Hey this is Michael from MichaelSaves.com and today I want to show you how to
get started with Hulu Live TV using a Roku device. Hulu with Live TV is my
favorite live TV streaming service because of the content, but some people
say they have trouble finding the content they want to watch because of
the navigation. It's definitely different from cable TV, but I think you're gonna
like it once you get the hang of it and that's what this video is for. So once
you open up Hulu Live TV you need to create a profile. After you sign up for
your free trial this is the first step. I'm just going to create a test profile
to show you exactly what it's like when you sign up for Hulu Live TV for the
first time. Throwing in a sample birth date here and we'll be on our way in
just a second.Using my Roku remote clicking okay to create a profile and
now the personalization begins. You want to personalize your profile because it's
going to make it so much easier to find the shows and movies that you want to
watch on Hulu Live TV.It'll ask you to choose your interests. You just navigate
up, down, left and right and click OK when you find something that you like.
Clicking up to the top and then OK to move on to the next menu. Asking for a
few shows. I'm just going to select a few then I'm moving on to sports. Starts with
football but if you move up you can move to the right and to the left
choose your favorite team and then I'm moving up and moving on. Finally your
favorite networks and I'll have more on the channel lineup a little bit later on
that's one of the reasons why I really like Hulu Live TV. I'm gonna click finish.
So this is it and right now we are on the home screen and as you see the
recommendations are based all of that personalization that I just
did.In addition to the lineup that they have here you can search your channels
these are the channels that I selected
there's also a bunch of different categories to help you find stuff to
watch really quickly I spend most of my time at the live TV guide and when you
press down you'll get the live TV guide this just has a list of all the
networks and what's on right now as well as what's coming up immediately
next.Now you see I keep clicking to the right and nothing else comes up. All you
can see is what's on right now and what's up next when you're using Hulu
live TV with a Roku device. Moving on from live TV I'm going to show you My
Stuff. Now this is where you manage your DVR and speaking of the DVR you get 50
hours of cloud DVR storage with who live TV in the base plan that costs 40
dollars a month as of December 2018 who knows what's going to happen next year
if you want to be able to fast-forward through commercials of your DVR
recordings, that's going to cost you extra $15 a month but you'll also get
200 hours of cloud DVR. I'm all about keeping costs low, so I've been able to
manage with the 50 hours and not being able to fast-forward through the
commercials. I'll show you how to add something to the DVR in just a second.
Now as I move up to the top menu I click right I'm under browse quickly on
networks I'm navigating all the way to the right because I want to give you a
list of the channels that come with Hulu live TV you may or may not get local
channels that depends on your zip code you can enter it on Hulu's website and
find out regional sports it's the same thing but here are some of the main
networks:A&E, Big Ten Network, Bravo
News will have CNN MSNBC and Fox News Discovery Disney ESPN
Fox Sports 1 & 2 HGTV History lifetime these are just a few of the
highlights SEC network is their TLC USA if you prefer to browse by TV shows you
can do that too and this is great because it'll help you find some of that
on-demand content you get Hulu live TV but you also get who lose entire library
with the limited commercials plan that's included for $40 a month if you would
like the no commercials plan of the standard Hulu service you can pay an
extra four dollars a month for that but from this menu it's where you might want
to search for some of the Hulu originals that are offered and if you can't find
anything using live TV or the Browse function you can always search for it
let's say I want to watch Seinfeld I've put in two letters and look it's already
there at the top so now I'm going to show you how to add something to your
DVR you see right below Seinfeld it has the star so I'm gonna click the star
four options and I can click OK to add the series to my stuff just navigating
back to my stuff and there it is there Seinfeld
clicking down because I want to check out the recording options you have an
option to record this program to cloud DVR or not Seinfeld is part of Hulu's
traditional service so all the episodes are there I really don't need to record
it to the DVR and then the second option is probably best for current season
episodes or series that are currently running because it'll ask you whether to
record new episodes or new end reruns in
addition here under the show I really like how it gives you this you may also
like tab who is always trying to help you find something else to watch and
this is just another way that they show you what else is on the service so I
think I did a pretty good job of giving you the ins and outs of how to get
around Hulu for the very first time I want to recap the pros and cons of Hulu
because this is the best live TV streaming service for me but it's not
going to be the best live TV series there's TV streaming service for
everyone a few things to consider you are limited to two streams at a time
that means I can watch this TV I can watch one in the bedroom but I can't
have a third TV running with Hulu in the basement also you cannot watch outside
of your home network when you're on the road you can only watch using the mobile
service you can watch in your cell phone but I can't bring my Roku and plug it in
at my family's house in Florida and also have the service in Atlanta that is done
to prevent people from sharing accounts the other thing is that DVR if you want
to fast-forward through the commercials you're gonna have to pay an extra 15
dollars a month and this really doesn't become all that cost-effective you may
want to look at other services for me this is worth it because I really like
the quality of Hulu live TV and I like the content I don't know of a streaming
service that has a better mix of news entertainment sports networks and that
entire streaming library for only $40 a month so I hope this video helped you
out if you have any questions leave them in the comments below I've tested Hulu
live TV as well as all the other streaming services I can tell you the
ins and outs of all of them thanks for watching and visit my blog for more
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