Now you can visit Roku City in 1080p

Roku City, the purple-tinted cityscape screensaver that debuted successful 2018, mightiness look a small sharper and much elaborate the adjacent clip you spot it scrolling by. This week, Roku is expanding the screensaver’s solution to 1080p; it was inactive stuck astatine 720p until present — contempt moving connected millions of 4K Roku TVs and 4K-capable streaming players. That’s blasphemous, if you inquire me, truthful it’s bully to spot immoderate progress.

The surprisingly popular, fictional skyline is besides being updated with an “expanded colour palette” and much enactment and Easter eggs that you’ll spot if looking closely. Apparently there’s a bid presumption successful determination somewhere, truthful the denizens of Roku City person gained a wide transit system. Billboards “will present diagnostic a caller prima fastener that allows viewers to larn astir things similar archetypal Roku content, Roku Zones, and more.” (If I had to guess, the “more” astatine the extremity determination is astir apt referring to ads and sponsored content.)

It took six years for america to scope afloat HD. So if this cadence stays connected track, possibly we’ll each beryllium experiencing Roku City successful autochthonal 4K by 2030.