One of the most common questions we get especially from new cord cutters is what is the best streaming player for cord cutting. Today we decided to dig down and see what reviews on Amazon have to say about what is the best streaming player.
To do this we decided to use the higher-end streaming player made by the companies behind the OS. This means we looked at the Roku Ultra, Fire TV Stick 4K Max, Apple TV 2022 model, and the Chromecast with Google TV 4K. All of these models are the newest version currently being sold at the time of this post.
Here is how each streaming player ranked out of 5 with one being the worst and 5 being the best.
- Fire TV Stick 4K Max 4.7 from 149,006 reviews
- Apple TV 4K 4.7 from of 2,389 reviews.
- Roku Ultra 4.6 from of 6,925 reviews
- Chromecast with Google TV 4K 4.6 from of 18,426 reviews.
With less than a 0.1 difference between all of these streaming players there is clearly no big winner when it comes to user reviews. Increasingly most of these streaming services all offer
To help figure out what the best streaming player is earlier this year we survived hundreds of our readers asking them what streaming player they liked best.
Here is how the top streaming players broke down according to our readers:
- Roku 52%
- Fire TV 18%
- Apple TV 14%
- Google TV & Android TV 8%
- Nivida Shield 6%
- Samsung Smart TV 1%
- Tivo 1%
*Note this poll was conducted on our Cord Cutting Tech Support Group, asking our readers what streaming player they thought was best for cord cutting.
There are reports that Amazon, Google, Apple, and Roku all have new streaming players in the works. No word yet on when we should expect new streaming players from these companies but they are reportedly in the works.