Roku’s New Ultra-Portable Streaming Sticks Are Ready for Summer Travel

Roku conscionable opened pre-orders for its revised Streaming Stick and Streaming Stick Plus players. These upgraded streaming devices, which commencement astatine $30, are "over 35% smaller" than Amazon's Fire TV Stick and whitethorn beryllium a useful enactment for predominant travelers.

These caller Streaming Sticks connection the aforesaid functionality arsenic Roku's erstwhile Express and Express 4K Plus players (and person replaced the Express devices successful Roku's lineup). So, the modular Roku Streaming Stick delivers 1080p video, comes with a dependable remote, and supports DTS Digital Surround audio. The Roku Streaming Stick Plus offers a 4K video solution with HDR enhancement, but otherwise, it's identical to the modular Roku Streaming Stick.

Those who privation 4K video with Dolby Vision tin upgrade to the Roku Streaming Stick 4K, which costs $50. But if you privation Dolby Atmos audio, you person to outpouring for the $100 Roku Ultra—the lone set-top container successful Roku's 2025 catalog.

On that note, Roku present sells conscionable 5 outer streaming devices. There's the caller Streaming Stick and Streaming Stick Plus, the older Streaming Stick 4K, the fancy Roku Ultra, and the Streambar SE streamer-in-a-soundbar. Three of these devices are super-slim "sticks," which are a much convenient enactment for wall-mounted TVs, astatine slightest from a cablegram absorption perspective. Roku besides wants to propulsion its Streaming Sticks arsenic a portable solution for travel, parties, and such—these are the smallest brand-name streaming devices disposable today, truthful it's a tenable income pitch, though it's a somewhat niche idea.

Since we're connected the taxable of portability, I should constituent retired that these caller Streaming Sticks inactive necessitate USB power. I don't cognize wherefore Roku omitted powerfulness cables from its merchandise photography and announcement video, but yeah, the portability income transportation is simply a small much analyzable than Roku is making it retired to be. To beryllium fair, the institution says that these devices are much businesslike than erstwhile Roku streamers (the cheapest Streaming Stick runs astatine conscionable 2.2 watts), truthful they should beryllium compatible with the USB ports connected practically each TVs.

Along with these caller Streaming Sticks, Roku has announced a trio of caller astute TVs with sizes up to 85 inches, an upcoming sports highlights strategy for the Roku OS location screen, and immoderate beefed-up astute information cameras.

Plus, Roku OS is yet coming to astute projectors. A "Roku TV Smart Projector notation design" is present disposable to spouse brands who volition (presumably) statesman selling Roku projectors wrong the adjacent twelvemonth oregon two. I'm blessed to spot that Android TV is yet getting immoderate existent contention successful the astute projector market, but I besides person a batch of complaints astir astute projectors, truthful I person mixed feelings astir this peculiar announcement.

Roku's caller Streaming Stick and Streaming Stick Plus are disposable for pre-order today. They outgo $30 and $40, respectively, and motorboat connected May 6th. If you privation to prevention a fewer bucks, I suggest that you bargain the now-discontinued Roku Express oregon Express 4K Plus, arsenic they're astir identical to the caller Streaming Sticks and are presently connected clearance astatine Amazon.

Source: Roku