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Turn on Instant Replay to quickly hear lines you might have missed
Dialogue can often be hard to catch. Whether the actors are muttering or noise from your home makes it hard to hear what's happening, Roku's instant replay feature makes it easier to quickly figure out what you missed.
Pressing the Circular Arrow button on your remote automatically rewinds whatever you're watching by 10 seconds. But you can also add closed captioning in order to hear and read exactly what just happened.
To enable closed captioning on instant replay, hit the Home button on your Roku remote and scroll down to Settings. From there, click on Accessibility. Now click on Captions Mode. Here you want to scroll down and hit On Replay.
Now, when you hit the replay button on your remote, it should automatically give you the last few seconds of what you watched, along with the closed captioning for that time.
It's important to note that this doesn't work as advertised on all of the content on every channel, but when it does work, it's pretty magical.
And here's another tip if you have visitors:
Set up a special mode just for guests
It can be great to have guests, but it can be annoying feeling obliged to offer them your streaming login info if they want to use your TV. No one wants to be rude, but it's also not a good idea to share passwords. Roku's guest mode addresses this conundrum by providing a place where your guests can sign in to their own streaming accounts instead of using yours.
To enable this feature, you'll have to add a PIN to your Roku account, so your guests won't be able to automatically access your personal content. Guests can then click on Guest Mode, where they'll be prompted to choose a sign-off date.
Guests will have a home screen with some default channels, but will be able to download anything they want. They'll be able to sign in using their own accounts and stream their shows as though the Roku were their own. On their chosen sign-off date, their profile will be deleted from the system. This could be a useful feature for vacation rental owners. Now if only the physical cleanup was this easy.