- [Man] So, what do you get in this box?
Well, the Roku Streaming Stick
comes in various array of boxes
but they're all basically the same.
You just gotta make sure that you get the remote.
Some boxes don't have that picture on it
but you can get them.
One of the first editions only came with this
and they didn't come with a remote.
Then it came out with a remote
with a cool little headphone jack in the side,
the most recent 2015 I've seen is
they do not have a headphone jack.
Doesn't matter, this is an amazing deal
for 50 to 70 bucks for one of these things
awesome streaming device.
You get in all of the boxes you get the stick,
which has an input on the back
that you use to plug in and power it.
This only takes like a penny a day to run this thing
if it was on full time
we're talking low amount of energy use for this
and a superior amount of video and entertainment
for the whole family.
So with regards to this remote,
you got a little tab here.
It looks, I didn't, wasn't sure right away
but it was just branding.
It comes with batteries that are also included
and they are AAA.
So it's pretty easy stuff.
You get this, you plug it in to the back of the TV
you have a fair amount of cable that it can reach.
And that's a great thing they thought that one through
and it can reach to a power source of some sort
or you have to get an extension cable.
They all play the same amount of channels
whether it's says 1400 or 1000.
It keeps on upgrading all the time
and gives you the opportunity to upgrade it
soon as you install it.
So let's go up to the TV now and run it through
and show you what you have to be aware of
with regards to the Roku Streaming Stick.
So now we're in the back of your TV.
Sorry about the shadows
but this is a common outlet on the back
and you'll have different HDMI ports,
two here, sometimes you have some on the side
the left side or the right side.
So you take the Roku Stick
which has an input on the back
which you will want to take the cable that you received
and plug it in to the Roku Stick.
This is important to charge
the stick and just make sure it goes in the right way.
And it's now actually does hold much better than that
there we go.
And you now have to plug this in somewhere down below,
hopefully you have something.
And so you simply just to get into one of the HDMI ports
on the back of your TV.
Too bad, it goes in one way, there you go.
Now, plug this in to your outlet.
A light will go on, on top of your Roku Stick
and you have to go to the front to the TV now
and select the right input.
So let's proceed to do so.
We start off after we've plugged in the Roku Stick
into the back of your LCD TV
and plugged it in to a power source.
The first screen that you see is a little startup screen
and it just recognizes
as soon as you put the batteries in the remote
and you get this page right here.
With the remote, you'll just either click English
or another different language.
'Course we speak English.
So clicking the ok button in the center there,
you get a next screen.
Get ready to stream!
You'll complete the guide setup in three simple steps:
connect to your network, get the latest software,
activate your Roku.
So we'll definitely wanna upgrade
but we'll have to continue first.
So in the bottom right, it reads continue.
So we will click the ok again.
Searching for the wireless networks.
Of course you'll have to do this
at every place you take the stick.
If you take it to hotels or a friend's house
you'll always have to go through this.
You go in you find your wifi you click ok.
Now you can have some fun with the keyboard.
Now this is a little different with the sticks here.
So you'll have to click that.
So let me just type that in.
Once you're ready, click Connect.
Wait, it looks for your wifi.
Hopefully you're connected in a good range
to your wifi and not too far away
because this is what it's all about
you better have a good signal
you know, five megabits per second
they read that 1.5 and then once everything connects,
you get this.
So you can preset this up for your kids or family member
if this is a gift
I totally recommend that
to make things easy for the first time
that someone else tries it.
Take a bit, this is like firmware upgrade.
You know where it's out of
this came on the market like you know last year,
this time it's a regular updates.
You probably have to do this through it also.
Again, it just makes it more of a stable system
and since it's not land cabled in with the wire
it can go slower based on your different internet speed.
There is a version of the box that
is a faster processor internally.
If you're looking for a snappier
based movies to start up then
you might want to consider this.
But for the, you know $50 range for this Roku Stick,
I mean you can't go wrong
waiting for a little buffering is no big deal.
It then restarts.
Ooh pretty.
It's almost like a wee.
(laughs)
Do it.
It's fun and playful.
okay, it's looking Pixar to me now.
I'm gonna sit here and wait that
for just for a minute or so see what happens.
I'll let you know if I gotta press the ok thing.
I'm pretty sure, oh it went through,
I didn't have to press anything.
So you just wait, it will go to a next screen.
By the way this is the first time I'm doing this.
So I'm doing this with ya as a new user.
Really cool purplish background, the brand.
And now we wanna set to what it is here
and while here it's 10 word Canada.
Well, let's go for the Canada it's really nicely late there
I'm in Eastern Toronto.
Next screen press ok, activate your Roku to access.
Here's how from your PC, phone or tablet,
go to roku.com/link then enter this code.
okay, so I'm gonna do this.
I'm gonna go to roku.com and I'm gonna do this.
Once again the screen will automatically update.
So I'm gonna run downstairs,
I'm gonna do that roku.com/link.
okay, as soon as you get back to your computer,
you need to set up an account at the Roku website
shown on the TV screen.
So I've went there and typed it in and come to this page.
Now we have two selections,
you can sign in the Roku account
if you've already created one
or you can go in and create an account for yourself,
your kids, your friends, who if this is a gift.
And go ahead again, you can start this account prior
but you won't be able to link it
until you plug the device in to get that code
'cause that's what we've gotta do.
We've gotta take that code from TV and put it in.
So once you create the click the account
you'll be given in a three step process.
You have to enter in your first name, last name,
email, verify email, put a unique password,
say yes you're older than 18,
you've read the terms and conditions
and click these things down here.
And then there's a little code here
that you have to type in the text that you see.
One, five, one eight and that
and then you'll click the blue button at the bottom
click continue and once you do that to start an account
and then it takes you to the second step
which this is where you have to add a credit card.
You can choose your type put your credit card number in,
month, year, security code,
which is that three pin on the back.
Your billing address make it in sync with stuff
there's a postcard and then click complete.
And as soon as it accepts your credit card,
you'll have an official Roku account
that can be attached and linked.
So once you get that, and then you know you accepted
you get taken into your account page,
which in the backend, a manager account
you have a little button down here called link a device.
And this is where
once you've gotta set up with a credit card,
'cause you need a credit card to start an account
and so you have to know this.
Kids can't just buy this and do this
and those that are gotta borrow their parents' credit card
which you will have to tell your kids once you attach it,
do not make purchases without your consent.
But that's not a thing to worry about
because you know we all have great kids.
So you get in there and you take the code.
Now this code is different than the other one
'cause I've done this a few times for you to test all angles
and you enter in this code,
you have to click I have read and agreed
to the end user license agreement.
So you check that and they look check,
you click submit, loaded.
And now you're done,
download the Roku mobile app and control your device.
So we can also connect and install and the mobile app
on the apps, on the Apple store, the Google play store
and you can control the videos to play from your phone
laying in bed, sitting on the couch.
It's really amazing.
So let's do a little bit more and go back upstairs
and see how this connects.
So I just came back to my TV room,
which is in another room from my computer,
where I created the link the account with the code
and set up the user account with the credit card,
came back and boom, all done.
So now I guess we will just take our Roku,
beautiful, beautiful remote.
Plastic, nice controls and go and click ok.
Let's go.
Oh, it just the button had to go on and away.
Download the Roku mobile app and boom it's on.
And we have it.
So I press ok it now connects.
So home feed, you can go through my feed,
search, streaming channels, settings.
Let's go check this out
you can go on and check out the themes, themes.
Do you want Graphene?
Do you want the Roku?
Do you want
maybe a Graphene maybe a Nebula
maybe this oh, that looks really funky.
Check that out.
Yeah, so it takes a little bit of time to update
but we, you can customize it, the look and feel.
I mean if this is going to be your main movie network
system to choose all of these, hey that's, sure why not?
It looked cool.
I'm a sci-fi guy.
Anyway, there's a lot of things that you can change in here.
I've also heard that you have to
take a look into the different types of things where 1080
because it's default is 720.
So why don't we take a look
and you have to reset it to 1080 if you want 1080p.
Now I'm gonna keep it at 720
because I wanna conserve my bandwidth
and you might too and not use up the internet north pole
or have your kids pulling 1080p which can cause lags
if many people in your house are using
the device to watch movies in multiple rooms.
I mean, we're in a HD a society today.
So there's this, you can turn on the captions,
if you wanna turn the TV off,
you have audio selection for this type of audio
that you wanna listen to.
Let's go through here.
There's a whole bunch and there's the network it sees that
you know it sees my internet and the screensavers.
Hey, screensaver might be neat that you can set also.
So that's all pretty neat.
So I'm just gonna use, I'm using the arrows back and forth
you're not just the ok.
And I'm gonna go back up.
So there's a whole bunch of streaming channels.
The neat thing about the search that I've heard is
you can do a search on this
and it doesn't just search one of the things.
So if you were attached to Netflix
and a couple other movie networks
they will search all of them
then give you the results from all of them
and you can choose the one that you like the best.
You have streaming channel store.
So you can go in and you can find tons.
So I would be like, definitely be hooking up YouTube
'cause you're gonna want to do that.
You're gonna want to probably go into here.
I mean, this is just beautiful, beautiful, beautiful stuff.
UFC.
We have, I mean, like I just got into using Spotify
so I'll be looking for that.
New things, here we go.
So you can by actual type.
So music, music should actually pull in shortly.
Vevo, where's, where, where, where?
They don't see it
'cause I definitely will be hooking up my Spotify account
because I am so addicted to Spotify
and you could definitely search.
Let's just do a test and search
and see if I could find it P, spot
see spot run.
There it is, I can see it.
Boom, I would definitely be installing that.
You go here and you go over and you click yes
and you say, I agree.
Okay, so this is a lot of loading the channels first.
I mean, you have to know that these take accounts
you have to set up accounts on all these things
and then you link them and then you should be good to go.
Spotify has been added to the home screen
you say, ok you go back.
Back, back, back, back, back
and you keep moving back and the streaming channels
and you can go to my feed, my home and there's Spotify.
So I mean the last real thing of this is
you go into Spotify or Netflix let's do that
and you could sign in
and this is where you would then just sign in right there.
You'd click it and away you'd go.
Right now we're not gonna sign in
and this is primarily just to get you understand there
but understand there is a back button
right here in the top left of your menu,
which you can also do and go back
and back to your main screen.
There is a home button here which you can do that too.
So let's press that and you go back to your main.
So this just keeps getting better and better.
If you have the upgraded
or you've got to have a different version of the remote,
you may have a little headphone jack in here
which people really love
but you gotta pay extra for that.
I'm okay playing it through my TV
and just turning down the sound
you have just like any sort of controller
for playing movies.
You have a back, you have a forward,
you have a play/pause right here, really easy, easy stuff
or to refresh things and going through.
So I thoroughly enjoy this Roku and really advise it.
This is really a step up from having a Netflix addition
just in your DVD or blue ray player to go through
and you now can go and put down the physical media,
sign up for your accounts
and start using all of these great apps.
If you have any questions in regards to this
please put them below the video
and I will try to get back to you
in a reasonable amount of time.
Thank you very much for watching this video.
Enjoy your movies and music.
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