WEBVTT - Roku Focuses on Free and Easy Streaming 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.680 Roku has some new players, plus new wireless speakers that 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:08.760 connect to their TV. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.280 What's going on, I'm rich tomorrow. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.399 This is Rich on Tech with me as Lloyd Clark, 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:15.800 director of product management here at Roku. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:17.959 Thanks so much for joining me. Thank you for having me. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.520 So let's talk about streaming in general. I feel like 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.320 every single day I hear the term streaming or cord cutting. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:25.079 And you guys were doing this a long time ago. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:26.479 By the way, we have been doing this for a 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.600 few years. We were one of the pioneers, and we 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:30.640 make it easy to stream to your television and if 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.240 you haven't streamed yet, you will. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.440 And so streaming has obviously gotten a lot easier because 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.839 people are aware of it. Internet has gotten faster, a 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.440 lot of companies have come on board with their apps. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.479 So do you find that people are still learning about this? 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:46.760 Oh? Absolutely, there's people who have not yet streamed of 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.280 their television, which is why we offer a selection of products. 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.839 We have a product that is available that has a 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.600 full Roku operating system on it, but sales for only 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.600 twenty nine to ninety nine and it's a great way 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:57.800 to get started into streaming. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.480 And what makes Roku different in your mind versus these 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.759 other fireTV, Apple TV Chrome casts out there. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.280 Oh, there's a number of things, which first and foremost, 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.720 it's an entire company that wakes up every morning thinking 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.959 about streaming. We built a lot of our products on 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.959 three core ideas. One is, let's get a bunch of 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.960 content and a lot of good content available. Let's make 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:20.959 it affordable for everyone, so which is why we have 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.720 prices as low as twenty nine dollars. And let's make 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.119 it easy to get to the show that you want 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:25.440 to get to. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:27.440 So with that in mind, one of the things I've 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.360 always thought of when it comes to Roku's a you're 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.000 kind of like Switzerland. You pretty much have like every 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.880 streaming app represented for the most part. And for the 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:38.959 second thing is I always think of the universal search 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:40.640 that you guys were doing long before a lot of 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.600 other folks. So tell me about that universal search and 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:44.880 what's kind of new with that with. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.960 The free absolutely search was additor a platform a number 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.080 of years ago with the idea that we want to 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:51.640 help someone to get to the show that they want 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.240 to get to. It's now extended to hundreds of channels. 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.520 You can search across many many of the channels on 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.720 our platform, and we just recently added the ability to 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.080 for free. So if you want to watch something, let's 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.040 say a comedy movie, you can say search for free 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.640 comedy movie movies. It'll come back with search results and 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.720 you can watch it on a number of different places. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.160 Now that's with voice search, right, So I can say 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.440 search for free comedies, right, or free kids movies whatever? 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.600 Can I do that with my type in search? 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:21.720 Like? 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.480 Can I type comedies and then free? 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.960 It's probably simpler with your voice. We do find search though. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.240 Using text, there's only two or three characters that you 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.960 need and you usually get to the piece of entertainment 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.040 that you want to So I know that just today, 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.560 I was looking for Samuel Jackson. So if I type 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.480 in SA and by the time I get to m 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.040 Samuel's at the top of my list, and I saw 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.520 he had eighty seven movies available on Roku. It's fantastic. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.560 And also you're organizing things when you search by kind 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.079 of like popularity too, Like you're kind of using some 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.200 secret sauce in the background, right. 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.080 Well, there's no secret. It's bipopularity based on what people 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.600 are searching for, and then where it plays back is 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.359 entirely based on price. So let's say you want to 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.359 watch a movie, that movie might be available on three, four, five, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.920 six different channels, and we'll list them in order and 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:06.600 based on price. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.720 Okay, very cool, and tell me about the you have 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.959 Featured Free and you've got the Roku Channel. 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:13.560 What's the difference between those two. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.680 Roku Channel was added to Roku about a year ago, 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:18.880 and it's a channel on your home screen and it 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.959 gives you quick access to free content, whether it's movies 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.840 or TV shows. It's a great place to find something 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.040 to watch at night. It is now so popular it's 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.000 about the top five I think on our platform for 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.760 who's using that. Another one that you just mentioned, Featured Free, 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:36.840 was just added about a month ago, and this is 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.440 straight from your home menu on Roku. You can slide 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.240 into that and what you get there is free content 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.200 from networks. These are the crown jewels of what's available 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.400 playing today in season available on Roku. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.560 So a lot of times I've noticed with like let's 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.680 say I have like an ABC app, Right, some of 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.080 that stuff on that app is paywall? 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.680 Do you have to have a subscription to ABC or whatever? 0:03:58.000 --> 0:03:59.440 And some of it is free? 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.320 Yeah, So what a lot of people don't realize is 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.000 that exactly what you said, Dan, that some of it 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:04.960 is absolutely free, and that's why we work with these 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.920 companies to bring it forward so that consumers can get 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:09.560 to it right away. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.320 And again, just to be clear, I mean this is 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.400 ads supported in many cases, so you might be seeing 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.080 ads while you're watching a lot of this stuff. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.080 Well, absolutely, and what we find is that consumers don't 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:21.360 mind the ad as long as. 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:22.920 They don't have to pay for it, so free is 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:23.920 pretty important. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.080 Free is a big driver of what Roku does. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.440 Okay, let's talk about some of the other things that 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:29.360 you showed me today. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:34.600 Spotify is coming back to Roku, and tell me about that. 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:36.919 Yeah, we have a number of different ways to listen 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.159 to music on Roku. Amazon Music was added a few 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.760 months ago. Pandora Premium is coming to Roku. That is exciting, 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.440 and we're also excited to welcome back Spotify. They were 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.040 off the platform a few months working on the user interface, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:51.719 but they're back on now. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:57.080 Okay, and now let's talk about the new speakers, because 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.720 you've got these wireless speakers, which makes getting a good 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.520 sound off your Roku TV nice and easily. Now I 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.080 say Roku TV because I don't want to get people 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:06.799 so excited that they think if they have a Roku 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.560 they can just get like this surround, crazy awesome sound 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:10.119 from you guys. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:11.000 So they do. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.720 Work with your TVs, your TCL branded Roku TV, or 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:15.560 any Roku it's. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.400 Any Roku TV that's been sold from one of our 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.200 manufactured partners works with these new set of speakers. And 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.960 I'm glad you pointed out it is a Roku TV speaker, 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.160 not for the players, and it's because we want to 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.400 give a good sound experience for everything that you're playing 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.520 on the television, whether you've connected something else, whether you're 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:34.159 watching maybe something on the tuner, everything that plays in 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:35.760 that television will come through these speakers. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.040 So that's why you can't just necessarily do it on 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.279 the Roku, although maybe if people are accepting of that, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:41.400 we might in the future. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.240 If you get a lot of people send comments to you, 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:44.040 we'll take. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:45.960 A let let them know it Roku that you want 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.800 these speakers for every Roku box, not just the TVs. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.200 But they do sound great. You played some demos for me, 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.919 and there's so many games we play with the sound 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.720 on our TV. You got to raise the volume. You 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:57.800 gott to lower the volume. Sometimes you're talking, you can't 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.320 hear it. You put it really loud, and then you 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.960 have an action. It's too crazy. So this kind of 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.560 you have little tools that will help you level them do. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.680 And it's exactly that was my life before these speakers, 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.679 So always riding that volume button. So if I'm watching 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.200 at night and I don't want to wake up the kids, 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:13.600 I have to turn down the volume, and then i 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.240 can't hear the dialogue and I've got to turn up 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.680 the volume. Or even switching between pieces of entertainment like 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.120 a commercial comes on. Usually those are mastered at a 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.480 higher volume level. So you're constantly riding that volume button. Well, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.160 with our speakers connected to the ROCUD television, there's a 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.520 lot of horsepower that we have in there between the 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.960 two different products, and because we run the software together 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.960 on both of them, we can do things like volume leveling, 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.600 which smooths out the volume between your content. We can 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.280 also do things like night mode, which brings down those 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.479 explosions and enhances the dialogue. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.000 And there's a separate setting. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.760 Specifically for speech clarity. This is actually the setting for 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.080 me because I have a hard time understanding a lot 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.280 of what the actors are saying. And when I turn 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.719 that on, it really focuses on the frequencies, specifically for dialogue, 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.520 enhances the dialogue so I can understand what they're saying. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.680 Important because I know you're saying this for you. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.840 But that happens in almost every movie where if you're 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.719 watching in a movie theater, sure you hear everything because 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.440 it's the loudest possible sound in the world. But if 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.160 you're at home, you're a normal person that's not blasting 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.600 your TV in front of everyone, So it is tough 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.800 to hear these actors sometimes, and I'm glad you guys 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.760 did that feature now. Also with these, by the way, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.280 the speakers connect your TV just by plugging them in, 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.520 So it's a two pack for what two hundred. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.480 Dollars or two hundred dollars You get to see the 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.960 two speakers. Also included as a new remote for your television. 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.160 And then there's a brand new remote that we've included 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.520 called the Roku Touch. And this remote is really meant 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.680 to be used away from your television somewhere, so maybe 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.240 it's in your kitchen or your desk, maybe the entryway, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.640 and it gives you quick control. Probably use mostly for music, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.280 if you want to start a podcast or if you 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.040 want to start a piece of music. It's a great 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:50.240 way to control from a distance. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.960 So it looks like a hockey puck kind of thing. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.480 It's got your basic controls on it for you know, 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:59.440 playing things. And the main thing about this is any 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.800 voice come that you can do on your TV. 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.119 Or is this you separate voice command. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.560 It's the same operating system here, and so when you 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.760 press that mic button, it gives you the same control 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.200 that you would have from when you're sitting on your couch, 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.440 but you can use it from anywhere that you can 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:13.520 hear your speakers from. 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.720 You've got a mic button, you've got volume up and down, 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.760 you've got play pause, forward back, and then you've got 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.040 these two preset buttons. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.600 Oh they're great and we use them a lot as 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.760 we've been testing out their product at home. It's like 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.440 a radio preset button. You press and hold it, it 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.920 will save the last command that you gave to the television. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:34.280 For example, let's say I want to play jazz on Pandora, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.520 Press and hold that number one and it saves it 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.080 for later use when I come back later on the day, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:40.840 I want to get access to that, I just press 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:42.920 that button and I get to my music. 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:43.680 Interesting. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.480 So the way I could describe this as kind of 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.240 like it's almost like Roku's answer to a Google Mini 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.080 or a almost like. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.280 A smart speaker, but just for your Roku. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.120 So it has some functionality that's built in, but it 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.840 sits somewhere outside of your TV. And speaking of Google, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.240 you guys are also doing some integration with them now too. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.880 We are. We're excited to open up the platform for 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.439 compatibility to those devices that have Google Assistant built in. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.720 So if you've got a Google Home or a Google 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.920 Mini or another Google product that has Google Assistant in it, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.199 you can control your rokud player or your Roku Television 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.040 through the voice on that product. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:20.880 And so what will I be able to do with 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:21.640 that integration. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.760 Everything you can do with the Roku today, the same 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.000 examples that we just gave with the Roku Touch, except 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.280 to be hands free through the Google Assistant. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.160 Okay, so sort of the same things that you would 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.199 command for the TV or the Roku Player, but using 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.199 the Google kind of interface and the hot word too. 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.000 And what you said before you know, Roku really is 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.120 a switcherland of streaming. So we open up our platform 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.040 to multiple different kinds of content, and now open up 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.160 a platform to multiple different kinds of devices. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.840 Okay, and tell me about the new devices you've got, 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.960 So to lower priced four K these are the kind 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:57.080 of your least expensive four K yet it is. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.559 So with the launch of the new Roku Premier and 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.480 the Recup Premiere Plus. These are the lowest price four 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.120 K players that we've launched ever to date. And it's 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.199 really building on the trend of four K in the home. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.839 There's a lot of four K TVs being sold, a 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:11.720 lot of them. Of course they're going to be Roku TVs, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.800 but some of them aren't. This is why our streaming 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.120 players business exists. That's why it still keeps on growing. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.120 And these two new products starting at thirty nine to 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.040 ninety nine for the Rokue Premiere and then forty nine 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.800 ninety nine for the Premier Plus, are a great add 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.280 to any television. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.520 Okay, and let's just go through the differences. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.520 So the Premiere you get basically your standard kind of 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:34.560 four K streaming player. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.240 Yep, what is the plus add on top of that? 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.600 The Plus is really a difference from the remote, so 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.640 both the players are exactly the same. They'll work with 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.040 regular high def televisions or work with four K televisions, 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.840 whatever television you have. The difference on the remote is 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.240 the Premier Plus offers the ability to use voice, so 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.160 it's good a voice button on there. It also will 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.760 control your TVs power and volumes no matter what TV 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.640 you have got it connected to. Will be able to 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.160 get rid of want to be remotes as you're watching Rocan, so. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.480 You have a volume on the remote. We do actually 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:06.000 and power. 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.880 To me, that's worth the ten dollars, but it's an 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.679 exclusive to Walmart, right right. So my advice, if you're 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.240 gonna get one of these two, you gotta go with 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.680 the one that's ten dollars more. Find a Walmart because 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.080 just having that one less remote in your house is 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.400 so much easier. And the voice command too, I mean, 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.920 now everything's done with voice. So I like the fact 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.599 that you're offering them to and the thirty nine and 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.240 nine is a nice price point, but go with the 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.160 extra ten dollars and get the one with all the 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:31.839 features that you. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:32.600 Can for that price. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.280 And you also mentioned something I thought was interesting about 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.520 the kind of you guys live in this world of 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.360 every day you wake up at Roku trying to make 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.960 streaming TV better and people always ask me, you know, 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.839 should I get a smart TV? I always say no, 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.520 with the exception of something like a Roku Smart TV, 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:52.320 because the software in there is updated and it's made nice. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:57.040 Right other manufacturers you're getting kind of random stuff. So anyway, 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.720 my point is to you guys listening, is I always 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.199 say get a box and add it to your TV, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.720 or go with a TV that has smart software that 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.080 is from a company like Roku. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.560 It's a problem that's existed with so called smart TVs 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.839 up until now that they create a wireless updateable product, 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.760 but they don't update it. And this is something that 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.160 Roku's done from the very very beginning. Everyone of our 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.440 products gets updates on a consistent basis, including our televisions. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.520 They run the same operating system as our players, and 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.120 when we roll out a feature, we roll it out 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.560 every the recup TV while the speakers work with every 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.760 one of our televisions. This is something that we think 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.400 is very important and glad you're pointing out. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:33.880 Okay, good, so you're on board. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.240 With me, but I agree because it's like your company 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.480 that your entire goal is to make streaming better every day, 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.880 which means the apps, all the apps I'm looking at 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.400 the screen, the Netflix, the Pandora, the Ihearts, the Hulus, 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:45.600 they're updating those. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:46.600 Whereas you buy. 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.800 Smart TV from one of these manufacturers that could be 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.160 a big name. Yes there's a Netflix app on there, 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.559 but you might not get it updated as often as 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.640 you'd like. And I'm a tech person. I want my stuff. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.040 I love app updates as like one of my favorite 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.280 things on my phone, my TV. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:12:59.760 Anything. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.280 Love app updates because that means I'm getting new features 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.880 and things are getting better. So is there anything I 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.000 missed that you that I failed to mention to you? 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.520 You know, I'm glad you're pointing out. The agnostic view 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.040 of Roku is that we just want you to watch 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.479 a little bit more television. We don't really play favorites 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.520 of where you watch it, so that's why we order 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.559 things in price and we play well with others. We 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.920 just want you to watch a stream a little bit more. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.240 And one more future I forgot to mention I do 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.920 like is the private listening, which means you can plug 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.319 some headphones into your remote control. And that's a big 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.960 deal because when you have your first kid, you realize 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.400 just how important it is to watch TV in silence 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:38.520 because you don't want to wake them up. 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.200 It's fantastic. So on the Roku Ultra, we are including 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.480 now some premium headphones from JBL. It's a great value. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.720 They're valued at thirty nine dollars. We're putting that together 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.320 with the Roco Ultra at its consistent price of ninety 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.640 nine dollars. But for those people who don't have that 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.520 remote with the headphone jack, this is fantastic. Through our 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.000 mobile app, you can do private listening through the mobile 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:00.400 app on any one of our players. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:01.280 Oh wow, that's huge. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.680 You just plug a pair of headphones into your phone, 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:05.160 listen through the app. 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:06.800 And if both you and your wife want to listen 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.400 at the same time, you can both open up the 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.040 same app and both listen at the same time. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.560 Wow, that's great. Okay, and give me some times on 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.360 these things. So when of the speakers come out. Speakers 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.559 are available for pre order now. They're gonna start shipping 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:19.120 in November. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:19.440 Okay. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.080 The players will start taking pre orders at the end 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.520 of September. They're gonna get to stores in. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.200 October, okay, and Spotify. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.680 Spotify is coming. I think it's somewhere in October. It 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.000 takes a while to roll out to all the different platforms. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.080 Okay, so Spotify October. All right. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.080 Thank you so much, Lloyd Clark, director of product management 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.000 here at Roku, thanks so. 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:39.680 Much for joining me. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.040 And if you like the podcast, do me a favor 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.440 and take a screenshot of you listening and share it 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:45.720 with your friends on social media. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:46.880 I'm Rich jamiro You can. 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.320 Find links to everything I talk about here in the 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.840 show notes or on my website, rich on tech dot tv. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:53.400 I'll talk to you real soon.