Roku Ultra 2017 review—More of the same, but even better

HDR and speed

Roku has been playing the 4K game for two years now, and it didn’t wait too long to add HDR support that is the current industry buzzword with support appearing last year. With support up to 60fps, the Roku Ultra can easily take center stage in your home entertainment center for years to come.

While the Ultra retained its USB support – the only model from the company to continue to support external media – it did lose its optical audio output. The Ultra still does quite a bit, but that is definitely a mark against it this time around.

With the USB port, you can play your own media thankfully with support for a variety of formats. For video it supports H.264/AVC (.MKV, .MP4, .MOV), H.265/HEVC (.MKV, .MP4, .MOV); VP9 (.MKV) and for audio you’ll find AAC (.MKV, .MP4, .MOV); MP3(.MP3, .MKV); WMA (.ASF, .WMA, .MKV), FLAC (.FLAC, .MKV), PCM (.WAV, .MKV, .MP4, .MOV), AC3/EAC3 (.MKV,.MP4. .MOV, .AC3), DTS (.MKV, .MP4, .MOV), ALAC (.MKV, .MP4, .MOV, .M4A). If you want to show off your photos, you can display JPG, PNG and GIF, but alas, no animated GIFs.

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