User manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome
- Connections and setup
- Connecting an antenna, cable, or satellite box
- Connecting external equipment with a composite AV video cable
- Connecting external equipment with an HDMI® cable
- Connecting headphones or analog soundbar
- Connecting headphones to the Roku Enhanced Voice Remote
- Connecting an AV receiver or digital soundbar
- Preparing for Internet connectivity
- AC power
- Roku remote batteries
- Roku TV remote
- Panel buttons
- Guided Setup
- The Home screen
- Benefits of connecting
- Setting up live TV
- Using your TV
- Status indicator
- Standby mode energy savings
- Getting help
- Opting in to Smart TV experience (U.S. only)
- Watching live TV channels
- Pausing live TV
- More Ways to Watch (U.S. only)
- Switching TV inputs
- Playing content from USB storage devices
- Playing content from local network media servers
- Setting up a payment method
- Using your TV in a hotel or dorm room
- Roku voice remotes (select models only)
- Adjusting TV settings
- Featured Free (U.S. only)
- My Feed
- Searching for something to watch
- Using the Roku Channel Store
- Customizing your TV
- Parental controls
- More settings
- Other devices
- FAQ
Setting up live TV
In addition to the other entertainment possibilities of your Roku TV, you might want to
watch broadcast channels from an antenna or cable TV service connected to the ANT input.
On your Roku TV, you can watch broadcast TV in much the same way you watch other
entertainment choices: select the LiveTV tile from the Home screen.
The first time you select the LiveTV tile, you have to set up the TV tuner. Setting up the TV
tuner scans for active channels and adds them to your Live TV channel list.
Why do I have to set up the TV tuner?
Not everyone needs to use the TV tuner. For example, you might have a set top box provided by a
cable or satellite company that receives all of your channels. Most of these set top boxes use an HDMI®
connection.
More and more people are watching only streaming TV and do not have a TV antenna or cable/satellite
service. If you don’t need the TV tuner, you can bypass setting it up and instead remove it from the
Home screen as explained in Remove unwanted tiles.
When you set up live TV, the TV scans the signals on its antenna input for channels with a good signal,
and adds those to the channel list, skipping dead channels and channels with a very weak signal.
The TV lets you add two analog channels, even if they have no signal, for the purpose of using an older
set top box, VCR, or game console that can only output a signal on analog channel 3 or 4. Typically,
you’ll only need one of these channels, but both are provided to make setup simpler. You can hide the
one you don’t want as explained in Edit live TV channel lineup.
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