Roku Pro Series OLED  TV Review

The Roku Pro Series TV has mediocre peak brightness in HDR. It's not bright enough to bring out small details very well, so HDR content looks a bit dull and muted. Very bright scenes are far dimmer than they should be, as the TV can't maintain its limited peak brightness when more of the screen is bright at once.

The posted results are in the 'Dark HDR' picture mode, as it's the most accurate. Switching to the 'HDR Bright' picture mode allows it to deliver slightly higher peaks over short periods of time, but it can't maintain those brightness levels, and it's also significantly less accurate.

Switching to Game mode has no noticeable impact on peak brightness in HDR.

Unfortunately, the TV has poor peak brightness in SDR. It can handle only moderate amounts of glare during the day, so it's best suited for a dark or light-controlled room. Bright content like sports is considerably dimmer and hard to see clearly during the day.

The posted results are in the most accurate 'Movie' picture mode. It's a bit brighter in the 'Vivid' mode, but it still can't handle daytime glare and it's less accurate.

Like all OLEDs, the Roku Pro Series TV has a nearly infinite contrast ratio, giving it perfect contrast. Due to OLED's self-lit pixels, it displays bright highlights next to perfect inky blacks, making it very impressive in a dark room.

Since OLEDs don't use lighting zones and instead have individual pixels that can be lit up to their maximum brightness next to pixels that are turned off, there's no haloing when bright elements are surrounded by deep blacks.

Since OLEDs don't use lighting zones and instead have individual pixels that can be lit up to their maximum brightness next to pixels that are turned off, there's no haloing when bright elements are surrounded by deep blacks.

There's no difference in dark scene behavior when the TV is set in Game mode.

Because OLEDs can turn off individual pixels, the TV has perfect black uniformity with no haloing around bright objects.

The Roku Pro Series TV has very good color volume. It displays most of the DCI-P3 color space, but struggles slightly with very dark and very light colors. It can't display much beyond DCI-P3, though, so its BT.2020 coverage is very limited.

The TV has decent color volume in HDR. Saturated colors in dark scenes are displayed well thanks to the TV's nearly infinite contrast ratio. Bright colors are displayed well for the most part, but like all TVs with WOLED panels, very saturated colors are washed out and appear whiter than they should.

The TV has very good accuracy before calibration. The average color temperature is close to neutral, but blues vary quite a bit and they're underrepresented in brighter shades. Gamma is also slightly too high, so most scenes are darker than they should be. It has great color mapping, with just a few minor issues.

The TV is easy to calibrate and looks fantastic after calibration. The color temperature is basically perfect across the board after calibration, and there are no noticeable white balance issues. Color mapping actually got a bit worse after calibration, though.

See our full calibration settings.

The TV has decent accuracy in HDR before calibration. It has a slightly warm color temperature out of the box, with too much red in brighter shades. Its white balance is fantastic, with just a few minor errors in midtones and darker shades of gray. Unfortunately, while it has fairly good color mapping for the most part, there are significant luminance errors.

Unfortunately, the TV's HDR accuracy doesn't improve much after a full calibration.

Unfortunately, the Roku Pro Series OLED has sub-par PQ EOTF tracking. Most midtones and bright details are brighter than they should be. There's also a very sharp cutoff at the TV's peak brightness, which helps bright details get as bright as they can, but this causes a loss of fine gradation in bright scenes.

It tracks the PQ EOTF curve nearly perfectly when displaying a 10% window, which is commonly used by TV reviewers but doesn't necessarily match a majority of real content.

The TV has decent low-quality content smoothing. It does a good job removing macro blocking and reducing compression artifacts from streaming services. There's some minor loss of fine details, though.

The TV's upscaling is just okay. The image is a bit soft overall, which makes it hard to make out fine details, but there are no obvious upscaling artifacts.

The TV has decent gradient handling. There's noticeable banding in many shades, and it's especially noticeable in dark shadow details.

The Roku Pro Series TV has fantastic low input lag. There's very little added delay when gaming, even at a low refresh rate.

The TV supports most common resolutions, up to a maximum of 4k @ 120Hz. It also supports chroma 4:4:4, which is important for clear text from a PC.

The TV supports HDMI Forum VRR and G-SYNC, ensuring a nearly tear-free gaming experience from any VRR-enabled source. It works well across the TV's 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.

Like all OLEDs, the TV's CAD at its maximum 4k refresh rate of 120Hz is fantastic. Pixels transition almost instantly, so fast motion is very sharp. There's some very minor overshoot in shadow details that causes fast-moving shadow details to appear slightly lighter than they should be, but it's extremely minor and hard to notice.

The TV's maximum refresh rate is 120Hz, so these results are the same as the Max Refresh Rate test.

The TV has a fantastic CAD at 60Hz. Motion is crisp and clear, with no blur behind fast-moving objects. There's no noticeable overshoot at 60Hz, but there's some noticeable persistence blur.

The TV is fully compatible with everything the PS5 and PS5 Pro have to offer, including 1440p @ 120Hz and 4k @ 120Hz, as well as HDMI Forum VRR. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so it automatically switches 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 it automatically switches to Game mode to get the lowest input lag.

Unfortunately, like all OLED TVs, there's noticeable stutter when watching content. It's especially noticeable in slow and wide-panning shots.

Unfortunately, the TV's motion interpolation feature is too aggressive, and it's impossible to only add low levels without adding any soap opera effect (SOE). Even with 'Action Smoothing' set to 'Low' the TV increases the frame rate of 24p content well above 30fps. This setting reduces the frame hold time significantly, but also adds significant SOE.

The TV removes judder from any 24p content with no issues,  but it can't remove it entirely from any European content at 25p.

There's no micro judder.

Like all OLEDs, the TV has an incredibly quick response time. It's not perfect, though, and there's some minor overshoot in most transitions. This causes some shades to appear slightly lighter or darker than they should be for a brief moment, but it's not noticeable in most real content.

There are no transition artifacts.

This TV doesn't have a traditional backlight and doesn't use pulse-width modulation (PWM) to dim each pixel, but it's not completely flicker-free. There's a slight dip in brightness that corresponds to the TV's refresh rate. This differs from the PWM flicker on TVs with LED backlights and occurs on every OLED display on the market. It's not noticeable, and most people won't be bothered by this, but it can still bother people who are extra sensitive to flicker.

This TV doesn't have an optional black frame insertion feature.

The Roku Pro Series OLED has okay direct reflection handling. The screen coating doesn't do much to reduce the intensity of bright, mirror-like reflections.

Ambient light has no noticeable impact on black levels.

The total amount of reflected light is good. There are only minor diffraction artifacts around bright lights, but bright lights and windows facing the TV are clearly visible.

Ambient light slightly decreases the TV's perceived color volume, especially in lighter scenes.

The Roku Pro Series TV has an excellent viewing angle. While the image slightly degrades at a wide angle, it's not noticeable. It's an excellent choice for a wide seating arrangement.

The TV has good uniformity. There's very little dirty screen effect in the center of the screen, which is great for watching sports. The sides of the screen are very slightly darker than the center, but it's extremely minor. Like most OLED TVs, there are some faint vertical lines in dark scenes, but they're hard to notice.

The TV uses a newer WOLED panel made by LG Display called "OLED SE". It's not as bright or as colorful as the tandem panel found on the LG C6H OLED and the LG G6 OLED, with a weaker separation of colors. The higher-end Roku Pro Series LX OLED uses a different panel.

It features a redesigned subpixel structure with an RGWB subpixel order. This subpixel structure helps improve text clarity from a PC, since the red, green, and blue subpixels are in the correct order that a PC expects.

The TV uses an older chipset, so unlike the LG B6E OLED, it only supports HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on two inputs. The input labeled in purple is the eARC port, and it's one of the low-bandwidth ones, so you don't lose a high-bandwidth port by connecting a soundbar to the TV.

The TV supports eARC audio passthrough, and it works with most common audio formats. It doesn't support DTS:X or DTS-HD audio formats, which are often used as the main audio channel on physical media. You can get around this by connecting your player directly to your sound system instead of using eARC.

The Roku Pro Series OLED has a fairly simple design, but it looks nice, with thin bezels on all four sides. It looks incredibly similar to the Sony BRAVIA 6 OLED.

The blade-style feet support the TV well, but they take up a lot of space. The high position shown here lifts the TV about 3.4 inches above the table, so the vast majority of soundbars won't block the screen. There's also a low position that lowers the screen to about 1.9 inches above the table.

Footprint of the 65-inch stand: 42.3" x 11.8"

The back of the TV has a simple design, with a thin panel at the top of the screen and a thicker bottom portion that houses the electronics. The inputs face out the side and are easy to access. There are clips on the back of the feet to help with cable management.

The TV has excellent build quality. The back of the panel is made of metal, and the rest of the frame is made of high-quality plastic. There are no obvious flaws or issues with its overall construction.

The Roku Pro Series OLED runs the Roku smart interface. It has a good selection of apps, including most of the common streaming services, but the interface is very basic.

Unfortunately, like all TVs there are ads throughout the interface and home screen.

• Remote (2x AA batteries)
• Power cable
• Stickers
• Documentation

This TV was originally tested on firmware 15.3.

The TV's built-in speakers are mediocre. It has a well-balanced sound profile at low and moderate listening levels, and dialogue is clear and easy to understand. It lacks a room correction feature, though, so it can't remove the room's mode, and like most TVs, it lacks any deep bass. It gets extremely loud, but there's significant compression, and dialogue is very muted.