What is Android TV and how does it work?
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One of the things that jumped off the page from
Roku’s (NASDAQ:ROKU) first-quarter earnings report was the platform business. Roku’s platform revenue growth accelerated to 101% and its platform gross margin expanded to 67%. While Roku’s starting to lap the impact of COVID-19 on its business, giving it easier comparable quarters, that top-line growth was better than even 2019.
| 28 April 2021
The Conviva State of Streaming report for the first quarter of 2021 has shown solid year-on-year streaming growth in North America but massive surges in international markets as streaming viewing time grew 36% annually during the three-month period.
Specifically, the intelligence cloud for streaming media’s study revealed North America, streaming’s largest market, as seeing 18% annual growth in streaming viewing, overshadowed by South America (240%), Africa (149%) and Europe (122%).
Another key trend revealed was that consumers were flocking to connected TV devices, smart TVs and gaming consoles, with big screens commanding as a 73% share of Q1 streaming viewing globally.
And while streaming viewing was growing globally, Conviva discovered there was significant variation in the way consumers in different regions stream on big screens. For example, in Africa, where big screens represent 56% of all viewing time, CanalPlus set-top-box was the preferr
Roku says the remote can register commands from up to 12 feet away, which held true for me, and it didn’t have trouble picking out the wake phrase while sound played through the TV. Once it hears “Hey Roku,” it lowers the streaming device volume to hear the rest of your command, and the remote had no issues understanding what I was saying even with complex words like
Mandalorian.
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Saying “Hey Roku” brings up a visual prompt on the TV, just like when you hold the remote’s microphone button.
Similar to Alexa on Fire TV, Siri on Apple TV, or Google Assistant on Google TV, Roku’s hands-free system feels magical when everything works properly. You can ask to play a movie or show, load the Roku Channel guide, turn the volume up or down, play or pause, and rewind or fast forward by a specific amount of time. Saying “Hey Roku, replay” is also useful, as it rewinds the current video by 10 seconds with closed captioning temporarily enabled.
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