First Look: New Roku 4 adds 4K streaming, Television junkies generally charge a adviser to acquaint them which programs to watch. The way it’s going, you’re aswell traveling to charge a adviser to acquaint you from which accessories to stream.
Consider the abounding announcements in contempo days: beginning accessories accessible now or advancing anon from Amazon (Fire TV), Apple (Apple TV), Google (Chromecast), NVIDIA (NVIDIA Shield) and TiVo (TiVo Bolt).
And now Roku has just apparent its newest box, the premium-priced $129.99 Roku 4.
Major affairs point: 4K video alive at up to 60 frames-per-second. Roku claims this as a aggressive advantage over rivals who affiance 4K alive of up to 30 FPS, and over the new Apple TV box which lacks 4K alive abutment altogether.
Roku has been a baton in the alive space, with 3 billion hours collectively streamed endure year, and 2.5 billion hours in the aboriginal six months of this year.
I can absolutely vouch for the bland playback and beauteous visuals on the 4K footage Roku showed me via the Roku 4 on a 50-inch Samsung UHD television, not that I got to watch for actual long.
Roku is aswell aiming to advice you abridge the action of award 4K streams, with a curated 4K Spotlight approach that is alone arresting if you accept the Roku 4.
And Roku is devoting a area of the Roku Approach Store to 4K UHD content.
The aggregation says it gives admirers admission to added 4K programming than any of its rivals, with agreeable offerings from Netflix, M-Go, Amazon Instant Video, Toon Goggles, Vudu and YouTube.
Of course, abounding admirers don’t yet accept a 4K television, admitting that could alpha to change with prices for the TVs continuing to fall. For the uninitiated, 4K televisions avowal four times the account resolution or accurateness of top analogue sets.
Roku insists the new alive amateur is advantageous even for association who haven’t bought a 4K TV yet. And if you do acquirement a 4K cine on a Roku 4 that is affiliated to an HDTV, it will beck that flick in 1080p.
Among added new appearance on the latest box is a limited ascendancy finder that will advice you locate a limited that is conceivably hidden beneath a couch cushion—pressing a button on the Roku 4, sounds an alert.
As with the Roku 3, the Roku 4 appearance articulation seek and a headphone jack on the remote.
On Tuesday, Roku aswell appear an amend to its software that will appear not alone to Roku 4 but to absolute models in the Roku lineup, including the $49.99 Roku Alive Stick and the Roku branded televisions congenital by Haier, TCL, Sharp, Insignia and Hisense. (There isn’t yet a 4K Roku TV.)
The software enhances the Roku Feed affection alien in March that initially let you “follow” a box appointment movie, and apprentice if and area it would be accessible for alive and at what price. The new amend lets you “follow” movies, TV shows, actors, and admiral and accept notifications on the appraisement and availability of such content.
Also new is a affection targeted at business travelers and academy acceptance who accompany their Roku accessories on the alley or to campus. Dubbed Hotel and Dorm Connect, the abstraction is that afterwards abutting Roku to the television in such places, you won’t accept to assurance in to the Wi-Fi networks anniversary time you wish to stream. Instead, you alone log in with the appropriate accreditation just once, and Roku food those accreditation for the next time you’re traveling to watch.
Roku's adaptable app for Android and iOS aswell gets a refresh.
Meanwhile, at atomic for the moment, Roku has been absolved by Amazon. Endure week, Amazon said it would stop affairs Apple TV and Google Chromecast at the end of this month, now that those media alive accessories anon attempt with the anew revamped Fire TV.
Roku is demography preorders on the Roku 4 starting today. The alive amateur ships after this month.
Consider the abounding announcements in contempo days: beginning accessories accessible now or advancing anon from Amazon (Fire TV), Apple (Apple TV), Google (Chromecast), NVIDIA (NVIDIA Shield) and TiVo (TiVo Bolt).And now Roku has just apparent its newest box, the premium-priced $129.99 Roku 4.
Major affairs point: 4K video alive at up to 60 frames-per-second. Roku claims this as a aggressive advantage over rivals who affiance 4K alive of up to 30 FPS, and over the new Apple TV box which lacks 4K alive abutment altogether.
Roku has been a baton in the alive space, with 3 billion hours collectively streamed endure year, and 2.5 billion hours in the aboriginal six months of this year.
I can absolutely vouch for the bland playback and beauteous visuals on the 4K footage Roku showed me via the Roku 4 on a 50-inch Samsung UHD television, not that I got to watch for actual long.
Roku is aswell aiming to advice you abridge the action of award 4K streams, with a curated 4K Spotlight approach that is alone arresting if you accept the Roku 4.
And Roku is devoting a area of the Roku Approach Store to 4K UHD content.
The aggregation says it gives admirers admission to added 4K programming than any of its rivals, with agreeable offerings from Netflix, M-Go, Amazon Instant Video, Toon Goggles, Vudu and YouTube.
Of course, abounding admirers don’t yet accept a 4K television, admitting that could alpha to change with prices for the TVs continuing to fall. For the uninitiated, 4K televisions avowal four times the account resolution or accurateness of top analogue sets.
Roku insists the new alive amateur is advantageous even for association who haven’t bought a 4K TV yet. And if you do acquirement a 4K cine on a Roku 4 that is affiliated to an HDTV, it will beck that flick in 1080p.
Among added new appearance on the latest box is a limited ascendancy finder that will advice you locate a limited that is conceivably hidden beneath a couch cushion—pressing a button on the Roku 4, sounds an alert.
As with the Roku 3, the Roku 4 appearance articulation seek and a headphone jack on the remote.
On Tuesday, Roku aswell appear an amend to its software that will appear not alone to Roku 4 but to absolute models in the Roku lineup, including the $49.99 Roku Alive Stick and the Roku branded televisions congenital by Haier, TCL, Sharp, Insignia and Hisense. (There isn’t yet a 4K Roku TV.)
The software enhances the Roku Feed affection alien in March that initially let you “follow” a box appointment movie, and apprentice if and area it would be accessible for alive and at what price. The new amend lets you “follow” movies, TV shows, actors, and admiral and accept notifications on the appraisement and availability of such content.
Also new is a affection targeted at business travelers and academy acceptance who accompany their Roku accessories on the alley or to campus. Dubbed Hotel and Dorm Connect, the abstraction is that afterwards abutting Roku to the television in such places, you won’t accept to assurance in to the Wi-Fi networks anniversary time you wish to stream. Instead, you alone log in with the appropriate accreditation just once, and Roku food those accreditation for the next time you’re traveling to watch.
Roku's adaptable app for Android and iOS aswell gets a refresh.
Meanwhile, at atomic for the moment, Roku has been absolved by Amazon. Endure week, Amazon said it would stop affairs Apple TV and Google Chromecast at the end of this month, now that those media alive accessories anon attempt with the anew revamped Fire TV.
Roku is demography preorders on the Roku 4 starting today. The alive amateur ships after this month.
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