User manual
Table Of Contents
- Top cover
- Safety
- 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 a Roku Voice Remote Pro
- 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
- Using the Live TV Channel Guide (U.S. only)
- Viewing program information
- Adjusting settings while watching a program
- Pausing live TV
- More Ways to Watch (U.S. only)
- Automatic network recommendation
- Switching TV inputs
- Using Roku Voice commands
- 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
- Using Apple AirPlay and the Apple Home app
- 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
- Warranty
- License
- Back cover
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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 provider connected to the
ANT/CABLE input. On your Roku TV, you can watch broadcast TV in much the same
way you watch other entertainment choices: select the Live TV tile from the Home
screen.
The first time you select the Live TV 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.