a fair amount of searching the Logitech forums, I ended up doing the following which worked: unplugged the Roku, deleted the Roku 3 from the My Harmony application on my laptop, then plugged in the Roku and set it up as a Wifi connection. Then go back into the My Harmony app and add the Roku 3 + receiver combination again.

Voila - everything works swimmingly.

After a little while I went into the Roku settings and went back to Ethernet, everything still works.

The BluRay and Receiver (I have a new Denon AVR-X2100W) both work really well with the remote. The IR range is great.

Update June 27 2015: A few weeks ago the Roku wasn't being controlled by the Harmony Smart Control. We weren't watching that often (this is for the basement 'movie night' HT rather than the TV upstairs), so it wasn't that inconvenient to have the extra Roku 3 remote driving the Roku. And then today the receiver no longer was operable.

I had to dig out the Harmony 'puck', figure out that I had to download the Harmony software to my PC (had to reinstall Windows in the interim and lost the program), and 're-sync' to the puck after it recognized it via mini-USB cable adapter. Plugged it back in and everything worked as it did at the beginning.

Sure is nice to have the My Harmony software after login to remember the original settings - otherwise I would have had to start all over again. While setup could be a bit easier this ability to save my own parameters from the remote to the cloud is really great.
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My setup couldn't be simpler; A recent model Samsung TV, ditto a Sony Blue Ray and a brand new Motorola Cable box/DVR provided by TimeWarner. At first my only issue was getting the remote to control the TV sound and mute. Then I went back to the software and fiddled a bit and got that working. Then the real problems erupted. The remote would not set the TV to the appropriate input on turn-on or when switching from TV to DVD or vice versa. My connections were straightforward, HDMI1 and HDMI2 but no matter, it just refused to connect the right input to the right component. I could toggle through the help screen and make the change manually, but why have to go through those steps with a fancy remote to do what I can already do with separate component remotes.
I'm not a complete dummy and have programmed remotes before but this one actually got worse the more I worked on it. I must have reprogrammed it 20 times. It might work once and then in switching to the other component it wouldn't select the appropriate inpu.
Back to Amazon it goes.
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I purchased this device hoping to replace a roku and satellite set top box. It does run xbmc, netflicks and satellite tv app. However setting it up has been a chore. Forget the remote, it works but entering text is SLOWWWW. I now use a wireless mouse that is better but a keyboard remote would be ideal. I have a keyboard remote but cannot get it to work with the G-Box.

XBMC works nice, but on the first go through it kept losing add-ins, so I reset the box and downloaded a later version of XBMC. It works better now but I have to enter and exit through the launcher to keep the settings. Using the remote on-off while in XBMC causes the unit to forget the add-ins.

The netflicks app works fine, the satellite app is a version for cellphones so the picture is less than ideal even in "HD" mode.

I am going to keep the unit because for now it does what I want it to do, however I can see it will have a short product life in my home. A good media center build is still at least $500, hopefully more powerful boxes will be available in a year or so.
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REMOTE IS DIFFCULT TO WORK WITH , I HAVE A ROKU  WITH A REMOTE THAT IS SO MUCH BETTER THE TV SHOULD HAVE A BETTER REMOTE.
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The picture is very good.  This is a tertiary TV so it is not used much which turned out to be good.  The remote having the touch pad is almost unusable.  We were to the point of returning the TV when we discovered the app for the iPhone.  The app allows you to type in the channel number and go directly to that channel.  The remote forces you to use the on screen key pad.  If you are slow in getting to the numbers, it assumes you are finished and goes to what number is displayed.  Your other choice is to scroll through every channel to get to the one you want. Poor user interface.
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The picture is great sound is alright the smart function and menus lag, updates require a relogin to services (inconvenient) I think that the lessons learned would be buy a tv for picture/sound and then buy a smart device to use with (ie Apple TV, Amazon fire etc)
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To say that I'm extremely under-impressed would be an understatement. It's fast and snappy, but overall I dislike the interface, the stability, and compatibility issues with the iOS apps available. I cannot control this unit using my iPhone like I can with my Roku. That means I have to keep a pile of remotes next to me at all times. Lame.