After teaming up with Hisense and TCL to add its software to the UK TV mart , Roku has partner with German - establish brand Metz to offer even more affordable smart telecasting .
It ’s not as if the marketplace is lacking for affordablesmart TVs , but it is lacking for well - designed and easy to habituate interfaces . You only have to front at aspect of Android TV and Samsung ’s revamp of its Tizen O to recognize that trying to simplify interfaces can result in making them slenderly more complicated .
And that ’s something Roku has been rather good at with its UK offering , streamlining the cognitive operation to make it easier to part watching what you want to see .
And it ’s also interesting to see a comparatively novel brand enter the UK market , which is competitive to say the least . Metz actually has a long chronicle of operation , stretch out back to 1938 when Paul Metz ground the troupe , but this marks the first time the party has set up a TV in the UK .
The range is made up of 4 one thousand and Full HD TVs , the latter startle at 32 - inches and the former topping out at 65 - inches , as the Roku Metz TVs look to offer a blind size sodding for any view experience . In that sense , Metz is covering pretty much all option you could be interested in , with the Metz MRD6000 4 K range consist of 43- , 50- , 55- and 65 - inch size , while the Full HD MTD6000 displays are available in 32- and 40 - inch sizing , making them more suited for bedchamber function or little rooms .
So they ’re accessible in condition of user interface , and arguably accessible in price of their screen sizing but the key aspect of the Metz Metz partnership is the same matter that powers the Hisense Roku and TCL Roku team - ups , and that ’s the range of feature film the Roku OS offers .
Each size has the same array of features with bread and butter for Apple AirPlay 2 , Dolby Audio / DTS auditory sensation , voice assistants , Freeview Play and the spacious selection of streaming apps and spare content uncommitted on the Roku platform . Compare that to the like of Samsung , Panasonic , Sony and LG , and it ’s hard not to say you ’re not getting a honest deal .
Even better is the price , which is belligerent for a fresh company figure the grocery . The 65 - inch model is just £ 449 at launching , while the 32 - column inch Full HD set is a snip at £ 159 . With a cost of livelihood crisis looming and a football World Cup on the sensible horizon , Metz could snatch up a lot of concerned viewers looking to redeem themselves money on a new readiness .
The want of Dolby Vision is , for me , the one noted omission for the 4 K series . HavingDolby Vision HDRfor cheaper set arguably make more good sense than it does for more expensive set that can already do a believable HDR operation without . It ’d help in terms of colours and brightness , eking that bit more carrying into action from the venire .
But it ’s toilsome to discord with the proposition Metz Roku is position forward with this TV series . I ’d emphatically be interested in taking a closer look when the TVs launch towards the remainder of October as to whether it can back up its aggressive pricing with a punchy performance .
