Upsides:I love these TV's. I already owned the 2016 model and actually purchased this one, the 2017 model for my sons' bedroom but after I found out that a Roku Enhanced Remote with the ear phone jack could be paired with it and no matter if I was watching one of the Roku apps or watching our X1 service thru the HDMI, I could hear it, I quickly switched ours into their room and theirs, this one, into our room lol.I had previously been able to pair an Enhanced Remote with the 2016 model but could only listen thru the headphone jack when I was in one of the apps. If I was to use one of the HDMI outlets then it wouldn't work. For some reason on this one, the 2017 model, I'm able to use it no matter what.Also a plus, the remote finder feature works like a charm. To activate it you must select it using the hard buttons on the bottom of the TV by pressing the center button then scrolling using either left or right buttons till you reach Remote finder and then select it using the center button again.*See Picture*The TV also has a cool feature in the picture settings within the advanced settings when you press the * key when you're in an app or in one of the HDMI outlets, is that it has a smart contrast feature that helps give you the most clear picture automatically. You have to turn this on manually for each picture profile (Normal, Sports, Vivid, Low Power, Movie) in the advanced settings screen.*See Picture*They changed the footprint where the mount attachment attached to the back of the TV. They actually used to have this blown out footprint that made no sense because you always had to tinker with the mount to get it to attach to the TV. So you'd buy a mount and then have to almost MacGyver something so it would attach and then be good to go. Now they made to footprint the smallest, actually a lot like the default pattern of any mount (It's 4x4x4x4). Either way they made it better and no more MacGyvering anything lol.Downsides:For me personally there is 2 downsides with this TV (when compared to the previous year)DOWNSIDE #1: From what I can notice is the sound quality isn't quite good. I've tried changing the sound profile to each and every one to no avail. We would normally have the profile set to either SPEECH or THEATER with the volume set to 30 MAX and that would suffice. However once I switched TV's with the boys we noticed that we've had to have the volume up way more than we normally would've with the 2016 model.**See Picture**The speakers are still located on the bottom of the TV just like before. Only thing I can think of is maybe somewhere within the equalizer settings deep in the OS is maybe where the problem lies...**See Picture**Also they changed where the hard buttons to control the TV are placed. On the 2016 model it was on the back right side, where the power cable is now located. Now the buttons are placed on the bottom in the center in between the speakers.They also changed the status light, also in the center both currently and previously, however they changed the colors from RED (2016) to WHITE (2017)**See Picture**DOWNSIDE #2: They changed where the cables come into the TV! **See Picture**The 2016 model was conveniently located along the back towards the bottom and was easily able to get to, especially if the TV was mounted flat on the wall, like it is in our sons' room. Whereas in our room it's mounted on a swivel mount it doesn't really matter but I personally do not like that everything EXCEPT the power cable is located along the left side and the power in on the right. It screws up having the cables move when you move the position of the TV. Before it wouldn't matter because with them along the bottom they wouldn't move because they were in the center. Now if I have the TV facing towards the left and want to move it to the right I need to loosen the cables up prior to moving the TV. It just irks me that they would need to mess around with a design feature that worked...Other than those two things I find this TV to be both a high quality item and a good bang for your buck. It's definitely worth it, even if you don't use the Roku side of the TV it's still worth buying, since you figure you're more than likely going to drop around the same price for a normal 32" TV might as well just get this one and you know you always have a Roku device if you need it. When we were cord cutters we exclusively used FireTV's to stream with, but I got this TV (the 2016 one) because of the price and knowing there's a Roku device built in if I ever needed it and I've yet to have a problem (*KNOCK ON WOOD!*)