Roku Launches OS 11.5 and New Software Features, Making Streaming More Seamless Than Ever
12 September 2022 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Updates to the Roku OS span Audio, Voice, and
Content Discovery, with features like Continue Watching, a
platform-wide Save List, The Buzz, and more
Today, Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU) announced the latest
enhancements coming to Roku’s operating system, giving users a more
convenient and efficient experience for discovering, accessing, and
streaming entertainment. In the coming months, the company will
introduce an all-new content discovery experience, The Buzz, to the
Roku Home Screen Menu as well as two significant updates to its
What to Watch feature, Continue Watching and an expanded
platform-wide Save List. Roku is also making updates to Roku Voice,
expanding Bluetooth Private Listening, easing navigation within the
Live TV Channel Guide with the addition of categories, and offering
more content discovery tools, among many other features.
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Additionally, Roku announced two new products that offer a
seamless streaming and audio experience at an even more accessible
price: an all-new Roku Wireless Bass and the 2022 Roku Express.
“We are in the golden age of streaming with more great shows and
movies releasing than ever before, which at times we know can be
overwhelming,” said Preston Smalley, Vice President of Consumer
Product. “By personalizing the way our customers connect with
the content they love and offering more ways to discover and access
new content to stream or save for later, our users have more tools
than ever to watch what they want to with ease.”
New features coming to Roku devices in the following months
include:
Roku Home Screen Menu
- The Buzz: The newest addition to the Roku Home Screen
Menu, The Buzz brings a new discovery experience to the biggest
screen in the house. Users can quickly browse a frequently updated
collection of posts featuring entertainment-centric, short-form
content from popular streaming services and entertainment brands,
such as AMC+, Apple TV+, BET+, Crackle, Hallmark Movies Now, IGN,
Plex, Popcornflix, SHOWTIME®, Starz, The CW, Tubi, Vevo, and
Wondrium, with more to come. Posts within The Buzz may include
video clips, images, trailers, interviews, and other content to
help users discover movies and shows that match their interests.
Users can engage with content featured in The Buzz by liking posts,
saving content to watch later, following profiles to view future
posts, or immediately streaming the movie or show featured in the
post.
- Continue Watching: Designed to make streaming on
Roku even more convenient, Continue Watching makes it easier than
ever for users to resume watching TV shows and movies they were
previously streaming. Located within What to Watch on the Roku Home
Screen Menu, Continue Watching gives users a single location to
jump back into the content they are watching, from a selection of
streaming channels including HBO Max, Netflix, Paramount+, and The
Roku Channel, with more channels to come.
- Save List: Users can now easily save movies and shows
from across the Roku platform to create a Save List of content they
want to stream later. Located within What to Watch on their Home
Screen Menu, as well as the Roku Mobile App, the new Save List
provides a single destination for users to quickly access and
stream content they’ve previously saved. Users will see a “Save”
option on movie and TV show details pages, allowing them to save
that title to their list with a press of a button. Today's update
is an expansion of the previously launched Save List within The
Roku Channel and the Roku Mobile App.
- Roku Store: Our newest addition to the Roku Home Screen
Menu, Roku Store will be a more visual, immersive destination for
users to browse, search, and add free and paid channels to their
devices. Within the Roku Store, users will also be able to navigate
through different categories to easily find and shop for new
streaming content. The Roku Store will appear on devices in the
coming months and will be expanded over time to offer users a more
streamlined and integrated shopping experience on the Roku
platform.
Roku Audio
- Bluetooth Private Listening: Roku is expanding Bluetooth
Private Listening to be compatible with our newest Roku Ultra, Roku
Streambar, and Roku Streambar Pro. Users can simply pair their
headphones from the Sound Setting menu and start listening to
content privately. This is an update to Roku’s Private Listening
feature, which currently allows users to listen to their TV through
headphones connected to Roku’s premium remotes or paired through
the Mobile App.
Roku Voice
- Roku is adding new visual tools onscreen to help customers get
to their desired channel destination while using Roku Voice. When
using this feature, users will now see a display on their screen
showing channel options relevant to their voice search. From there,
customers can simply say or select the option they want and start
streaming.
Content Discovery
- Categories in Roku's Live TV Channel Guide:
Categories within the Live TV Channel Guide will enable customers
to discover and jump into their favorite Live TV content with new,
easy-to-navigate content categories. For a more personalized
experience, customers can browse through three new Categories:
Recents, Favorites, and Subscribed, where they can save their
favorite channels, circle back to their recently watched content,
or quickly get to their Premium stations from The Roku Channel.
Customers can also browse through a selection of Live TV genres
including News, Sports, Movies, Entertainment, Kids, Crime, Music,
and En Espanol, all of which will be automatically populated based
on the Live TV content in The Roku Channel available in those
categories.
- Live TV Channel “Guide” button: Roku is introducing a
dedicated Live TV Channel “Guide” button on the mobile app remote,
so that customers can see what is playing live on their TV with a
tap of a button. With our new “Guide” button, customers can
instantly launch the Live TV Channel Guide, where they can find
Live TV channels, browse for content to watch, and search our new
Categories. The Guide button within the Roku Mobile app will only
be available when connected to a Roku TV with OS 11.5 in supported
regions.
Availability
Roku OS 11.5 and today’s announced software features will roll
out to Roku devices in the coming months.
About Roku, Inc.
Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the
streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and
monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique
capabilities to engage consumers. Roku streaming players and
TV-related audio devices are available in the U.S. and in select
countries through direct retail sales and licensing arrangements
with service operators. Roku TV™ models are available in the U.S.
and in select countries through licensing arrangements with TV
brands. Roku is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. U.S.A.
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are based on our beliefs and assumptions and on information
currently available to us on the date of this press release.
Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks,
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statements include but are not limited to those related to the
availability, features, functionality, and attributes of the Roku
Ultra and Roku Voice Remote Pro; the roll-out timing, benefits,
features, functionality, impact, and content made available by Roku
OS 11, as well as the features, benefits and reach of the Roku
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could cause our actual results to differ materially are detailed
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year ended December 31, 2021 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended March 31, 2022. Copies of reports filed with
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Press contact: Roku, Inc. Brigite Gilbert
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