Roku Pro Series 2025  TV Review

The Roku Pro Series TV has decent HDR brightness. It's bright enough for most highlights to stand out as they should in content mastered up to 1000 nits, so it provides an impactful HDR experience with most content. It's not as bright in entirely well-lit scenes, like an outdoor scene that takes place on a sunny day. However, there's not a massive drop in luminance with these types of scenes, so they're still bright enough to be impactful. 

Our results are with dynamic tone mapping disabled, since that's the most accurate setting. If you prefer a brighter image, below are the results with DTM enabled.

• Hallway Lights: 748 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 277 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 349 cd/m²

There's no visible difference in HDR brightness when using Game Mode, so you don't have to worry about trading in brightness for the best gaming performance.

Our results are with dynamic tone mapping disabled, since that's the most accurate setting. If you prefer a brighter image, below are the results with DTM enabled.

• Hallway Lights: 751 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 276 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 346 cd/m²

The TV boasts impressive SDR brightness, easily overcoming glare from indirect lighting in a bright room. 

The Roku Pro Series TV has good contrast. With local dimming on 'High,' it displays deep blacks, so dark scenes don't look washed out, and the image has solid depth. 

There's some minor haloing around some bright highlights, but the TV has good lighting zone precision overall, so you don't notice it during most scenes. However, there's a noticeable glow around subtitles. 

The Roku Pro Series TV has good lighting zone transitions overall. It does struggle a bit with fast-moving content, so there's some haloing and the leading edge of quick-moving objects is visibly dimmer.

There's no noticeable difference in dark scene performance when the TV is in Game Mode.

The TV's black uniformity is excellent. With local dimming disabled, there's some minor cloudiness across the screen. However, with local dimming on 'High,' blacks are perfectly uniform across the screen. 

The TV has decent SDR color volume. It has very good coverage of the DCI-P3 color space, but it does struggle a bit with lighter shades. It has only adequate coverage of the widest BT.2020 color space.

The TV has very good HDR color volume. Since it has good contrast, dark colors are displayed well. Furthermore, it displays a wide range of colors at fairly high luminance levels.

The Roku Pro Series TV has excellent color accuracy before calibration. The RGB balance is slightly off, and the gamma is between 2.2 and 2.4, resulting in an image that appears slightly too dark overall. Still, the color temperature is very close to 6,500K, and there are only minor inaccuracies in colors that are barely noticeable. 

The TV has outstanding SDR color accuracy after calibration. Any minor errors in white balance, gamma, and color temperature are gone. Overall color accuracy has also improved, and there's only very minor inaccuracies in dark blues that aren't noticeable. 

See our full calibration settings.

Unfortunately, the TV has sub-par HDR color accuracy before calibration. Blues are massively overrepresented in most shades of gray, which contributes to its overly cool color temperature. There are noticeable color mapping errors throughout the entire color range, so this TV doesn't stay true to the filmmaker's intent in HDR out of the box. 

The TV has decent HDR color accuracy after calibration. The white balance has improved, but the RGB balance is still off. The color temperature is closer to 6,500K, although it's still a bit too cool. There are still mapping errors throughout, most notably in warmer tones, but the overall color accuracy is good. 

The TV has poor PQ EOTF tracking. Near blacks are dimmer than intended, and it overbrightens the rest of the image. There's a sharp cutoff near its peak brightness, but the TV is bright enough to display most highlights in 600 and 1000 nit content, so no details are lost. However, the sharp cutoff means that very bright highlight details are lost in content mastered at 4000 nits.

The TV has decent low-quality content smoothing. It reduces macro-blocking from low-bitrate feeds a bit, but there's some loss of fine detail in the process.

The TV does an alright job at upscaling low-resolution content like DVDs or lower-resolution streams. Details are somewhat clear, but finer details are hard to make out.

The Roku Pro Series TV has very good HDR native gradient handling. There's some visible banding in darker grays and greens, but all other gradients have minimal banding or none at all. 

The TV has low input lag, which helps to ensure a responsive gaming experience. Unlike most TVs, the Roku Pro Series 2025 automatically switches to PC Mode when connected to a computer, and there's no easy way to switch out of that mode. However, switching to 4:2:0 in the NVIDIA control panel essentially takes you out of PC Mode, as it provides access to features such as motion interpolation and sharpness adjustment. 

The TV supports all common resolutions up to 4k @ 120Hz on two of its four HDMI inputs.

The TV supports FreeSync, G-SYNC, and HDMI Forum VRR, ensuring a nearly tear-free gaming experience from any VRR-enabled source. It works well across its entire refresh rate range and supports sources with Low Framerate Compensation (LFC), which ensures your games remain nearly tear-free even when your frame rate drops very low.

The TV has okay pixel transitions at its 120Hz maximum refresh rate. It's at its slowest when entering and exiting a dark state, which leads to some noticeable black smearing. Motion is a bit blurry overall, but it's not too bad for an LED model. 

The TV has okay pixel transitions at its 120Hz maximum refresh rate. It's at its slowest when entering and exiting a dark state, which leads to some noticeable black smearing. Motion is a bit blurry overall, but it's not too bad for an LED model. 

Like at 120Hz, the TV's pixel transitions are slowest when transitioning to and from dark states, leading to black smearing. Transitions are a bit slow overall, which leads to visible motion blur, especially in fast-paced games. 

The Roku Pro Series is fully compatible with everything the PS5 offers, like 1440p @ 120Hz and 4k @ 120Hz, as well as HDMI Forum VRR. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to worry about manually switching to Game Mode to get the lowest input lag.

The TV is fully compatible with everything the Xbox Series X|S offers, including 1440p @ 120Hz, 4k @ 120Hz, HDMI Forum VRR, FreeSync Premium Pro, and Dolby Vision gaming. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to worry about manually switching to Game Mode to get the lowest input lag.

There's some stutter that's most noticeable during scenes with slow panning shots.

Unfortunately, none of the Action Smoothing settings output close to 30 fps, which is the target we use to reduce stutter without adding noticeable soap opera effect. As the 'Low' setting outputs well above 30 fps, we tested this TV with Action Smoothing disabled, so these results are the same as the Stutter box.

The Roku Pro Series automatically removes 24p judder from any source, including those that output content in 60Hz. Unfortunately, it can't remove 25p judder from any external source, but playback from the native apps is fine.

There's some very minor micro judder when playing back 24p content from a 60p source, like a cable box or older streaming device.

The TV has an excellent response time when watching content. There's some black smearing when exiting dark scenes, but other than that you don't notice any severe motion blur when watching movies and shows.

Transitions are smooth and clean for the most part, but there are some noticeable color artifacts as colors change. It's not very noticeable with most real content, though.

The Roku Pro Series TV has a very fast flicker rate of 32,100Hz in all pictures mode and at all brightness settings. 

There's an optional backlight strobing feature, which is called 'LED Motion Clarity' on this TV, that you can enable to improve the appearance of motion. Unfortunately, it only flickers at 120Hz, and the image is blurry with some image duplication. 

To turn the 'LED Motion Clarity' setting on with 60Hz sources, all the motion interpolation settings need to be set to 'High.' However, you can use the setting independently from motion interpolation if the TV handshakes at 120Hz, but the setting doesn't work if you're using Game Mode. 

The Roku Pro Series TV has poor direct reflection handling. It barely reduces the intensity of direct light sources like a lamp placed opposite the screen, which is very distracting in darker scenes.

Black levels barely raise on this TV in a room with ambient lighting, so you still get deep blacks regardless of your lighting conditions.

The total reflected light of this TV is alright. Reflections are visible on this TV during dark scenes, and there's some distracting light banding.

The TV has great color saturation in a bright room. While there's some slight color degradation in well-lit contexts, it's not noticeable.

The TV has a mediocre viewing angle, so image quality is degraded if you're watching from the sides of the screen. Its biggest weaknesses are its raised black levels and gamma shifting, which causes the image to look washed out, so it's not suitable for a wide seating arrangement. 

The TV has unremarkable gray uniformity. The corners of the screen are noticeably dimmer than the rest, there's uneven patches of brightness, and there's visible dirty screen effect towards the center of the screen. On a near-black screen, there are brighter splotches and cloudiness across the screen. 

The Roku Pro Series 2025 uses a BGR (Blue-Green-Red) subpixel layout instead of the traditional RGB layout. This doesn't cause any issues for video or gaming content, but it can be a problem for PC monitor use, as it impacts the text clarity, although not everyone will notice this.

The TV uses quantum dots to achieve high color peaks with excellent separation between blues, greens, and reds. This gives it great color purity and helps it display a wide color gamut.

HDMI ports 1 and 2 support the full 48Gbps bandwidth of HDMI 2.1, while HDMI 3 and 4 are limited to HDMI 2.0 bandwidth. HDMI 4 is the eARC port on this TV. The TV only supports ATSC 1.0, so 4k over-the-air isn't possible. 

The TV passes through all Dolby Digital formats. It supports DTS 5.1 when using ARC or optical, but it doesn't support more advanced DTS audio formats commonly used on physical media.

The Roku Pro Series TV looks good. It has thin metal bezels around all four sides, which helps give it a premium look and feel. 

The Roku Pro Series features two feet that hold it securely in place, but they only lift it approximately 2.36 inches, which can block the bottom of the screen when encountering chunkier soundbars. 

Footprint of the 65-inch model: 44.7" x 14.3".

The back of the Roku Pro Series is made of sturdy plastic that doesn't feel cheap. You can purchase a slim wall mount specifically designed for this TV, but the inputs are located in a recessed cutout that's quite difficult to access when the TV is wall-mounted. Fortunately, it has velcro straps on the back to help with cable management. 

The Roku Pro Series TV has good build quality. It's mostly made from sturdy plastic, but the metal bezels are a nice touch that makes the TV feel more premium. 

The Roku Pro Series TV runs version 15 of the Roku TV smart OS. Unfortunately, the remote randomly stops working at times, and the TV needs to be restarted for it to function again. Also, if it's disconnected from Wi-Fi, the home screen is blank, and you can't access inputs. 

Like most TVs, the interface contains ads that can't be disabled. You also can't opt out of personalized ads, so the ads you see are always targeted at you based on your viewing history. 

The remote is backlit and is motion sensitive, making it easy to see buttons when you're in the dark. You can charge the remote via a USB-C port that's located on the bottom. 

There are two buttons on the right side of the TV. The power button can be used to turn the device on/off, but it can also be used to change inputs or access the home screen. The button with the plus sign activates its remote finding feature. 

The Roku Pro Series TV has an alright frequency response. The speakers don't get very loud, but the sound profile is well-balanced enough that dialogue is easy to understand at all volume levels. Like most TVs, there's very little bass. Unfortunately, the speakers cause an audible rattling during scenes with bass, and you can even hear the rattle at lower volume levels.