{"id":25710,"date":"2016-09-26T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=25710"},"modified":"2016-09-26T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:20:00","slug":"roku-undercuts-chromecast-price-announces-cheap-4k-streamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/roku-undercuts-chromecast-price-announces-cheap-4k-streamer\/","title":{"rendered":"Roku undercuts Chromecast price, announces cheap 4K streamer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shifting price points downward on the company’s lineup of streaming set-top boxes, Roku is launching<\/a>\u00a0a $30, 1080p streaming stick called the Roku Express as well as a $80 4K streaming set-top box called the Roku Premiere. \u00a0This both undercuts Google’s $35 Chromecast streaming device as well as Amazon’s\u00a0$30 Fire TV streaming stick.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, they are also going after consumers that don’t have televisions with HDMI ports yet. The Roku Express+ ($40) includes options for consumers that want to use simple A\/V inputs rather than HDMI. It would be ideal for consumers that\u00a0are still using televisions made more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n

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Moving up to the 4K set-top box, the\u00a0Roku Premiere streaming 4K content at 60 frames per second and comes with a line-of-sight remote. For an additional $20 at a $100 price point, the\u00a0Roku Premiere+ supports HDR (for a wider range of colors) and includes an wired Ethernet port as well as the “point-anywhere” remote with the headphone jack.<\/p>\n

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On the high end, Roku is launching a Roku Ultra at $130. It has everything that the\u00a0Roku Premiere+ offers in addition to voice searching, a remote finder and a digital optical audio output for anyone that prefers that audio format when pushing out to a receiver. That model basically replaces the Roku 4 flagship model.<\/p>\n

If you are looking for a 4K player for your new 4K television, you may want to wait until after October 4, 2016 when Google is expected to announce a couple of streaming player upgrades. The rumored “Chromecast Ultra” will stream 4K content to televisions for a possible price of $70, $10 cheaper than the\u00a0Roku Premiere. It’s not clear if the Chromecast Ultra will also support HDR.<\/p>\n

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Which streamer do you use? Tell us in the comments below.<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shifting price points downward on the company’s lineup of streaming set-top boxes, Roku is launching\u00a0a $30, 1080p streaming stick called the Roku Express as well as a $80 4K streaming set-top box called the Roku Premiere. \u00a0This both undercuts Google’s $35 Chromecast streaming device as well as Amazon’s\u00a0$30 Fire TV streaming stick. Interestingly, they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1532,539,46,45,1386,1598,1599,48],"class_list":["post-25710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-amazon-instant-video","tag-hulu","tag-netflix","tag-roku","tag-roku-4","tag-roku-exdpress","tag-roku-ultra","tag-streaming-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25710"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25720,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710\/revisions\/25720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}