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First Look: Roku TV

2014-01-07
hey guys Brian song here for CES 2014 and we're here at Roku's headquarters and behind me you see two TVs now we know Roku's player the Roku three box I mean amazing platform now they're bringing that platform and UI to two new TVs one from TCL and one from Hisense these are gonna come in variety of models but this is really their push to marry the UI with TV sets that are also making a big push in the US now one of the cool things here right you see the familiar Roku UI and you'll see all the channels that you're familiar with you have Netflix Hulu Pandora one channel that you may not be familiar with that is here it's official right the YouTube channel this is the YouTube channel from earlier you know at the end of December that is also in the box that's a big deal for Roku fans now also one of the cool things that they've done with this TV is really make it easy to access your inputs we don't think about TVs as inputs anymore here you'll see you have cable your game box or your blu-ray player they want to make that really a seamless transition and they've also thrown some cool bells and whistles in here like the sleep timer a lot of times you go to sleep your TV shuts right off here you get this kind of nice gentle fade now we know about Roku's remote that has that really cool headphone jack in there that's gonna be up to the manufacturers to decide if they want to integrate that into the product but you'll see here behind me the TV sets ranging in sizes from 32 inches to 55 inches there are no pricing details yet and also Roku is planning to work with other manufacturers but right now TCL and Hisense are the first two partners but there you go your first look at the Roku TV here at CES 2014
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