Dunno.

We've got a couple of "smart" TVs, but typically try to do stuff via a Chromecast dongle and Chrome. It works fine for mirroring the screen and playing YouTube stuff. But there are seemingly lots of live music streams where it doesn't work (gives blue rectangle with WiFi icon error). I can't find any sensible explanation of why it doesn't work (something about video encoding??), or what to do to get around it.

What we usually end up doing is running a video cable to a different input on the TV and connecting a laptop to that. Works fine, except for the audio sync is usually off by ~ 1/2 second. :-/

We've never had a Roku.

If you find a bulletproof solution, please let us know.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Scott.

I'd put up that with that for one second. I can't handle dubbed either.

So for a device-wise Roku impresses me. I really like the fact that you can plug headphones into the phone, Bluetooth whatever, while having the video go to the TV. That's something I've missed. On the other hand the fire stick has audio leveling. I am constantly upping and lowering volume to handle dialogue versus car chases. Up the dialogue down the car chases. The fire stick has that built in but I've yet to experience it. It's a menu item to me at this point.

It won't matter when I have a 7.1 AV system installed. Center speaker does dialogue and I can control the boost. So I can handle that with any source.

The Roku has many third party casting applications. The Roku has many years of independent developers working on it combined with Roku itself improving it. I think all the competitors are an afterthought designed to sell something else. By default it did not work for me and then I downloaded a couple and I found one that worked but annoyed the hell out of me with the ads so I gave it its $4 one time payment. And it works well. If you have a Roku I'll follow up with specific application, just ask.

It looks like I'll end up with a combination of Roku and Chromecast. I really like the Roku remote with the volume and mute on the side. I wonder if they patented that? The Roku doesn't do seamless casting from the phone even with that application but it does it well enough, as long as I have a Chromecast sitting next to it.

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