welcome back to the core cars news tech
lab today I'm going to show everybody
how to set up your brand-new Roku player
Roku stick and more upon your TV now
Roku's are a great device out there and
setting up is very easy though I find a
lot of people try to do it by calling a
phone number to set it up now Roku does
it by setting up through your screen and
going to a web browser and compared to
create an account and link it to an
existing count you need to be careful
about anybody who tries to charge you a
fee to set up your Roku or a yearly
subscription Roku does not have a yearly
subscription and there is no fee to set
up your Roku player but some people will
try to convince you you need to so be
careful anybody offering phone support
or a fee to set up your Roku they're not
likely related to Roku at all because
your Roku is 100% free to set up and I'm
going to show you how now Roku players
all do it the same way
Roku TVs do also but they have a few
additional steps like scanning for
channels or naming your HDMI ports but
today I want demo how it works on Roku
ultra Roku stick Roku stick plus Roku
premier or the Roku Express's so pretty
much all current Roku's and pretty much
all older Roku's work like this but
first before I show you if you're new
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most out of your Roku so let's take a
look at this when you first launch your
Roku you get this very basic screen asks
you to pick a language so we're gonna
start with English here it will ask you
a few things
do you have it connected to Ethernet for
Wired or do you want connect to a
wireless network here so we're going to
connect it to a wireless network it's
very simple so you get the long list
if you ever connected a laptop or a
phone you're gonna be right at home here
just connect it to whatever network out
there works for you
some will real quick pause the video
type in my Wi-Fi password and I'll be
right back okay now I've entered my
password as you can see I've got it all
set up here you can select it to show
your password or higher password if you
want to double check if you spelled it
correctly now all you got to do is hit
connect once you've entered your
password for your Wi-Fi network and it
will run through a quick connections
process you may get a few times receive
this black screen that has to do with my
TV's HDMI port I think being damaged
now once you've enter your Wi-Fi
password it's going to ask you to auto
detect now I'm doing this on a 4k
version of the Roku from home ultra
there's many others but it will also
detect if it's HD 4k and more so just
select Auto detect and you can see here
it's gonna test for what kind of
connection is available now for me it's
saying I can go up to 4k HDR at 60
frames per second your TV may be at
1080p
maybe 720p it may be a standard def TV
for ATO don't worry it will auto detect
whatever kind of TV you have and set it
up so there's no need to worry about you
know is this Roku gonna work on my older
TV it will so I always recommend going
with the automatic one right here as it
will 99.9% of time in my experience
properly pick which one it wants and
will even test it so it's testing it if
I don't respond in a time it won't work
I'm gonna say yes the screen looks great
now it's going check remote settings the
Roku stick stick plus ultra all come
through modes now that have volume
control for your TV so you can control
the volume on your TV which is a pretty
great feature so I'm gonna check that
and we're gonna see here in a second is
there music playing yeah I am able to
control my TV I haven't muted right now
so yep so I can as you can see control
the volume on my TV now I will be able
to power it on and off which is a pretty
great feature there for to be able to do
it now here's where people get in
trouble Roku comm / link that's where
you need to go to set up your Roku it
gives you this little code this code
won't work anymore by the time I post
this video I've already linked my
account they'll be all done so I need to
go to a web browser I need to enter Roku
comm / link well link in the show it's
down below and then enter in the code
here I apologize put that flashing it'll
go away in quick second so I'm gonna go
to my computer set that up real quick
come back and let you
know how it works so we'll be right back
okay so back up my computer now and I
went to as you can see Roku comm / link
so it's a roku comm / link it will add
the my dot roku comm / link to it
automatically and the first screen you
get here is - please enter the code
displayed on your TV so I'm gonna do
that right now the code that we all saw
on the TV a min ago so right here does
not capitalization does not matter in it
and you get two options if you have a
Roku account you're good to go if you
need to create an account you can go
select this by it will ask you for an
email address a password it's really
simple but I'm gonna go in here to my
account real quick and show you this in
action one second while I log in I'll be
right back okay I've now signed into my
account
it was very quick if you're setting up
an account it's just like creating an
account on pretty much every other
website tell us your name tell us your
email address create a password this
allows you to also manage multiple
Roku's to one email account so you can
have three or four Roku's in your house
all linked together all getting the same
apps and more but the first thing you
have to do here is once you've done that
it brings you to name your device now
it's by default Roku altro up I can name
this anything I want
you know Roku living room or Roku
bedroom or in my case Roku office
because I'm using this in the office and
then will ask you where is this one
located and there I can create a custom
name I'm just gonna select office here
and let's say this is the Roku that's
why your kid's name so you can name it
Roku Jen or something whatever you want
to name it once you've done that it's
like to have read and agreed to the User
Agreement you could read that if you
want and you can take a look at all the
other Roku's I have here right now which
we don't need to worry about but here we
go
do you play for cable Sally no I do not
but it doesn't give you option to that
you may quit oh dear and by movies not
through there don't subscribe to any of
these apps yeah please it please pre
install all of these channels for me
next and now let's build our chant lamp
I can go in here and find other roku
channels I enjoy I like news and more
through this so it'll give me
suggestions of existing roku channels
that I should pre install on my Roku so
you can see here all these different
news ones I could add if I so choose to
add them to my Roku alright next one is
a pretty nice one here this is where I
could automatically log in some of them
like I've previously linked by Hulu
counts so it's automatically remembering
the offers rain out there there and now
I can go to offers and I can say I would
like to take advantage of seven days
free Showtime or seven days freeze Stars
epics etc many of these offers are only
good for new customers alright so that
is setting it up on your computer now
when you go back to your TV you'll see
that they're already being installed
there let's go back and take a look at
that in action so now that we've set it
up on the computer my road crews
automatically installing them you see at
120 I apologize about the flashing I
have 120 it's installing so everything I
told it to install and everything I had
previously installed because I was a
previous Roku owner is now being
installed now when I go to my Roku TV as
it's doing that once you finish that it
will auto boot into this screen here so
this is what you'll be greeted with all
the channels you've previously installed
a beer right here so you'd be good to go
you won't need to worry about finding
once everything that was in that
onboarding process will be right there
which is a pretty cool feature that
they're all logged in now some of them
like Hulu you could log in when you're
in a set process others like Netflix
you'll need to log in to think of this a
lot like your smartphone you know you
download the Netflix app and then you
have to go and log into it so there you
go that is all that is required to set
up your Roku player again follow the
instructions on the screen don't try to
call anybody often they're not real Roku
people and don't pay for anything once
you've bought your Roku setting it up is
free now services like Netflix
you do have a monthly fee just like they
would on your phone or tablet so keep
that mind I hope this video helped you
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