The Roku Ultra Streaming Player is currently the best on the market

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My family members are happy with the 2018 model Roku Ultra, the video and audio quality is exactly the same as their old out of production 2016 Roku Ultra model that had a higher list price. Of course streaming in 2019 does not compare to the high bit rate of HEVC 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs and also no streaming provider has every so far offered lossless audio quality and only lossy surround sound.


Even though the 2018 Roku Ultra has the same picture quality, sound quality, and offers the same overall quality as the more expensive out of production 2016 model, the only advantage of the 2016 model is the optical audio output for people that have older A/V receivers without the HDMI feature. HDMI was designed back in December of 2002, and in late 2003 HDMI products were being manufactured and started appearing on consumer electronics equipment in 2004. By the year 2008 most A/V receivers being made had HDMI built in. Therefore, unless one owns an A/V receiver that is older than 11 years old, they no longer need optical audio output that existed on the 2016 model Roku Ultra. The oldest A/V receivers that my family members own is 11 years old, therefore I have never needed to use that optical audio output on the original 2016 Roku Ultra, thanks to the better HDMI interface that handles both video and audio.


Also the fast SanDisk 64GB micro SDXC card works great to provide more storage for the several thousands of streaming channels.