

Like the Roku Streaming Stick+ and Roku Ultra, the Premiere line supports HDR10 in apps such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, and Vudu. The situation with HDR is more complicated. Roku even offers a helpful 4K Spotlight app for tracking down supported content and services. If you have a 4K television, the Roku Premiere and Premiere+ can stream video in the higher-resolution format from services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Vudu, FandangoNow, CuriosityStream, and Plex. Unfortunately, your only options for a speedier experience are the much pricier Apple TV 4K and Nvidia Shield TV, which both cost $180. There’s still no way to quickly jump between recent apps, and with certain live TV streaming services, such as Hulu and PlayStation Vue, scrolling through the guide can take a while as you wait for listings to load. In some ways, though, the current hardware is showing its age. Roku’s software has always run efficiently even on cheap devices, and that’s still the case here. Internally, all of Roku’s current products now use the same quad-core processor, and the Premiere models’ performance is virtually indistinguishable from the pricier Streaming Stick+. HDMI and Micro-USB (for power) are all you get with the Roku Premiere line.
