What Roku Product to Buy for My TV
I purchased a Roku Streaming Stick + a few years ago. I want to purchase one for another TV. But I don't see the Stick + on their website. Was the name of the product changed? Thanks
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I would stay away from the streaming sound bars. While the video stream is superb, their sound quality is not that great compared to competitor's bars on the market. And with a Roku streaming soundbar something weird happens. It appears that they only pass the video stream to the TV, but not the sound. Sound is modulated in the soundbar and apparently not passed on. There might be some setting to circumvent that, but I was unsuccessful with my old Emerson TV and the Roku bar after hours of trying various settings on the TV and the Roku device. That means that your optical or other sound out ports on the TV will not carry any sound when using a Roku streaming bar. This might be on purpose and a Roku marketing strategy which circumvents you from enjoying external high quality sound and are forced to buy only Roku's compatible speakers and sound bar extensions.
You won't have the problem with a regular Roku streaming stick or streaming "brick". Here, the sound outputs from your TV will actually function, as I have experienced.
My soundbar will be mailed back for a refund!
DrK1 wrote:And with a Roku streaming soundbar something weird happens. It appears that they only pass the video stream to the TV, but not the sound. Sound is modulated in the soundbar and apparently not passed on.
Of course it's not going to pass the sound to the TV. If it did that, why bother with a soundbar? Just get a regular Roku player. That's the purpose of a soundbar, to replace the TV audio with something of higher quality.
