Customer Reviews for Roku - Refurbished Excellent - Ultra | 4K/HDR/Dolby Vision Streaming Device and Voice Remote Pro with Rechargeable Battery - Black
Customer Rating
5
Great features
on May 12, 2023
Posted by: Cindi
from Montana
I bought it for a Christmas present for my husband. I’m still trying to get him to beat rid of our Direct TV
A online review of alternatives to regular cable TV is what got me interested in it. I then heard the Ultra has the best ports and Wi-Fi reception so I bought it in a store.
I have top of the line home theater products, including Bravia TV, Denon Amplifier and Klipsch speakers. During setup, the Roku could not identify my TVs resolution, so the Roku defaults to 720 (my TV does 1080p.) There is no way to set the resolution on the Roku. If the Roku can't identify your TV, then you're stuck with 720 resolution and you've just wasted your money.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from roku.comBy Rebecca, Roku Customer Advocate, May 15, 2023
Hi Rich, you're in luck! There is a way to manually change the resolution rate on your Roku player if the auto-detection got it wrong. To do so, navigate to your Roku player's homescreen. On the left-hand navigation, scroll down to Settings > Display type and select the desired1080p TV option. This should help but should you need any further assistance, visit our helpful FAQ article online: https://support.roku.com/article/115009246867.
This is the 4th Roku we have purchased. We now have them on all of our tvs. This one is a smaller footprint but still delivers smooth and fast streaming as is the best thing about Roku. It was easy to set up and have had no issues with it at all so far. The voice feature is nice so as not to have to use the letters which takes forever. Also nice to have the earbud jack right on the side of the remote. Brilliant feature by Roku. My husband often wants to watch things that I don't, so he can listen to them without disturbing what I am doing in the same room. This one is an upgrade to the Roku 4 which we had for many years, which still works fine, (we use it on a smaller tv), but we wanted the updated features. All of the older ones we have still work fine on our other tvs. I can't say enough about how much we like our Rokus and the picture quality of course is outstanding over cable or regular tv antenna. We would never use any other streaming player.
This was an upgrade from a previous model. Speed/responsiveness has greatly improved. My only gripe is the lack of support on the remote to control to use the audio for devices other than the TV. Soundbars and home theater set ups still require a second remote. Fix this problem and the device would be just about perfect.