M.B.
I don't have a techy bone in my body, but I can tell you that I was completely underwhelmed with Roku. You can stream Netflix on it, but if you are looking for the free channels they weren't very good. I would stick to something that streams in addition to doing something else (i.e. an xBox or the BluRay that streams). We decided to return it and put the money toward a new laptop that will stream and give us another use too. You had to page through all the options to get what you want and there wasn't a way to type things in. Granted we didn't try it with Netfilx itself, but I bet it would be cumbersome to find the movies you wanted.