This is the first Roku TV smart projector

Aurzen’s D1R Cube projector trades Google TV for Roku TV. | Image: Roku

Aurzen has announced a caller portable projector that volition beryllium the archetypal to tally the Roku TV OS already recovered connected TVs from brands similar TCL and Hisense. The caller Aurzen D1R Cube volition person entree to fashionable streaming apps similar Netflix, Disney Plus, and Amazon Prime, positive Roku Originals and implicit 500 FAST unrecorded channels.

The D1R Cube is disposable starting contiguous for $169.99 done Amazon and Aurzen’s online store successful gray, white, and greenish colour options. Alongside the $299 tri-fold Zip, the Cube volition beryllium 1 of Aurzen’s astir aggressively priced projectors. But its constricted capabilities volition perchance marque it better suited arsenic a portable solution for bringing movie nighttime on connected your adjacent camping travel alternatively of the centerpiece of your location theatre setup.

Aurzen says the Cube is susceptible of projecting an representation up to 150 inches successful size. With conscionable 330 ANSI lumens of brightness, though, you’ll privation a reflective surface and a wholly acheronian country to debar an representation that’s dim oregon washed-out. For comparison, the Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro projector that Anker announced astatine IFA 2025 boasts 3,500 ANSI lumens of brightness. And portion the Cube does enactment 4K content, it lone displays it astatine 1080p.

Despite its budget-minded pricing, the D1R Cube includes features similar automatic absorption and keystone adjustments for easier setup, 5W built-in speakers located connected either side, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth for connecting the projector to louder wireless speakers oregon headphones. It besides supports Apple AirPlay truthful you tin watercourse video and audio straight from your iPhone and iPad. You tin usage Roku’s mobile app arsenic a distant power with dependable commands, and Roku Smart Home lets you get notifications from different astute devices astir your home, including entree to unrecorded feeds from information cameras.

The bulk of the all-in-one projectors disposable today, including models from Xgimi and Anker, diagnostic Google TV. Although that OS provides entree to a larger assortment of apps (including games) erstwhile compared to Roku TV, galore entry-level projectors moving Google TV person not been certified to natively entree Netflix, requiring further hardware similar a dongle to usage 1 of the astir fashionable streaming apps. Roku TV provides not lone that app but entree to a batch of subscription-free content, including FAST channels and the room from the defunct streaming level Quibi, which Roku acquired successful aboriginal 2021.