Insignia Roku Smart Tv Remote App

This Roku turned my Plasma TV into a smart TV. Now I even have more online and app choices than some of my smart TVs. It’s absolutely worth it.

Build in Roku would freeze on You Tube TV app. I figured this as another method to keep the smart TV and load the You Tube TV app

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] What a great little remote. Got it for my AndroidTV Hisense TV. At first I was concerned because I realized that it was primarily built for Roku and a few other smart TV systems with no AndroidTV listed, but went ahead with the setup anyway and it works great! Followed the steps for setting up a Roku Hisense TV and it worked on first try. Able to control the smart features and the TV itself (power, volume). There are 2 buttons that didn't program - I guess they are designed specifically for Roku, but the nice thing is that this remote will allow you to learn from your old remote and map any button to do anything the previous remote did. Haven't tried that yet, but will probably remap the 2 buttons in the near future to do something useful. Great little remote all around and beats the big remote that came with the TV with about 100 buttons on it.

I bought four of these for four out of five tvs in our home. They work great. Actually got one of my soundbars to work where the remote from the actual same brand TV as the speaker. Three of the TVs are Vizios while the fourth is a Magnavox. All four TVs now only need the Roku remote. I ended up ordering a fifth Roku for the Vizio smart TV. The Roku works much better for accessing apps than the smart TV.

A friend had a Roku TV and I really liked the UI and ease of use along with the smart remote. I recently got a new TV and didn't like the UI and it wasn't as streamlined as Roku's so I picked up the Ultra and haven't looked back.

Will never buy another smart TV, only Roku with a non-smart TV.

I bought this little guy for watch TV trough my Roku remote app and works very well, where I live it's too noisy.

I have been using Roku devices for many years. In the past, there was always a few glitches here and there that would show up while using them. This started showing major improvement with the Roku 3 that I purchased and then last with the model 3600 streaming stick. Now the hardware is not only fast in the menus but reliable and stable as well. Picture quality is as good as any streaming device I have owned and I have used many. The new remote control with voice, TV power and volume controls are a great upgrade from the 3600 model streaming stick. I can now watch TV with one remote control and that is very handy. If I could change anything it would be the integration of a TV guide type of application, such as the TV app on the Apple TV. There is a version of this on the remote app, but it is not as detailed as the version I have used on Apple TV. It would be nice to have this type of thing visible on the device and not just on the app. I suspect Roku will create something like this in the future. They are a responsive company that cares about the customer experience. What makes this a 5-star device though is the quality matched with the price. The closest competitor is a Fire TV, but they push you more toward the Amazon content while Roku is content agnostic with all but iTunes available to access. The menus are prettier on Fire TV, but the simplicity of access better on the Roku. I would argue that the quality and stability of the software is better as well. Overall this is a great device that gives you 4K without breaking your budget to do so. The fact that it does all of this with a simplistic and reliable platform makes it even better.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I bought this to replace a 2 year old Onn brand TV that quit working. I'm used to Roku TVs so I had to get used to this OS. The screen, sound and everything about the TV is excellent. Is has 3 HDMI ports and supports Arc. It detected my soundbar without issue. I actually like the remote better than a roku remote. My only complaint is that it doesn't support some of the apps available on Roku. Notably, the ESPN app and the Peloton app. For those, I connected a chromecast to one of the HDMI ports and I access them through there.

My smart TV would not pickup several steamer. Roku allowed me to get them.