ROKU STREAMING STICK PLEX PLUS

In previous years, we had real concerns about how hot the player got while it was in use, but we haven't had any issues with that with this year's model. This is a hugely handy feature when the family goes to bed and you don’t want to wake them up, and it’s something that very few other streaming devices have. Probably the coolest feature about the remote is that it has a 3.5mm auxiliary jack on the side of it that allows you to connect a pair of headphones for private listening. What sets the Ultra apart from other models in Roku’s lineup is that it comes with the voice remote with two programmable buttons that can be set for any button sequence. The Roku Ultra specs include a quad-core processor and 802.11ac dual-band wireless antenna that, according to Roku, helps expand the range of the player by twice the distance. Losing the MicroSD slot is a bummer, but it's not exactly a deal-breaker. This model doesn’t have the MicroSD card slot that can be used to store additional channels, however it does a USB port located on the back of the player that could be used as a connector for a USB drive like last year’s model.

ROKU STREAMING STICK PLEX PLUS

Spin it around to the back and you’ll find an HDCP 2.2 HDMI 2.0a port for video out – plus an ethernet port that we’ve already talked about – as well the power connector. Otherwise, there’s nothing else there that calls attention to itself.

There’s an IR receiver on the front, a remote finder on the right side, plus the distinctive purple Roku tag on the left side. The outside of the box doesn’t have much going on. At just a few inches wide by a few inches deep it’s obviously much smaller than, say, a Blu-ray player, and closer in size to the actual Blu-ray itself.

Design-wise, the Roku Ultra is a flat streaming video box that inconspicuously blends in with all your other AV equipment.

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