Roku remotes with channel numbers?
Wow, my parents and I are having this problem with the lack of numerical buttons with a TCL HDTV (28S305)'s Roku RC. They watch it from OTA (antenna) and Internet apps (Spectrum, YouTube, CBS News, V...
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The tip of using the asterisk button to bring up screen that shows “Find a channel” does not work for me (on a brand new TCL 32inch Roku TV). When I press the asterisk button on my remote, I get a long list of options that start with “Sleep timer” and include other options like “TV Brightness” “Picture size” “Sound mode” “SAP” etc. NO “Find a channel” option anywhere to be seen. Would be great if this were an option for me.
I’m another new ROKU customer that is quite disappointed at having no way to easily change channels when TV is connected to cable service via coax without a set top box. Will not buy another Roku product until this is addressed.
Addition to last post: I am a believer in capitalism (mostly), and so will spread the word to all I know NOT to buy a Roku TV if one wants to easily change channels. Will try to get the people I know to “vote with our dollars.” Will leave review on Amazon for my Roku TV with this message as well.
Are you listening, Roku?
EEinIA wrote:Addition to last post: I am a believer in capitalism (mostly), and so will spread the word to all I know NOT to buy a Roku TV if one wants to easily change channels. Will try to get the people I know to “vote with our dollars.” Will leave review on Amazon for my Roku TV with this message as well.
Are you listening, Roku?
Roku doesn't sell the TVs, they only provide the operating system. It's the TV manufacturers that need to offer a different remote. Roku has no control over that.
I have a universal remote that does have numbers and it will enter the channel number on my TCL TV, BUT when I press the enter button the numbers disappears and nothing happens. So that indicates to me an operating system, ah hem, feature. If the TCL sees the numerical input from my remote and displays it, then why doesn't it go to that channel when I press enter? The enter button works when selecting content, so the TV recognizes that button, just not for changing channels.
So I see this as a Roku OS problem, not a TCL manufacturing problem.
