There’s plenty more from apps to games, to fitness and lifestyle channels – you can even choose a screensaver. The number tallies at more than a 1000, and as Roku’s products are platform agnostic, there are familiar faces in Netflix, Prime Video and Sky News, sitting alongside others I had no idea existed, such as the Dog Relaxation Channel. One of the best features, or perhaps most overwhelming, is how comprehensive Roku’s streaming devices are for content. Some may feel the interface is overly simplistic, but it’s clean and easy-to-use. The app also serves up voice search – a feature the remote doesn’t – which calls up results from the gargantuan number of channels available. Most importantly, it’s swift and responsive. The keyboard function makes search quicker you can cast music, photos or videos and there’s a curated selection of content.
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At the bottom are buttons for Netflix, Google Play, Rakuten TV and Spotify, and if you’d rather just use the TV remote, the Roku Premiere supports the HDMI CEC standard.Īnother means of control is over Wi-Fi through the Roku app, available on Android and iOS. The remote is a simple affair with home, navigation, playback and return keys, but no volume controls. You can add more channels and move them around for quicker access if you select them and press the star button on the remote. Home is where you’ll spend most of your time. Streaming Channels offers access to 1000+ channels, and in Settings you can add payment methods, pair devices etc. My Feed is where you can track films and have alerts set up for when they pop up on various apps/channels. Home is where the main streaming providers are located. The main screen is divided into Home, My Feed, Search, Streaming channels and Settings. Once you’ve connected everything, placed the Premiere player where you want and set it up on the wireless network, you’re done. From normal viewing distances, it’s just about noticeable. There’s a white LED light on Premiere’s front that’ll flash for connection problems or turn red for power issues. If the cable can’t reach the mains, it can draw juice from the TV’s USB port instead. Handily, HDMI and micro-USB cables are bundled in the box, and for power there’s an adaptor. On the back are USB and HDMI connections, the latter requiring a HDCP 2.2 compliant port.
But its small size makes it easy to place, whether that’s on top of the TV or on the side thanks to a double-sided adhesive strip that comes in the box. It’s diminutive size means it’s dwarfed when beside a TV. It’s not a streaming stick, nor is it a hockey puck/box – think of it as like a small chocolate bar. DesignĪs a streaming player, the Premiere has unconventional looks. With that in mind, is it a bargain basement buy or is the Roku Premiere less the sum of its streaming parts? A bit of both, in turns out. It’s one of the cheapest entry points to 4K HDR streaming, slotting in-between the budget Roku Express and Streaming Stick Plus. The Roku Premiere arrives as part of the streaming giant’s recent refresh of its devices.
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