Roku Streaming Stick: Now more powerful, compact and with Roku OS 7.1
Roku Streaming Stick renews presenting a more compact model, with improved performance through the integration of the new quad-core processor and equipped with the new 7.1 version of Roku OS.
Roku is part of the rose of the four major manufacturers of devices dedicated to streaming media content. The US company sits next to Apple, Google and Amazon in the top of the league, as evidenced by the statistics released by Strategy Analytics.
Very popular in the States, Roku has managed to make its way slowly even in the market, or because of the possibility of finding its products in the online store, and thanks to the collaboration between Sky and Roku.
The company has renewed in recent hours the Streaming Stick presenting the new model that gives the change to the previous introduced in 2014. The evolution of the slot that connected to your home WiFi network and the TV via HDMI input, allows you to stream audio-video content, is divided into optimization of the form factor, the new model is more compact than the previous year and in the integration of a more performing quad-core processor that promises to deliver up to eight times higher than those recorded by the previous model.
To provide a yardstick, Roku stresses that the performances are superior to those of the Amazon Fire TV and Google Chromecast. Also improved the wireless industry that now boasts a Dual-Band MIMO module.
For those unfamiliar with the Roku multimedia keys, you can summarize the nature describing them as compact accessories, to be connected to the TV to make it ” smart ” models that are not such.
The key provides an interface rich in content user, provides access to Netflix and YouTube client, and allows users to view several channels for streaming movies and TV shows (there is to say that the offer is in the US market).
There’s also a renewal of the software platform with the arrival of Roku Streaming Stick in OS 7.1 pre-installed, and with functions for searching the content improved by the introduction of new categories.
For completeness of information, it is stated that the new release of Roku OS will be available in the form of update also for all other Roku devices. The new multimedia stick also tightens even more the relations with the Android and iOS smartphone via companion app updated in recent hours.
The app allows you to turn your smartphone into a virtual remote control to manage the key functions (which, for the avoidance of doubt. It is sold with a real physical remote control).
The new mobile app releases is a unique feature reserved for future buyers of the Streaming Stick, or the Private Listening, thanks to which you can listen to audio streamed the key to the Android and iOS smartphones using wireless or wired headphones.
The new Roku Streaming Stick does not change a parameter of the previous version, which is the price: $49.99 is sold. A figure which, as sufficiently contained, is 15 dollars higher than the price of Google Chromecast, product with which it comes in direct competition in the light of the form-factor analogue.
- Powerful quad core processor & best wireless performance
- Brilliant 4k, HDR, and HD streaming
- Voice remote with TV power & volume
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