Roku has introduced the all-new 55-inch Polaroid Roku TV, and it’s solely accessible at Asda right here within the UK.
The brand new price range TV vary combines Polaroid’s TV {hardware} with Roku’s fashionable OS. The preliminary 55-inch 4K mannequin is priced at simply £349, however will increase to incorporate smaller and bigger display sizes later within the yr.
Moreover an built-in Freeview tuner offering a conventional terrestrial TV set-up, Roku’s involvement offers the Polaroid Roku TV full entry to the entire main and minor streaming companies – suppose Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Paramount+, and the like.
You can too entry fashionable music streaming companies by Roku OS, together with the likes of Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.
The brand new TV can also be appropriate with Airplay 2 for seamless iOS compatibility, so that you’ll have the ability to seamlessly push content material out of your iPhone. It’s additionally appropriate with fashionable voice assistants together with Apple Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant.
On the technical entrance, the Polaroid Roku TV helps Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Audio. When it comes to connectivity, its HDMI inputs help HDMI 2.0.
The Polaroid Roku TV 55-inch 4K mannequin is out there nationwide in Asda shops from at this time at a worth of £349.
This information follows on from the announcement final week of an reasonably priced vary of Sharp Roku TV units, with costs ranging between £150 and £450. Roku is clearly making a sustained play within the reasonably priced sensible TV market, with its likeable Roku OS offering a a lot slicker interface than you used to seek out in such an inexpensive tv set.