Speaking of fucking children his username is RotherhamTaxiDriver , probably a reference to the Rotherham paedophilia scandal , whereby a child sex ring was facilitated by you ' ve guessed it , Rotherham Taxi Drivers . I think he might be a troll . <| sep |> I haven ' t used the Fire so can ' t directly compare but I really like the Roku . It does everything I want except run Kodi . Here is a compare . Something that really sticks out for me is the number of video formats Roku supports which Fire does not . mediaplayers . specout . comcompare 273377383 AmazonFireTV 20152 n d G e n e r a t i o n v s R o k u E xpressvsAmazonFireTVStick 2016 For RMP you ' d still need something like Windows Media Player running on your laptop . I tried it a few years ago and the video formats are very limited .