Roku’s Streambar is a compact soundbar with built-in streaming smarts

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A year hindmost Roku communicated its Smart Soundbar, the hairdo is back-up with the Streambar, which combines a meaty soundbar with a 4K / HDR streaming device. It's uniform with all the apps as well as casework you'd lasso from Roku, as well as it combines this with four full-range speaker drivers to fill your militant room with stereo audio. The soundbar was communicated today coextending the updated Roku Ultra streaming box, which now supports Dolby Vision. The Streambar will retail for $129.99 (?129) as well as ships in mid-October.

The big discongruity betwixt the Streambar as well as Roku's progenitor Soprano Soundbar is size. While the rudimental soundbar was over 32 inches long, the new Streambar is under bisected that at 14 inches. Its taper spaciousness should make it easier to fit into taper militant rooms or coextending bedroom TVs.

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The Streambar includes four full-range drivers.

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Around the back, there's an HDMI, optical audio, as well as USB port.

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Otherwise, the Streambar's specs are widely similar to the Soprano Soundbar. It connects to your TV via HDMI ARC or optical audio, as well as it has a Bluetooth receiver as well as suture for Spotify Graft if you want to watercourse music. There's additionally a USB port on its back-up if you want to sling in a USB stick or external infrangible bulldoze to spectacle engaging locally, as well as this port can additionally be acclimated for Ethernet with an adapter. If you're in the US, then like the Soprano Soundbar, you can pair it with Roku's wireless speakers as well as subwoofer to give yourself a beleaguer sound setup.

Also like the Soprano Soundbar, the Streambar includes software audio gloss for a deuce of mismatched use cases. There's one that makes speech easier to lasso as well as discretional that levels out the aggregate latitude the engaging you watch to renege the aggregate of loud commercials. There's additionally a night mode so you can lasso the TV after well-reasoned others in the house. All of this is controlled with an included Roku articulation remote.

The Streambar supports up to 4K engaging as well as HDR via the HDR10 as well as HLG standards. Audio formats trig lend PCM as well as Dolby Audio. Suture for Dolby Eyes as well as Dolby Atmos aren't included substance morally can be found in the new Roku Ultra. The Streambar integrates with Alexa, Google Assistant, as well as will be one of Roku's devices that's getting HomeKit as well as AirPlay 2 support.

The Streambar will be husbandless in the US, Canada, Mexico, as well as the UK as well as is husbandless to preorder starting today.