I bought this as a device to stream Youtube and Netflix to a HDMI TV, but the Pi3 unfortunately disappointed in this area.
If you are considering streaming Youtube at 1080p on a Pi3, you can forget about it. 720p was just about achievable, but I wouldn't have called it steady.
Also, Chromium which is included with Raspbian, doesn't support Netflix as standard (gives an error for Widevine plugin). I tried a number of ways to resolve this, there are numerous suggestions online, but couldn't get it working. By this stage I was losing hope for the Pi3 to be my streaming media player anyway.
Having said all that though, the next option for me was to use the Pi3 as a retro gaming console, and in this regard it is excellent. Pre-installed RetroPie image, out of the box support for my wireless X-Box pads, and plays games up to PSX/N64/Dreamcast flawlessly (with a little overclocking and tinkering). I was up and running with a great retro game library in no time. It's even quite portable!
There's a ton of other things that the Pi is great at, and which I could envisage doing with it, so it still get's a high score and recommendation, even if it did disappoint me as an online video player.
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