![]() Roku TV – No one can beat Roku when it comes to the user interface. With the addition of Siri and a clearer, crispy Menu, the tvOS looks fabulous with multi colored graphics with reduced redundant borders. Roku TV’s streaming experience was hampered by low quality video output.īut it soon upgraded it’s video output format from 480i to 1080 pixels and overtook Apple TV within a few years.Īmazon Fire TV – Released in the summer of 2014, Fire TV was the first of it’s kind to have a built in gaming console for gamers.Īpart from the 8 GB internal storage and a 2 GB RAM, Fire TV had the Dolby Digital Surround Sound system as well as the usual Ethernet port, HDMI audio and a USB port.Īpple TV – Inline with Steve Jobs vision to keep Apple TV’s User Interface as simple as possible, Apple TV’s UI has improved tremendously over the years. Roku TV – The very first internet TV released exclusively for streaming Netflix’s content. Initially released with a 40 GB hard disk then upgraded to a 160 hard disk drive, Apple tried to sync iTunes with Apple TV right from the very beginning. Let us compare these streaming giants along with their best performing streaming devices.Īpple TV – Apple TV’s basic model is more for the 70s generation than for the millennials. Roku TV with it’s affordable pricing, coupled with superior viewing clarity and a higher channel account will soon over take Apple TV and establish itself as a market leader even after the arrival of Google’s Chromecast (July 2013) and Amazon’s Fire TV ( April 2014). ![]() Please help - not sure what to do or try next.It was a 1990s startup called WebTV that was the very first company that introduced Internet TV way back in 1996.Ĭo-founded by an Apple employee Steve Perlman, who was also the inventor of the Apple’s Quick Time player, WebTV was functional till 2006 and had close to 400 million subscribers before Microsoft purchased and abandoned it altogether. I changed the HDMI setting in the Roku from Auto to Dolby D/DTS, but it made no difference as far as the noises. Our receiver does DTS-HD and DolbyTrueHD. I checked the Roku this morning and confirmed it's using HDMI, the audio mode was set to Auto/Dolby D. We're wondering if it's the quality of the audio being better than our Roku 2 or Yamaha AV can handle? It's a Yamaha RX-V373. ![]() We never noticed this until about 1-2 months ago, it's very noticeable now. And it's happening on maybe 2/5 of the movies we're watching now and seems to be getting worse/more frequent. We thought it might be an SD vs HD issue with Amazon, but they both have the same problem. It's not as noticeable (hardly at all) for deeper tones. This is not random, it happens throughout the entire movie and is most noticeable for sounds like rain, waterfalls, flowing water, background conversations. We thought it was confined to Amazon but last night watched Rogue 1 on Netflix and had the same problem. It's coming from all the speakers, not just one. ![]() In the last 1-2 months, we've started hearing a hissing/popping/crackling noise only during certain streaming movies. We have a Roku 2 and a Yamaha home theater with 5.1. First time posting here and I don't know a lot about home theater but I'm learning.
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