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Anyway, today we're talking about Roku.
I'm here with Jojo from Roku.
He's kind of run me through a few of the things that are coming up, or have already.
We talked last year about the antenna data.
As of about a year ago, you can hook in an over-the-air antenna and it will provide data
on those channels 14 days previously and 14 days after so you can have a guide just like
you're used to on cable or satellite, or something like that.
So, that's really cool.
But this year, we've got even more coming out.
Jojo, run us through one of the new things coming out this year.
Yeah, so, this year, what we're doing is releasing the Quantum Dot panel.
This is the first quantum dot TV that we're releasing.
And then, this is a 75-inch.
This is going to have more free features for consumers.
So, what we're going to have is featured free; it's more content driven.
We're going to have deep linking for the channels, you know, like the Roku channels.
One of the most popular Roku channels that we have—streaming channels—you can now
subscribe to all those premium channels, such as Starz, HBO, and so on.
So, all of those will be available.
You will be receiving one bill for it.
So, the featured free channel, an option in your menu if you go to the left side of your
Roku menu.
After the software update about a month ago, there's now a new option for "featured free."
Now, this kind of ties into one of my all-time favorite things about Roku.
It is service agnostic.
So, it doesn't matter if you're big into the Amazon ecosystem, or you know, Google, or
what have you.
It ranks all of the shows you want to watch by price.
Well now, you don't have to search for those things.
You can go to the "featured free" menu item and it's going to pull together some of the
most popular items for you.
And it will obviously tell you which services have that for free.
But then the other thing you mentioned was premium channels.
Uh, I know we've got Starz on the docket, maybe not HBO yet, but maybe that's coming.
Right.
What you can do, is order a single show, or perhaps a movie on those.
Then instead of going to sign up for Starz, and you've gotta create a login, and you've
gotta put in your credit card information.
You just do that with Roku once and then they're going to pull all of that billing for you
and do it for you.
Right?
That's correct.
Also, I wanted to add that by the middle of this year we're releasing the Far Field Technology
with the Roku TV.
So, now you'll be able to talk to your television.
To turn off, to play a movie on a certain channel, and so on.
Play music through it.
So, that's all going to come at the middle of the year.
And then we also released the speaker systems—the stereo speakers.
There are two speakers this year.
You can hook it up with the Roku TV and then now you'll have premium sound.
Awesome, yeah.
That just means you're freeing up one more HDMI port that you don't have to, or whatever
it is you use—USB, to plug in Alexa or Google Home...
You don't have to worry about that now.
It's all integrated.
You just say, "Hey Roku, change the channel."
"Hey Roku, put on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
Becuase that's what you're watching now.
So, yeah, that's pretty cool.
Any other features that I need to be aware of?
Or that we need to be aware of?
No, that's the feature that we're releasing this year.
Awesome.
Well, this, right behind me.
This 75-inch was released last month.
So, now it's the biggest Roku TV I've seen.
It's the TCL 75-Inch.
So, if you're curious, you can go check that out.
We'll put a link to that in the description below, if you want to go check it out.
Some exciting things happening in 2019.
I hope you're excited.
I know I am.
Because like I said, I'm a huge fan on Roku.
If you have any questions about it, let me know in the comments below and we'll do our
best to answer them.
Thanks for watching, guys.
We'll see you at the next booth.