2024 the best roku to buy review
Price: $29.99 - $104.99
(as of Nov 15, 2024 02:01:23 UTC - Details)
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Roku Streambar is the powerful 2-in-1 entertainment upgrade with Roku streaming and premium sound for any TV. Upgrade to America’s #1 TV streaming platform and enjoy a massive selection of free and live TV in vibrant 4K HDR picture quality. The customizable home screen puts your favorite channels like Netflix, Prime Video, Amazon Freevee, Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Sling, and Hulu front and center. Crisp, clean audio makes dialogue easier to hear and with its compact design, you’ll be amazed at how something so small can fill your room with sound. You can even quiet loud commercials automatically plus stream music with Bluetooth. Setup is simple with everything in the box, including the Roku voice remote that controls your TV, sound, and streaming. For even bigger sound, add deep, rich bass with Roku Wireless Bass and immersive surround sound with Roku Wireless Speakers (sold separately). Just plug in and wirelessly pair. Roku is America’s #1 TV streaming platform based on hours streamed – Hypothesis Group, December 2022
Built-in 4K streaming device: Enjoy an easy, fast interface with popular channels and endless free entertainment—stream in brilliant HD, 4K, and HDR picture with sharp resolution and vivid colors optimized for any TV
Watch what you love: Stream a massive selection of free, live, and premium TV, including Roku Originals and 300 plus live TV channels for free on The Roku Channel
Surprisingly big sound: Listen in awe as four internal speakers fill your room with clean, pure sound featuring Dolby Audio—calibrated for boosted volume and crisp dialogue, you’ll love how great your TV sounds at an incredible value
Customizable home screen: Put your favorite channels like Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, Prime Video, and more front and center—less scrolling, more streaming
Smarter than your average soundbar: Roku Streambar produces sound well beyond its size with the help of advanced audio engineering within the Roku OS—boosted volume and speech clarity will make your TV easier to hear and add rich depth to your music
Simple sound settings: It’s easy to perfect your sound no matter what you’re watching—automatically lower loud commercials, boost the volume of voices, and optimize the sound for night listening so you don’t wake the house
Quick and easy setup: Everything you need is included in the box—just plug it into your TV and connect to the internet; it’s that simple
No more juggling remotes: Power up your TV, adjust the volume, and control your streaming all with the Roku voice remote—use your voice to quickly search, play entertainment, turn captions on, and more
Bluetooth streaming: Bump your music in vibrant, studio-quality sound from your favorite channels or your connected Bluetooth device
Easily expandable: Add heart-pounding bass with Roku Wireless Subwoofer and immersive surround sound with one or two sets of Roku Wireless Speakers
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Outstanding and simple to hook up.
Review: Great sound, easy install, and perfect for an outside TV on a cart, or behind a bar.
Reviewer: Essegr
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: What a sound!
Review: Paired with a Samsung Smart TV and Roku wireless rear speakers. Amazing sound with top value (price/performance). Our next purchase will be the Roku wireless Bass Pro subwoofer.Fantastic purchase.
Reviewer: William Tai
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Constant Problems and Terrible Support
Review: I started having problems with this device almost immediately. Text would appear garbled, and the device would frequently crash. I tried to trouble shoot it myself for a while, and eventually tried contacting Roku support, who walked me through the usual system resets, etc. It worked fine for another month or so, but then suddenly started dropping out audio and refused to connect with my Roku wireless speakers. Spent another week trying everything from resets to changing my wifi setup to changing my room setup. Support finally issued an RMA, but under the condition that I return the device first and pay for the shipping costs. I should have just returned it through Amazon when problems started initially. I've used Roku products for years, and while they have always had some issues, at least support used to be ok. I'm now planning to transition my entire ecosystem to something else.
Reviewer: Mark
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Priced right but did not meet needs
Review: I purchased as a present. For me, it worked as expected and at a great price. It did not meet the need for The person I got if for did not find it to meet their expectations and more difficult to operate than their skill set.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Impressive sound in a small package
Review: Is these a home theater replacement? No. Is it a great in between tv speakers and home theater? Yes. Doesnât take up much space and doubles as your streaming device. Works great sounds great would highly recommend.
Reviewer: Purchaser
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Perfect Companion For Desktop Monitor
Review: I use this to drive a 2K computer monitor normally used for a second computer screen. It works great. I just plugged it in, used the Roku settings functions to set it for 4K (even though my monitor is only 2K), and it just works. Sound quality is at least equal to my LG tv, or perhaps better. I have learned that turning it âoffâ with the remote control does not actually de-energize the Roku unit; as a result, the screen will never go to sleep. When done watching the Roku programming, I must switch the monitor back to the computer input so that it will sleep when not in use; or, I can just turn off the monitor.
Reviewer: Jessica Byers
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Saved me money
Review: Almost replaced a whole tv but found this instead. We have an old smart tv that wonât support a lot of streaming services plus having a wall mounted tv makes for crappy audio. But this was exactly what I needed and saved me a ton of money.
Reviewer: Valerie Anne Ferlauto
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sound good, quirky sync
Review: The sound is satisfactory. The problem I have is it will turn on the TV when I turn off the TV with my universal remote. It works great tuning into the Roku homepage, goes right to the correct HDMI input. When I use my universal remote to turn on the DirecTV, sometimes I have to switch the HDMI input manually.I have found that this only works as a standalone input. Any cable box or satellite box and this becomes a multi input multi remote nightmare.
Reviewer: Assaad A.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great quality for the price. Easy to set up. Sound output is impressive for such a small item.
Reviewer: IDR
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great sound for such a small device. Easy to set up and operate.
Reviewer: chris
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Had an old computer running my old LED tv for a home theatre. Wife hated the work involved starting computer , receiver, etc.. This works good and sound is pretty good not great but acceptable to an old fellow with hearing loss â¦Set up was fairly easy although it did not want to work audio with out hooking up the fibre optic cable not sure why my tv and cable were compatible.
Reviewer: cyul
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The computer we were using as a kitchen TV finally gave up the ghost. As a replacement, I grabbed a disused monitor and connected it to the Roku Streambar, now we can not only watch Netflix, but we can even cast a video through AirPlay from our iPhones, using Chrome from our computers, or even just music from YouTube music. This thing takes anything you throw at it - it is completely agnostic - and the sound is fantastic! Roku products are severely underrated.
Reviewer: Tony
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: What I like about this unite ,is that it made the picture sharper and more clear on my tv. The sound bar speakers are better quality than my tv speakers. Plus the Roku's remote works with my tv to turn it of or on , and also controls the sound bars volume. I use the Roku Streambar to find information on utube , moves and other programs on WI-FI . The Roku Streambar works better than I expected
Customers say
Customers like the functionality and ease of setup of the standalone streaming media player. They mention it works great and is easy to hook up. However, some customers have reported that it's slow as molasses and starts to lag when watching a show. Opinions are mixed on the sound quality and value for money.
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