Giving 5 stars, because I already like Roku. We clipped the cord years ago and have been happier watching TV without cable. I thought I needed a new TV, because I was experiencing a lot of buffering. The boss told me to update to a newer Roku. Almost no buffering, better definition, and the headphones are a nice option. Wanted to share.

I posted a review a couple of days ago where I talked about issues I had with a new Roku Ultra. At first I had problems with the signal dropping on and off and gave Roku a pretty dismal review. Well, after I played around with possible reasons I decided to replaced the HDMI cable. Sure enough that was the real culprit, the Ultra works perfectly now, and I find myself needing to retract my first review and apologize to Roku for my error. I find myself pleased to admit I was wrong, because in the past I had been a stalwart fan of Roku products, and couldn't believe they could have made a defective device. I am such a huge fan that I had actually purchased two Roku's for my Mother in law, which she loves. Roku thanks for being fantastic as always.

Just received the Roku Ultra today 5/12/20 no issues during setup. I have the Roku 3 for a few years now and its still going strong. The Ultra remote has features I was looking for like controlling the TV volume/powering it off and on and happy it works with my 10 year old Vizio. Maybe soon I can afford a 4K TV to take advantage of all the Ultra

I've had Roku devices for many years. I've currently got 4 running right now and stream exclusively using these devices. While most of the time, they work great, there are some frustrating moments. I'll focus on the problems with these devices and leave other reviews to sing the praise. Problem 1 - remote just goes nuts at times. At least several times a week, the remote refuses to work. None of the buttons respond. Pulling the batteries and plugging back in seems to always correct the problem. No idea what its doing or why it forgets the remote. I could use the remote, sit it down, pick it back up 5 minutes later and the remote not work. Something poor on design there. Problem 2 - remote refuses to operate the TV periodically. Every so often, the remote claims it doesn't work with TVs. I guess that volume switch on the side is supposed to be for looks at that moment in time. Even though the volume button may have worked 30 minutes ago, TV support is apparently not supported until I reboot the device. This is a bigger pain than when it refuses to see the remote (#1 above). Luckily this only seems to happen once every couple of weeks. Problem 3 - For whatever brain dead reason at Roku, they decided the auto power off feature that is available on my 4 year old Roku 4 can't be supported on the newest Ultra 2019 model. According to their support page, they have some excuse about a fan. What does that have to do with anything? Obviously in this day and age of streaming, internet usage and caps, you don't want to forget and leave your streaming device on. This is the biggest and most stupid decision I can imagine on Roku's technical front. Hey, lets make a streaming device, give older models a way to turn off automatically and then drop it. Overall, I happier than I'm dissatisfied with the devices. Maybe mainly because I don't really have many, if any, alternatives. The apps built into TVs are just sad at best on most models. I'll keep using these until someone knocks them off the shelf. Maybe they'll focus on their hardware more than trying to be a streaming provider one day in the future and get back to innovating.

I had the first generation Roku when they first came out. I got the ultra and a streaming stick. The ultra is fast the stick is very slow. I got a second ultra for my second house. Can not speak for the head phone usb / sd inputs or the remote finder, these are worthless features for me. I wanted the fast processor and these ultra deliver

Overall, this is a great media streaming device! Two things I would like to see added to future versions: 1. Gigabit Ethernet Port (up to 10Gbps) 2. Bluetooth for wireless headsets and sharing devices. I'm sure 8k support will be coming soon, which will be a great addition as well!

I bought heavily into the Roku ecosystem because it had great hardware, an even better UI and it let all publishers put apps on their devices. No more. Because of Roku's now closed ecosystem, I cannot access Peacock or HBO Max on my Roku player. What a betrayal. Consequently, I have purchased my last Roku product. Chromecast is worse in every other way but at least I can access all content.

I bought this in Nov 2019 and it has worked perfectly ever since. It is extremely quick, has great picture quality, easy to use, and may have only frozen a couple of times over 10 months. This is highly recommended. I don't have any battery issue... but I alternate with another remote. My remote finder works as it should. I have used 3 other streamers over the past 5 years... but I will never buy a non-Roku streamer again. Thanks Roku.

I use both of my ULTRA players often. They are faster than I can push the remote and once set-up, you can streamline it so that everything flows with ease. Everything from YouTube to all of my movies on VUDU to Disney+Plus are all right there and with ease. I've had other streaming players but this is the BMW of them all.

Got this higher priced model (Ultra) for the feature of (lost remote finder). It doesn't work when needed. It works only when the remote has been used in the last 6 seconds. After 9 seconds of not using the remote, it goes into a deep sleep. I'm returning it for a cheaper model.