I love Roku os. It’s not bloated, extremely fast, and easy to use. They also update more frequently than any other OS. I have a TCL Roku tv that’s 7 years old and still receives updates.
Easily the best TV OS to me. The other ones you’re lucky to last a year before you need to buy a dedicated box. I also like how the Roku main screen isn’t as much of a cluttered mess in comparison.
I just bought an 85 in TCL Q7 w/ Google TV to replace my 75 inch TCL roku 6-series. I took it back. The Google TV OS was awful compared to Roku. It was so slow and choppy. My direct tv stream app was almost unusable. Roku is 50x better and faster. TCL sucks now
That really sucks, if I continue to buy TCL I'll make sure it's a model that offers Roku OS. Some models offer google or roku but it seems the Q series are now all Google OS.@@scottsworld21
Thank you for this review, this takes out this tv out of my selection of 3. Currently just waiting for the u7k mini led and the review of the omni qled by amazon, one of these too will be my first upgrade for a tv in 8 years.
This sounds a lot like the early offerings of the TCL 6 Series - good, but room for improvement. Should be interesting to see how much more the prices drop and how quickly.
Hi Caleb, thank you for all the great videos you and Digital Trends have been making recently. They’ve helped inform (perhaps over-inform?) my recent home theater shopping. Here’s a question I don’t think you’ve answered: What exact tv(s) and sound equipment do you use in your home? At the end of the day when you leave work and go home to kick back and relax, what are you watching and hearing? Thanks!
Our TCL 6 series already has burn-in, that will probably be my last TCL set. I'm a fan of Roku's OS, so I'm grabbing one of these today, I just want a decent set with decent sound that runs the Roku OS. This will be our main living room TV for a few years until Roku releases their own OLED.
I definitely get his point of view although there is no risk in marketing their own TV’s. Because there’s a possibility these TV companies themselves are detaching from Roku and streamlining their own Smart UI that partners with all these streaming services.
I'm really curious to see how well they do with sales. We already have TCL and Hisense and even Fire Tv by Amazon. I guess we will see sometime this year.
This is an easy one to figure out and on paper a smart move by Roku. Just look at how long smart TVs have been around and lately their starting to use their streaming apps rather well & efficiently. Buying a separate device that more or less does exactly what your tv does is a dwindling market. Apple TV at least has a niche as a HomeKit hub & pleases IOS fans etc. Roku needed to do something or risk going the route Lucente Technology went, aka not adapting with the times..
Jus gonna depend on if people wanna try Roku has a brand and not a software. Cuz you already have Hisense, tcl, roku sticks. So if Roku developed a good tv screen even outside of its QLED then it will get good sales. Otherwise people may still buy other budget brands or tcl 5 series with Roku
I purchased a Roku TCL tv, 55R625, series 6, over 4 years ago and I love it. I'm curious how Roku's newer TV line that they are now manufacturing compares? I think this TCL is brillant.
I think the Insignia F50 would be a decent competitor to this but it's on a great sale right now, just picked up a 50" for like $250 and I've been surprisingly impressed.
im tempted to get the same tv the have it for 259.99 at best buy but insignia brand doesnt have a good reputation.I hear hisense is the owner of it ,I guess with a warranty it can make up fr the worries if it fails.I know the hrd isnt that bright but does the oqled makea difference for regular programming thats not on hdr.
@@JoseOrtiz-pp1vm Insignia doesn't release who makes their panels, so I think that's a rumor but who knows. the F50 gets surprisingly bright, especially for the $, I was surprised I can't have the brightness all the way up at night (it's in our bedroom).
Back connection panel is laid out a lot like Walmart's Onn 4K. By the way, that might be a fun review, especially since the 65inch is on sale for under $300. Maybe you'll be surprised, maybe you can explain why people shouldn't buy such a cheap TV?
I hope the remote doesn't continuously drain the battery like the ones on my 4k stick and Now stick. Perhaps thats why they changed to rechargeable batteries instead of fixing the battery problem!
I bought the rechargeable Roku remote almost 2 months ago and haven’t had to recharge it yet. Also I’ve left the listening feature on the entire time which decreases battery life. So should last even longer with that turned off.
You still havent done any vidoes on the other roku tvs. I have a roku select series 50 inch and it is not bad. I did have a tcl rokutv s301 model i think and compard to that this is better since this is 4k and tcl tv was 720p. I have the settings for hd set mostly but people say different dtuff about sharpness. Movie mode it is 30 but ratings says sharpness should ve at 60. Should it be 50 which i assume is neutral setting? I have not figured out what micro contrast does on my select series. I cant see Any difference and it is on med now. Dynamic contest and noose reduction turned off and warm color temp. The hdr settings are what confuse me. I have no idea where to start with hdr and i don't think any of the thx optimizer i have on dvd would work for that. Not sure if i have any bluray with hdr calibration. Thougt about useing ps4 to do it but not sure how good rhat would be.
Thought during your CES coverage you hinted or outright said who makes it. Obviously Roku isn't manufacturing them, so is it TCL, or HiSense, or some other ODM?
Super interested in getting your take on the Sharp 4TC65FS1UR OLED Roku TV. I've seen conflicting reports on which OLED panel it uses, Samsung or LG. Would love to see it reviewed and measured against the other OLEDs on the market.
I'm looking for a 75 inch TV with Roku OS. What would you recommend now? I was looking at the Roku Select series and Plus Series. Doesn't seem anyone else is making TVs with Roku OS now...
Interesting, I was always pushing for hisense 65u7h but the price is not going down. July 4th sale, the roku plus 65 is at 599, 65u7h at best buy is 7.19 or 698 at amazon. Just curious if the Roku TV can be calibrated to match color accuracy of 65u7h?
If it stays at 600, It's much more expensive than the TCL 5 series. I'd have to see the stats on exactly if it can remove judder from 60 Hz sources, response time and upscaling to compare with U7H. There's also the 43-in Sony x85k which doesn't have local dimming but is much better at lower resolution sources.
The new pricing makes this a very attractive offer. $799 for a new 75 inch tv with my Preferred OS and more modern than my 6 year old tcl is a huge value proposition. I only wish it was 120hz
@@steveludwig4200 my local Best Buy had them for $799 at the time of my post. At $1000 I can see where you’re coming from. I’d wait until Black Friday and compare deals since it’s around the corner.
I rather have a cheaper tv. I have a Xbox Series X and 120hz in my gam room. The 120hz has been pretty pointless. A few games take advantage but I usually just go 60hz cause the visual downgrade isnt worth the 120fps
I had a Roku 2 and later a 3 back in the day and they both suffered from the HDCP warning issue where intermittently you would need to reboot the Roku to watch anything. This was a software issue that, to my knowledge, was never fixed and was widespread. Roku never admitted to the problem and their official advice was always that it was a problem with your HDMI cable - which was a blatant lie because if it were true, it would never work and you would always have the HDCP warning. Since that, I don’t think I would ever consider buying anything Roku branded again because in my eyes, they’re untrustworthy.
Unless I missed it no mention of hdmi 2.1 or if this has a Nextgen tuner. Excellent picture is a must but as a streaming centric device one might expect HDMI 2.1 and a Nextgen tuner.
Amazing... If ROKU could be able to export this tv with this dirt cheap prices in EU market it would be 50% cheaper than extremly overpriced models with similar specs from TCL and Hisense. And it would destroy seles of entry level models from Samsung (AU, BU, CU 7000&8000 series) and LG (UQ 7000, 7500, 8000) since they cost arround $600 for 55" size and arround $750-800 for 65" across Europe.
Not to be nit-picking here but neither one. I hereby put forward as an alternative “The Nitty-Gritty”. Numbers for Nit Nerds is, well, nerdy. Nit-Picking implies that one is being fussy and looking for faults in a pedantic way. The Nitty-Gritty implies getting into the details, the substance, the fundamentals of something.
I'd say if we're directly comparing to the U7H, the U7H would get the win here, especially if you're gaming at all. The native 120Hz panel and VRR are game changers. If I were in the market I'd try and stretch my budget just a bit to the U7H personally. I also really like Nit-picking. Simple and easy to remember. Simplicity wins.
Roku 75 inch costs $1000. SONY 75 inch X77L 75 inch costs $1000. Which TV is 99% of folks going to buy? Price the Rohu at $600 and maybe 50% would buy.
Found it impossible to connect Roku tv to a surround sound system…neither HDMI nor optical cables work. Absolutely aggravating, and their support is a joke.
After losing 500M$ in SVB Roku is going to need that hit if it wants to survive. Lack of complete HDMI 2.1 support/120Hz like my TCL Series 6 is a massive mistake. It's an entry level TV.
@@Noine14159145 if they are lucky they will recover everything once all insured are paid. But they are above the insured maximum so they are lesser priority.
Please, no “nitpickers." Nope. You are not a man challenged to make puns. You don't need to stoop for the ones that fall outta the bag onto the floor. But seriously, it sure looks like Roku is taking a page from the Google play book - producing Nexus phones with Samsung and LG and HTC - and then starting to produce their own Pixel phones themselves … learned a lot of lessons, picked up some tricks, made some connections and came out swinging with their own quality device.
