Roku TV and the Roku player are getting new features including better search and discovery to complement its more than 400 free live linear TV channels. The upgrades will begin rolling out with the introduction of Roku OS 12.5 in the coming weeks. Highlights include the ability to follow a favorite sports team, new music channels and the ability to link Roku’s Photo Streams image-based screensaver to a Google Photos account, so personal pictures can be displayed between viewing events. The changes are across a wide range of features targeting sports enthusiasts and others, including technical purists and casual viewers who need help finding entertainment options.

In addition to greater ease diving into the right streaming service to watch your favorite team play, other improvements for sports viewers include letting people “watch clips from recent sporting events they may have missed or want to relive,” Roku explains in a press release.

Roku “is expanding its foray into sports with the addition of motorsports in early 2024,” The Verge writes, noting before that happens Roku will “support Max’s upcoming sports content sometime in the next few weeks.”

The company is also “letting users track live and upcoming events by adding teams to a curated ‘My Favorites’ row by clicking the favorite button on the game page,” Engadget reports.

“Expert Picture Setting,” which now comes to 4K devices, offers “more ways to customize picture settings” when streaming on Roku TV by enabling adjustments to color temperature, color space, gamma correction and noise reduction “directly from the TV,” Roku says, noting that expert picture settings are already available via the Roku Mobile app.

As previously announced, the Roku Express 4K with Voice Remote Pro ($49.99 MSRP) is now available to U.S. customers exclusively via Amazon. “The new bundle combines Roku’s most affordable player and the company’s best remote on the market, offering streamers an accessible device that’s perfect for upgrading their current TVs,” Roku says.

Other improvements include “Personalized Live TV,” with a Live TV Channel Guide that aims to enable simpler live TV browsing by “personalizing the order of channels in the Guide and removing channel numbers.”

Also added is the ability to create music playlists with controls like shuffle and skip ahead, and the ability to add video playlists to a Save List. Music recommendations are also becoming available, with suggestions from the catalogs of partners, including Stingray, Vevo and Warner Music Group.”