Here’s a question: I have an auxiliary sound system that turns on whenever I push the TV remote “on” button. If start the TV using, say, the Netflix button, will the sound system still start up as well?
Mine does.
I have a Samsung Q8F series and the preprogrammed buttons do NOT turn on the TV. (I also have a Yamaha receiver connected via eARC which does turn on and off, adjust volume, etc., through the TV.)
The Netflix button.
I use the Prime button on my Vizo remote.
The other 5 preset buttons are ignored.
I never use them, even for the services I actually use. If they were programmable I would probably do so for the services I’m using most at the time, but that changes periodically depending on content, as do my subscriptions. Pretty much the only one I use consistently is Netflix, because T-Mobile pays for it. I have never used Sling and never will. I have used YouTubeTV and Disney + but probably never will again. So that’s 3 out of 4 useless buttons. I see no need to adapt to a different procedure for watching Netflix.
My YES streamer remote has a button for its own streaming TV package, of course, as well as Netflix, Disney+ and YouTube. I use all of them.
The actual TV remote, which I have hidden in a safe place for emergencies, has no streaming buttons.
Huh. Mine is a little physically challenging to use (it requires an unusual type of dexterity to highlight the right tile) it’s pretty intuitive. I guess you need to know that the big button in the center of the remote is the “click on the highlighted thing” button. But otherwise, it’s all pretty much WYSIWYG.
I sometimes use the Netflix, Disney and Vudu buttons. The issue is that I have three Roku TVs in the house, and maybe 4 remotes floating around - and they all have different buttons, so it’s not as convenient to check the buttons before clicking so I usually just default to hitting the home button.
My Roku remote has buttons for Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, and… I think the fourth is Paramount+.
I use the Netflix button regularly. I use the Apple button occasionally, when there’s something on that channel I want to watch. I assume I probably used the Paramount button back when I subscribed to that service, but I don’t anymore. I never used the Disney button because I never subscribed to that service, but I recently signed up for the Hulu / Disney / HBO Max bundle (I only really cared about Hulu and HBO, but the bundle only cost a dollar more per month than subscribing to those two services individually, so why not?) Since I have Disney+ now I’ll probably start watching Andor and the new season of Doctor Who soon, so I will probably start using that button.
I just found out that Crackle is now defunct so that button now goes to “Vizio Watch Free” which I use to watch “Top Gear”. I guess I’ll be using that button occasionally.