Roku Grew Active Accounts In 2022’s Difficult Economic Conditions
Despite a difficult macro economic environment, causing a virtually flat gross profit performance for the year, streaming TV resource Roku managed to significantly increase its active accounts and total revenue during 2022, the company reported this week. In its Q4-2022 financial statements, Roku emphasized that…
Roku Officially Announces Marketing Plans For Its Own-Branded Roku TVs In 2023
At CES 2023, smart TV company Roku confirmed long-speculation that it will be offering its first-ever Roku-made and solely branded Roku TVs through two value-oriented model series — Roku Select and Roku Plus. The first fruits of the company’s own designed, built and self-marketed TVs…
Nordic Viaplay Content Comes To The Roku Channel
Roku this week had good news for U.S. fans of Nordic-originated television content through a deal to bring more than 1,500 hours of premium movies and programs from the region’s streaming content distributor Viaplay as a premium channel service partner available in the U.S. through…
Roku Launches `Sports Experience’ Destination On Home Screen UI
Roku launched today a new Sports experience that combines updates to live and upcoming sports from across the Roku platform into a new centralized sports-content-centric location to make it easier to find and stream sports events. Users will no long need to click through multiple…
Roku Enters Smart Home Category With Value-Priced Lineup
Roku announced today that it has entered the smart home products category through its new Roku Smart Home suite of smart home products including smart lights, plugs, security cameras, video doorbells and more. The company called the category entry “a first step beyond the company’s…
TCL’s Massive 85″ 4K 6-Series Mini-LED Roku TV Hits Retail At Under $2,000
TCL said Monday that its 2022 85-inch edition 6-Series (R655) 4K Roku TV with Mini LED backlight and Quantum Dot color enhancement is available at retail now. The very big screen TCL 85-inch 6 Series model (85R655) rings in at an aggressive $1999.99 suggested retail…
Roku OS V. 11.5 Expands Private Listening, Voice Commands, `What To Watch’
Along with Monday’s announcements of new Roku Express and Roku Sound Bass products Monday, the smart TV platform resource revealed that a new Roku OS 11.5 firmware update will be coming to its supported devices in the coming months. The update, which was announced through…
New Roku Express, Roku Wireless Bass Products To Come In October, November
Roku introduced Monday its latest Roku Express media streamer along with the all new Roku Wireless Bass compact subwoofer designed to fill out the sound of the company’s diminutive Streambar or Roku TV Wireless Soundbar. The latest version of the Roku Express includes dual-band Wi-Fi…
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