A:Answer 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!
