Roku Streambar Pro puts surround sound and 4K streaming in a single soundbar

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Roku Streambar Pro puts environment sound and 4K streaming in a single soundbar

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Alongside the Roku Limited 4K Plus, Roku Voice Remote Pro and the major Bone 10 software update, Roku also just appear the Roku Streambar Pro soundbar.

This is an upgraded, full-size successor to the compact Roku Streambar, promising a similar combination of built-in streaming services and voice controls only with a new design and added Virtual Surroundings audio.

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Roku Streambar Pro blueprint

Whereas the original Streambar was short and narrow, playing deeper into the clutter-saving aspects of combining a soundbar with a streaming device, the Streambar Pro spreads its drivers across a wider and more conventionally soundbar-shaped frame. Information technology's very much in the style of the older Roku Smart Soundbar and could exist a ameliorate fit for large TVs.

Its Roku Vox Remote has been upgraded, too: too as including personal shortcut buttons, it now features a headphone jack. The Streambar Pro besides comes bundled with Roku's new in-ear headphones, then you tin can plug them into the remote for private listening.

Every bit with the original Streambar's remote, you'll exist able to command the Os by speaking voice commands into its integrated microphone, too.

Roku Streambar Pro features

The Streambar Pro'south large new fob is Virtual Surround support, a new feature introduced in Roku OS 10 (and which volition be shared with the Smart Soundbar).

Roku hasn't specified how exactly this works, but Virtual Surround seems a lot like the beamforming systems other soundbars use to produce a digital surround audio upshot with only a single soundbar. Roku says it creates "spacious sound that moves around the room," and so while it'southward unlikely to rival Dolby Atmos for 3D immersion, Virtual Surround should bring more of a cinematic quality to your home theater without whatever additional speakers or cables.

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Naturally, the Streambar Pro will once again feature congenital-in 4K video streaming capabilities. Expect it to likewise take advantage of the many new tools in Roku OS 10 also, such every bit Instant Resume. If you'd previously stopped watching something partway through, this lets you spring dorsum in as soon equally yous select the same channel.

There's besides the new Alive TV Aqueduct Guide, which volition merely be available in the U.S. at starting time but which provides a much greater degree of command over which channels y'all tin hide or fix equally favorites.

Roku Streambar price and availability

The Roku Streambar Pro volition cost $179 when it releases on the Roku site at the end of May, and other retailers in June. That'due south $50 more than the Roku Streambar currently costs, though also a lot less than premium all-in-one soundbars like the Sonos Arc and Sonos Beam.

We'll be testing information technology as soon as possible and will give you our verdict then.

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James is currently Hardware Editor at Stone Paper Shotgun, but before that was Audio Editor at Tom's Guide, where he covered headphones, speakers, soundbars and anything else that intentionally makes noise. A PC enthusiast, he also wrote computing and gaming news for TG, usually relating to how hard it is to find graphics card stock.

Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/roku-streambar-pro-delivers-4k-streaming-and-surround-sound-for-less-than-sonos-beam

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