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The Roku Express 4K+, Roku Express 4K, Roku Ultra (2020), and Chromecast with Google TV all get HDR10+.

Roku’s new Devices Support 4K, HDR, and a Voice Remote Roku announced the all-new Roku Express 4K+ on Tuesday morning, which offers 4K streaming and HDR support, alongside the all-new Roku Voice Remote Pro, and Roku OS 10 OS. “We are dedicated to providing users the simplest way to stream entertainment to their TV at an affordable price,” said Mark Ely, Vice President, Retail Product Strategy at Roku. “The new Roku Express 4K+ is a huge value in 4K streaming as 4K has become a benchmar...

The usual extravaganza of tech may portend the future of the virtual trade show.

Mae Anderson Every January, huge crowds descend on Las Vegas for the CES gadget show, an extravaganza of tech and glitz intended to set the tone for the coming year in consumer technology. CES kicks off this week, but thanks to the pandemic, it will be in a radical new format — a “virtual” show taking place only in cyberspace. Yes, that means everyone can still get a glimpse of the future, but only by via technology of the future — aka video streams and chat. If all goes well, attendees...

Hundreds of smaller, startup tech firms will still use the multiday event, which runs through Thursday, to unveil projects and plans to pique the interest of consumers, as well as investors. But these face-to-face meetings will take place in cyberspace instead. Speakers such as Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and GM CEO Mary Barra will address more than 150,000 attendees remotely, with some speeches and panel discussions broadcast from a video production studio on Microsofts Redmond, Washington, ca...

The wireless connection in Roku’s design utilizes Wi-Fi, but in a point-to-point fashion between the soundbar and the TV, instead of sending the audio from the TV to the soundbar over your home’s Wi-Fi network. In a conversation with Roku’s VP of Product Strategy Mark Ely earlier this week, I learned that the specification uses a lossless lossy codec for streaming, but Ely wasn’t able to tell me whether the company was using FLAC or something else. I wasn’t able to learn the resoluti...