Roku Pro Series: What Real Users Actually Think

Get an Apple TV box and connect it to whatever price TV you want. You won't regret it.

Don't buy a smart TV, buy something you can connect to the TV. Don't buy a TV for features that could go out of date, buy it for the picture quality and connect something to it for the smart services.

I always recommend buying a Roku device separate from the TV, like the Roku Ultra. I never activate or use the built in smart features of the TV itself. This approach has resulted in many, many years of trouble free TV watching.

I'd recommend a higher quality, longer lasting TV like Samsung, LG, or Sony with an inexpensive Roku 4K stick.

You can make any TV a Roku TV by adding a Roku box.

Buy a Samsung and a Roku stick. Way better.

The Pro Series is a solid device in its price range for a mini-LED screen with ALL the Dolby Technologies included. I own AppleTVs, RokuTVs, and Firesticks in my environment (cord-cutter since 2011), and though AppleTV box is the smoothest external device, the Roku branded RokuTV Pro's are a good bang-for-buck all-in-one value.

None. Do not connect your TV to the internet. Buy a separate device for streaming.

I second buying a Roku device separate from the TV. If something better than Roku comes along, it's less than $100 to change your OS and not be dependent on Roku.

Don't buy a TV on the OS it uses. Most likely support will drop before you replace the TV. Plus, if you use the same type of streaming device on all your TVs, you have the same experience, no matter the brand.

We have 2 Roku TVs, one was the top model available 2 years ago, the other was a mid range. After about 1 year of use both of them slowed down too much to be usable. Slow to respond, constant freezing during playback, and no amount of wiping clean and reinstalling helped, so I had to buy other Roku devices to connect to my Roku TVs. If I ever buy another Roku device again, it will not be a TV.

I have a Pro Series 65" and I love it. Picture is great, sound is pretty impressive for being TV speakers. Only gripe is the weight, QLED is definitely heavier. $500 is pretty good IMO.

I couldn't believe how heavy it was, I thought I stepped back in time. Thinking I'll go OLED next time.

The 2024 65" Roku Pro TV is $999. The 2024 TCL QM7 which is a better TV is $679. The TCL is running Google TV but even with the cost of Roku Ultra it's cheaper and still a better TV. The 65" TCL QM851G is $899 and is a significantly better TV — way more dimming zones, brighter, better video processing and more motion handling settings.

I have a 3 year old 55 inch QLED TCL Roku TV and I'm very happy with it. For $600 in 2025 you can move up to a larger 65" or 75" QLED. Or save some money and use it when it inevitably dies down the road.

The real reason I wouldn't get the Roku is because their picture processing is dreadful. They legit can't upscale content well to 4K, making washing out fine detail and making the picture overall hard to make out. It also has color banding issues, which to me was always a turn off with a TV.

Not a pro since it doesn't have an ATSC 3.0 tuner.

Roku is solid. Only issue I've had with mine is the audio started defaulting to output through the TV instead of my soundbar and I had to factory reset mine to get it back to normal. Aside from that, honestly pretty solid.

I like the 120Hz refresh rate. That alone makes it worth it to me.

I've been eyeing the Pro series for a while and the 2025 version improved with better brightness levels. That or the Hisense U7 series.

I would not buy a TV to use built in Roku. Odds are the built-in hardware is trash and barely able to run Roku as is. In a couple years with the inevitable bloat, it will run for shit. You are much better off keeping your Roku stick and buying whatever TV meets your budget besides that.

I was close to buying one recently during a prime day sale; ended up with the TCL QM6K - better features for a similar price point (~$500). Not a Roku (Google TV), but with a 3rd party app launcher I hardly notice the difference.

I have a Pro 55". I liked it at $500 and walked into a local Best Buy and found an open box in 'like new' condition for $325. I love it!

Don't do it. I bought one 2 mos ago & am not happy with it. Once it just shut off & wouldn't turn on for a day, despite rebooting, etc… Roku brand speakers wouldn't connect - returned. Lastly top of the TV suddenly went dark one day. I guess the picture is good, I dunno. The Roku system isn't bad, but I would buy a diff brand of TV.

I bought one just after Christmas and I love it! I'm no TV expert, and have no idea what most of the settings mean but I know what a good picture looks like. At first, while in the post-New TV glow, everything looked great, especially 4K discs.

I bought a 75-inch Roku Pro TV from Amazon back in November. At first, it was perfect. But recently, almost every day, it starts flipping through the input menu on its own and even power cycles randomly. Roku support said it's a 'known issue' affecting a lot of TVs and that I should wait for a software update… but they couldn't give me any timeline.

Mine was doing this. It would turn itself off. Never did figure out what was wrong. Just stopped watching TV.

Roku support reached out and offered to replace the TV. But I already returned and replaced it with a Sony Bravia. The Roku had very good picture quality, sound, and also had a seamless UX. I actually like the UX from the Roku more but the quality is quite different between this and the Sony. I would try another Roku TV again simply because I liked the UX, had pretty decent picture quality and the speaker may have been a fluke.

The Roku Pro (2025 Model) is actually an extremely well built TV. Super bright mini LED panel, very good speakers, and a slim mount design that looks like a frame TV on the wall.

For me Roku TVs are a homerun. I have an OTA antenna and all my channels integrate into the live channel guide easily. I have a 5.1.2 Dolby Atmos Roku TV ready soundbar that pumps out great sound. I use a Roku pro 2 voice remote. So I have a streamlined, easy to use system all in the Roku ecosystem. No multiple remotes and no switching back and forth.

I have 4 Roku TCL TVs in my house and hate the Roku part of them. The ads drove me nuts that I could not turn them off. I made a VLAN for internet only no local access. Then use an Apple TV for each TV to not have to use Roku.

Yeah, I got it during the Amazon flash sale with free mount and 25% cash back on the prime visa card. It ended up being $465 total after cash back, so I couldn't pass it up. I haven't been disappointed.

I don't know if it's actually improved but I can tell you I got this deal and am very happy with the picture quality. I mainly use streaming apps and watch sports. Football on antenna which is 720p has looked good, and I haven't noticed any issues with picture processing on shows or movies.

The TV is at its best when watching high-quality 4K content from physical sources, as its image processing capabilities are disappointing when dealing with low-quality or low-bitrate content. Movies from streaming platforms have noticeable compression artifacts in dark scenes.

When I bought my 65" 8 months ago I found that the Roku brand TV had the best bang for the buck. I ended up getting their Plus Series and have been very happy with it. In fact I replaced another TV last week with a Roku TV - this time the Select Series because it was cheap.

Roku Pro Series for Roku TVs. Roku Ultra for adding a standalone box to existing TV.

I wouldn't let the streaming device built in influence what TV I buy. Buy the TV for build quality, picture quality, etc. If you don't like the built-in streaming, you can buy a device to plug into it.

Buy a TV that has the picture quality and audio performance you want and then get some kind of streaming device. Smart TVs tend to get behind, software wise, in just a few years where streaming devices get updated and supported much longer.

With a budget over $1k, don't buy a Roku TV. Buy a proper name brand like Samsung or LG then just buy a Roku Ultra to plug into one of the HDMI ports.

I've had 2 Roku TCL TVs for over 5 years and they are still working well with no issues. I personally think they are very easy to navigate through.

I've had a 65" TCL with Roku built in for 6-7 years, and it has worked well this whole time. I've always read people saying not to get the built in Roku OS for smart TVs, but it has just worked fine. I've been so happy that I want to upgrade to something crazy like a 100" Roku TV.