Review: Roku Streambar Offers Great 2-For-1 Value Performance
Roku this week officially released the Roku Streambar as the latest addition to the company’s growing line of affordably priced sound-for-video components with built-in Roku media streaming. Think of the Roku Streambar ($129.99 suggested retail) as a more compact alternative to the company’s longer Roku…
Review: Roku Ultra 2020 Gets Snappier, Brings Dolby Vision
Today, Roku is making available the 2020 version of its flagship premium Roku Ultra HDMI-connected set-top media streamer, and we believe many people dissatisfied with the way they get streaming apps and content will find this a good add-on solution. The good news is that…
Review: Samsung 65Q80T Offers Good Value For A QLED TV
In our continuing review of Samsung’s 2020 4K Ultra HD QLED TV lineup, we found the Q80T series to be a decent mid-range 4K performer at a nicely competitive price for a Samsung TV. However, there is a marked down grade in brightness from Samsung’s…
Review: Xiaomi Mi TV Stick Brings Android TV To Your Pocket
Xiaomi is one of the world’s fastest growing TV brands; it just hasn’t brought those devices to the U.S. yet, but it’s been offering the next best thing with a line of “Mi TV” branded Android TV-based media streamers and set-top boxes. At the end…
Review: Denon DHT-S216 Soundbar Offers Affordable TV Audio Boost
Sound United’s Denon brand is perhaps best known for its excellent upper mid-range home theater audio components, but with the new DHT-S216 $249 budget soundbar, the company is stretching its expertise to bring the value of better sound-fidelity to a wider audience, and as our…
Review: Nvidia Shield TV Streams Brilliant 4K/HDR
Last week we received the new standard (tubular design) Nvidia Shield TV streaming media player based on the Android TV OS and what we found was a slick, speedy performer with lots of apps supporting native 4K/HDR content, a fantastic remote, great gaming responsiveness and…
Review: Polk Legend L200 Bookshelf Speakers Sing
Over the years Polk Audio has built a reputation for developing affordable speakers with clarity and depth of sound, and the L200 mid-sized bookshelf models in the brand’s new flagship Legend series takes that legacy a big step further. We found the speakers have high…
Review: New Roku Ultra Makes Streaming Faster
With the seven-model 2019 Roku media player line shipping this month, we were eager to test the new flagship Roku Ultra model (4670x) and after using it for a couple of days now we weren’t disappointed. The latest version of the Roku Ultra retains the…
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