Can you just use as a tv and cable box? null

You can use this tv with a cable box, or you can use the Roku to access your cable subscription. If I am interpreting your question correctly (I hope I am!), you want to use this tv as just a typical tv and do not care about the “smart tv”/Roku aspect; you don’t want to utilize the Roku. In that case, all you would do is attach the cable box cable to the back of the tv as usual, and pick that input. I subscribe to Spectrum, and instead of paying every month to rent the cable box, I watch our cable via the Spectrum app in the Roku. But I do not have tons of channels; I only have the “pick 10 channels” bundle so I do not need a numerical keypad, which Roku does not have. If you have the typical cable box because you have a big cable bundle with lots of channels, you don’t want to use the Roku remote to access those channels, you need a numerical keypad. Hope this helps!

If you have a Roku tv or a streaming device and a cable provider like comcast your roku tv dosent need a cable box to get cable programing. Comcast, for example, has an xfinity beta app that allows you to get Comcast programing without a cable box.

Yes, you can set the TV to automatically go to the cable box when it's turned on. You can skip the roku homepage.

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You can use this tv with a cable box, or you can use the Roku to access your cable subscription. If I am interpreting your question correctly (I hope I am!), you want to use this tv as just a typical tv and do not care about the “smart tv”/Roku aspect; you don’t want to utilize the Roku. In that case, all you would do is attach the cable box cable to the back of the tv as usual, and pick that input. I subscribe to Spectrum, and instead of paying every month to rent the cable box, I watch our cable via the Spectrum app in the Roku. But I do not have tons of channels; I only have the “pick 10 channels” bundle so I do not need a numerical keypad, which Roku does not have. If you have the typical cable box because you have a big cable bundle with lots of channels, you don’t want to use the Roku remote to access those channels, you need a numerical keypad. Hope this helps!
Answered by kltmom 5 years ago
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If you have a Roku tv or a streaming device and a cable provider like comcast your roku tv dosent need a cable box to get cable programing. Comcast, for example, has an xfinity beta app that allows you to get Comcast programing without a cable box.
Answered by JohnC 5 years ago
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Yes, you can set the TV to automatically go to the cable box when it's turned on. You can skip the roku homepage.
Answered by Cheaps 5 years ago
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