And the search software on Roku has also been improved, to make it a little bit easier to find all of the stuff you could possibly want to watch out of more than - wait for it - the 3,500 channels the Roku currently has.Īll of this new hardware will ship sometime in October. The top three boxes - Premiere, Premiere+, and Ultra - all come with a "night listening" mode that compresses the audio levels of the video you're watching, so that loud music or harsh explosive sounds will more closely match the dialogue levels of the programming. The Ultra's remote is the only one that comes with the "Find My Remote" function, as well as A/B gaming buttons. This $130 streaming media player has many of the same features as the Premiere+ - it will stream both 4K and HDR video - but includes an even more advanced remote and a USB port on the box, allowing owners to plug in a thumb drive with their own media. The new Roku boxes range in price from $30 to $130 the top model supports 4K and HDRįinally there's the Roku Ultra, which replaces the Roku 4, though the new pancake-style box looks quite similar to last year's box. And the Premiere+ box itself has an Ethernet port and a microSD card slot.
The $100 Roku Premiere+ adds HDR support to the mix, along with an enhanced remote that includes Roku's "private listening" feature, aka a headphone jack. It has a quad-core processor and comes with Roku's standard IR remote. The Roku Premiere will retail for $80 and supports 4K video at 60 frames per second (which helps smooth out the video when you're actually watching 4K video). The mid-tier Premiere and Premiere+ Rokus replace the Roku 2 and Roku 3 boxes, respectively. There's also a version of the Express box that comes with composite cables, for an additional $10. It streams HD video, not 4K like the top-of-the-line Rokus do, but it also costs just $30, making it the most affordable Roku. The new Roku Express box replaces the Roku 1 with a much smaller form factor (75 percent smaller) and double the processing power of the original box. The Los Gatos, California-based company has effectively replaced all of its media streaming boxes with new hardware its streaming video stick, announced earlier this year, remains the same. After weeks of leaks about the new products, Roku has officially announced its new line of streaming media boxes.
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