Roku Pro Series TV Review: Bright and Easy to Use

When my husband and I swapped retired our Vizio OLED for Roku’s Pro Series QLED and switched it on, some of america gasped. Even my 2 children (7 and 9) were mesmerized erstwhile they turned connected Steven Universe. “Why does it look truthful overmuch better now?” my girl asked.

The quality betwixt OLED and QLED is palpable (as you tin besides work successful our How to Buy a TV guide). OLED exertion is beautiful, but it lends itself to genuinely achromatic blacks; it’s champion if you’re watching movies oregon gaming successful an optimized, dark, home-theater-like environment. A QLED is conscionable … brighter. That makes a immense quality erstwhile you’re 7 and 9, watching cartoons portion jumping connected the sofa and waiting for dinner, oregon erstwhile you’re a ma who is trying to drawback a spot of the Copa America games connected the sofa with her canine portion working.

This is the archetypal of Roku’s in-house-made TVs (Roku TVs made earlier past twelvemonth were made by different companies, conscionable with a Roku brain). My workfellow Parker Hall tested the entry-level Roku TV, the Plus Series, and was precise impressed. For a period now, my household and I person been investigating the upgraded Roku Pro Series and person besides been thrilled.

User Friendly

Specs and show aside, 1 of the main reasons you bargain a Roku anything is due to the fact that of however casual it is to use. I truly liked my Vizio OLED and conscionable accepted that each clip I turned it on, I'd person to walk 5 minutes sorting done the Vizio Smart interface and fiddling with cables if I wanted to play connected my gaming PC.

It was with a heavy suspiration of alleviation that I plugged successful my Sonos soundbar, PS5, and gaming PC into the Roku TV and watched everything conscionable … amusement up successful the Roku interface. (It has 2 HDMI 2.1 ports, HDMI eARC, USB-A, USB-C, and cablegram inputs.)

Although you can equine it, I conscionable placed it connected our console array with the 2 included feet and it acceptable easily. Adding each your apps—Netflix, Disney+, Fubo—takes astir arsenic agelong arsenic clicking connected the Add Channels fastener and signing successful connected your computer, which is fundamentally zero clip unless you’ve forgotten your login information.

Having an easy-to-navigate interface besides makes it overmuch easier to fig retired different things to watch. Vizio’s interface was truthful cluttered that my kids often conscionable went consecutive to Steven Universe. On Roku’s, the CuriosityStream and PBS Kids tiles are truthful casual to find that they ended up watching much acquisition contented conscionable retired of, well, curiosity. That was an unexpected acquisition successful summer, erstwhile each the vicinity kids conscionable extremity up watching TV astatine our location successful the air-conditioning.