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Roku Launches OS 11.5 and New Software Features, Making Streaming More Seamless Than Ever
Updates to the Roku OS span Audio, Voice, and Content Discovery, with features like Continue Watching, a platform-wide Save List, The Buzz, and more SAN
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nUpdates to the Roku OS span Audio, Voice, and Content Discovery, with features like Continue Watching, a platform-wide Save List, The Buzz, and more\n\n SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nToday, Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU) announced the latest enhancements coming to Roku’s operating system, giving users a more convenient and efficient experience for discovering, accessing, and streaming entertainment. In the coming months, the company will introduce an all-new content discovery experience, The Buzz, to the Roku Home Screen Menu as well as two significant updates to its What to Watch feature, Continue Watching and an expanded platform-wide Save List. Roku is also making updates to Roku Voice, expanding Bluetooth Private Listening, easing navigation within the Live TV Channel Guide with the addition of categories, and offering more content discovery tools, among many other features.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220912005247/en/Roku Launches OS 11.5 and New Software Features, Making Streaming More Seamless Than Ever (Photo: Business Wire)\nAdditionally, Roku announced two new products that offer a seamless streaming and audio experience at an even more accessible price: an all-new Roku Wireless Bass and the 2022 Roku Express.\n\n“We are in the golden age of streaming with more great shows and movies releasing than ever before, which at times we know can be overwhelming,” said Preston Smalley, Vice President of Consumer Product. “By personalizing the way our customers connect with the content they love and offering more ways to discover and access new content to stream or save for later, our users have more tools than ever to watch what they want to with ease.”\n\nNew features coming to Roku devices in the following months include:\n\nRoku Home Screen Menu\n\n\nThe Buzz: The newest addition to the Roku Home Screen Menu, The Buzz brings a new discovery experience to the biggest screen in the house. Users can quickly browse a frequently updated collection of posts featuring entertainment-centric, short-form content from popular streaming services and entertainment brands, such as AMC+, Apple TV+, BET+, Crackle, Hallmark Movies Now, IGN, Plex, Popcornflix, SHOWTIME®, Starz, The CW, Tubi, Vevo, and Wondrium, with more to come. Posts within The Buzz may in...