Well, I'll test it on another tv, since I ask for help here and that's an answer I'm getting. I think it's pointless to try it on another tv, that's my thought, not your thought, but you say to do it, and so I'll do it out only so I can have this problem solved.
I had explained in my post why I didn't want to try it on another tv, I said a reasonable reason why I don't want to, but per your advice, I'll put the roku into another tv to see if it works there. The HDMI extender cable, I think I really need to use it. The streaming stick is extremely long in length, or the space where it is fitting, the width of the space between the HDMI port and the area opposite it, is extremely small in length. I felt that I had to bend or twist the streaming stock for it to remain inserted in the HDMI port, so roku saying in their instructions that the roku isn't fitting, so use an extender did help with making the roku fit better to my tv.
I had said in my post I've gone through the instructions 8 times already. That is also including troubleshooting at each instruction through 8 times of doing the instructions if I did each instruction exactly as it says, and what I'm supposed to see when I’ve done the instruction, like seeing a blue light rather than a red light. I also went to go.roku.com which is a website listed in the instructions, which ended up telling me that to pay an additional $40 for them to give me maintenance to solve my problem. I hadn't heard that there are additional costs to a roku product other than the product cost itself, that seems like bait and switch, so I didn’t go through the maintenance and pay more money. I've also spent a week googling many, many, many questions to try to get an answer that matches my problem. I also did my best to read a good bit of this roku forum to try to get an answer on my own. So you are completely wrong that I didn't try to do any troubleshooting at all, I did a big amount for a product whose issues seems to be solved by posting onto a forum and not providing a customer phone support for a product they bought.
