Roku has announced the availability of its
new Roku Wireless Speakers exclusively designed for the Roku TV entertainment
system, and engineered to provide “powerful, premium audio”, says Roku. The
Roku TV Wireless Speaker System will be priced at US$ 200 and will start shipping
to customers in late October 2018.
Although Roku is now accepting preorders at a
limited time special edition price of $150 until July 23rd, 2018. After which
the price will increase to $180 until October 15th 2018, and then again on
October 16th 2018 to $200. The Roku Wireless Speakers support Bluetooth music
streaming from mobile devices and offer Automatic Volume Levelling to lower the
volume on loud scenes and boost the volume on quieter ones and Dialog
Enhancement to improve the intelligibility of speech. Roku CEO Anthony Wood
explains more about the Roku Wireless Speakers exclusively design for the Roku
TV.
Setup of the Roku Wireless Speakers has been
designed to be simple and requires pairing the speakers to your Roku TV via
Roku Connect. Once paired, users can listen to audio from any streaming channel
on the Roku platform, live TV from an antenna, or other devices such as a cable
set-top box through the Roku TV Wireless Speakers.