A:AnswerYou can watch real television, in real time. But you have to have an app for that. If you’re a spectrum customer you have to have the spectrum app. And then you can watch television the same way you did before. The Roku is just a device to access apps. And you can take it with you when you go on vacation so you have all of your particular apps already loaded and accounted for.
A:AnswerThis isn’t preloaded. The peacock app is something you would search for and download. But you could place it in your opening menu. So you won’t have to go hunting for it every time. You could make it a favorite
A:AnswerI uses it's own adapter and the cord is about three feet long I think. I only unrolled mine about a foot or so. I plugged it into the surge protector next to my TV set.
A:AnswerThe answer depends on what features you think are most important. For price and WiFi range and performance I believe it is, but I can not speak to how it stacks up in other areas such as picture and HDR.