Roku adds new features and personalisation
OCTOBER 6, 2023 12.42 EUROPE/LONDON BY JULIAN CLOVER

Roku has announced new additions to its featureset including updates to its Sports, Live TV, What to Watch, Music Playlists and Roku Photo Streams features.

“As the leaders in streaming TV, we’ve made it our priority to offer a platform that anticipates our user’s needs and adapts in real time,” said Preston Smalley, Vice President of Viewer Product at Roku. “With endless content to choose from and ways to watch, we will continue to innovate and release feature updates to our millions of users that better the viewing experience, making Roku the go-to destination for TV streaming.”

The new features will be introduced initially on Roku devices in the United States.

These include Favouriting, which allows users to track live and upcoming sporting events for their top teams in a single curated row; Highlights will allow users to watch clips from recent sporting events they may have missed or want to relive. Personalized Live TV featuring over 400 free live linear channels can now be personalised to allow viewers to change the order of the guide. Music Playlists now feature over 250 playlists from Roku and its partners; A Visual Search is now coming to the mobile app and Roku Photo Streams now supports Google Photos.

Roku OS 12.5 is rolling out to support Roku TV models and streaming players in the coming weeks.