Roku Express 4K | HD/4K/HDR Streaming Media Player, Black

Cheap, good quality, and with a simple to use and speedy interface that I've found is much easier for an elderly relative. It's not marred by ads. I've found the Wifi is perfectly adequate, but as a bit of a techie, I've also found that UGREEN USB to ethernet adapters are compatible with this to connect it to a router. The remote control is also very simple, and the HD video quality is up to par. Roku are very well regarded - what's not to like for the price?

Our old Roku box was showing its age being slow and no longer getting firmware updates. So, when we upgraded our lounge TV, we also purchased this 4K Roku box.Wow, what a difference - both in terms of speed of response and picture quality! Our main APPs are NowTV, the Roku Channel, PLEX, Discovery+, Pluto, and Prime Video. All work perfectly with no issues. Picture and sound quality are stunning.To be fair, modern smart TVs have many of these APPs inbuilt. However, they often don't include the Roku Channel, Pluto and PLEX. PLEX is particularly important to us as we have a large media database on our home NAS. It also supports a lot of interesting "live" streaming TV channels.Set up is straightforward and it took just a few minutes to get our favourite apps sorted - and the others removed. The WiFi connection is also much faster as dual band wireless is supported on this device (HD Roku boxes only support 2.4GHz WiFi). Getting a power adapter is handy too.The remote is simple to use. It is IR rather than Bluetooth but I have had no issues - as long as the Roku box is in line of sight. Indeed, my only minor gripe is that the supplied HDMI cable is rather short to ensure this line of sight visibility for the remote control. Fortunately, I had a spare 2m HDMI 2.2 cable that works a treat!All in all, at less than £30, I am very impressed with this little device. Indeed, I am about to buy another for our bedroom TV!The whole family is rather chuffed! 😁😁😁

Very good bit of tech. Plug it in to your USB port, and you get smart streaming TV features, with all the main apps, plus a few more obscure ones. Setup is pretty easy. Needs WiFi, obviously.

I have only had it for a few days so I have only just scratched the surface of what it can do. The first time I tried the BBC iPlayer app I was impressed by how smooth and fast it worked compared with the same app built into my old Panasonic TV and my TalkTalk YouView box. I can finally seek forward and back with confidence. The Roku is certainly a cheap way to upgrade an old TV that is otherwise still working fine. Apple AirPlay and Android casting also work well.Now comes the not-so-good points:To activate the device you need to provide a payment method. This is a source of irritation even though the payment method can be removed from the account afterwards.The accompanying smartphone app has a keyboard feature that is supposed to give you an easy way to enter text. It did not work when I tried to use it to log into apps such as All4.The search feature is supposed to search for content across the myriad of apps that the device supports. Unfortunately, the results are incomplete. For example, at the time of writing, Battlestar Galactica and Pretty Little Liars are available for free viewing on the BBC iPlayer, Nashville is on ALL4, yet a Roku search for these programmes only shows options that require subscription or payment. This has immediately made the optional Roku Voice Remote so much less appealing.The Roku Media Player is the app that plays videos from a DLNA server. While it handles mp4 content reasonably well, all transport controls fail when playing ts files (ts is the typically format for videos that are recorded from over-the-air broadcasts).

Really easy to use Roku. Works efficiently and remote is easy to use.And you can use your phone as a remote. On that app you can speak into your phone to search for whatever you want to watchIf you have good wifi it connects very wellDon’t hardly have any streaming issues

My TV is a 2017 Sony Bravia. Had lots of issues when it came to memory and online apps. I could only watch amazon til I had a memory error message and couldn’t update my TV. This Roku box has extended the life of my TV and I no longer need to consider replacing the aged Bravia because this Roku box has given it a new lease of life.Great value for money. The Picture is superb. Easy to set up to my wifi and join. The remote is easy to navigate and speed is perfect, I use Amazon, YouTube, Netflix,ITVx and I player all thru this and everything is how it should be. I should have brought one sooner and have been giving these as gifts to family members because it’s so good.

This is an amazing streaming media player tool. After trying the Amazon fire stick and having nothing but trouble with it until it eventually packed up I decided to try the Roku Express 4K. It turns on quickly and streams faultlessly. I would highly recommend this streaming devise.

Dead easy to set up and the picture quality is brilliant . Edit now I've used it for a while I am amazed at the detail in the set up, it would take me ages to weight it all up , just to say this little thing is absolutely amazing, wife thought she was looking at the programming of a device that costs many times the price