The Roku 4 also gets noticeably hotter than any other device in the entertainment media consoles most of the time.
Quality and superb viewing come with a price so the Roku 4 came out as the most expensive in the lot when compared to its competitors and also the other roster of Roku streaming devices. However, its features and specifications far outweigh every streaming device in the market today so the difference in cost is practically well worth it.
The 4K standard for televisions these days is also known as Ultra HD, which means that the resolution is 3840 x 2160 or sometimes referred to as 2160p or 2160 pixels. That is double the 1080p for an HD TV set.
In short, 4K packs in four times as many pixels which allow for sharper details. While most cable and satellite providers are still hashing out their 4K plans, a number of online services including Netflix and Amazon have already started streaming videos in the higher-resolution format.
With the emergence of 4K streaming on the Amazon Fire TV and the Roku 4, it also came with new requirements. One of the most important of which is 4K TV and that it must have at least one HDMI input that supports HDCP 2.2 copy-protection standard.