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If you have a Comcast Xfinity X1 box, then it's time to upgrade to an Xfinity Voice Remote and find out what it's like to have a device that listens and responds to your requests directly. Better yet, it's a free upgrade from Comcast if you're already an Xfinity customer. Dave Taylor from http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ steps you through setup and the basics of the Xfinity Voice Remote.
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hi Dave Taylor here and this time I want
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to talk about this what's this this is
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the old remote from the Comcast Xfinity
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box now you look at it and it's a pretty
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basic remote and it worked quite well
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but we're done with it because now
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Xfinity has this this is the new voice
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remote so they sent me one to play with
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it's pretty darn cool but let's start
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with an unboxing you ready it's in a box
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it's not in a box
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how's that for cool but it's actually a
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really nice remote there's a couple bits
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of plastic you'll have to pull off
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particularly the one in the back so the
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battery is alive but then it's actually
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really easy to set it up on the bottom
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of the remote there's a little setup
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button so what you want to do is turn on
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your TV turn on your box and then you
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push and hold this button and then the
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little light at the top will turn green
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and then you push the Xfinity button
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right and I'll zoom in you can see both
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of these buttons here and then it'll
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prompt you on the TV to set up the
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remote there's little code you punch in
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and then it can control your television
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and there's some codes you can punch in
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and it actually will default to what the
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old remote did so hopefully you won't
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have to do anything and you can also
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control the sound bar separately which
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is great because that's my setup so I
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have a vizio 4k TV I have a vizio sound
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bar and it took me I don't know maybe
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about 30 seconds to go through
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everything with this and it's all fully
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set up ready to roll so let's spin the
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camera around and let me learn how to
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use the voice remote while you get to
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watch what's going on
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alright so we're ready to go Here I am
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looking at my guide which I got by
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pushing the Guide button but of course
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the fun of this isn't talking so let's
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see what we can do
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headline news okay that worked out
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really well I'm going to keep bouncing
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back to the guide because I don't want
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to get into any legal issues with
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showing too much content
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that otherwise is licensed so my
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apologies for that but I don't want to
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get into too much trouble so that worked
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really well turns out you can say the
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name of any channel so for example TCM
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and it moves right to that channel so
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that's pretty sweet by itself
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we'll leave James Cagney as a g-man and
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let's see what else can we try watch The
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Simpsons so you can see it shown me the
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Simpsons it shows that it's airing today
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and it's giving me all the on-demand
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stuff so let's go back to the guide and
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let's find something that's actually on
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let's see South Park's on so let's try
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that watch South Park do I mean this yes
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South Park the TV series and see it
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shows watch now on the bottom so so
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that's cool but it should show me that
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it's on right now so you know there's
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there's a little bit of work to be done
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here let's see what else can we try we
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can say when are the Academy Awards and
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it's found the Academy Awards in the
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guide so if I choose it it now shows me
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and gives me the ability to record it so
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let's try something different
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record the 88th Academy Awards you can
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see the voice interface nails everything
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I say and thinks about it and it takes
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me right to here so that's not exciting
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let's try that one more time when we're
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not there record the 88th Academy Awards
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didn't quite get that home right record
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the 88th Academy Awards
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there's always something let's try one
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more time record the Academy Awards now
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okay so now it's telling me to tune in
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to watch it live but not giving me the
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record option
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hmm so it's possible that there are
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still some things that they're going to
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work on and the nice thing is is I know
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Comcast will just keep surreptitiously
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downloading updates to me and that will
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work out very nicely but what else can
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we do let's see who is Tom Cruise well
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there we go
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and let's try this okay appearing in so
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now I'm just using the remote so now
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let's see if I can find watch Top Gun I
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don't actually like the movie Top Gun
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but here it is it's on demand so for 399
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I can be watching it momentarily and and
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let's see what else we can do
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show me kids shows that's nice
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so that makes it really easy for the
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kids to work with this and what's on
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HGTV okay so you can see on the right
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now it's showing me the lineup while
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it's actually showing me what's on the
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channel I'm on which is Turner Classic
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Movies again I'm going to jump back to
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the guy just so we don't get any trouble
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here my favorite what should i watch
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so it's using a recommendation engine
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based on what I watch and probably what
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I also put on the DVR I am a huge fan of
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The Walking Dead I like mr. robot
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I have watched heroes and expanse and
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we've watched limitless
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I don't know how blind-spot got onto
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that list it's probably because you like
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this you'll also like that but these are
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all pretty good matches and I would
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imagine that if you did this you'd get
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results that we're pretty well tuned to
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how you use your Xfinity system to
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what's on tonight at 8 o'clock it's
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thinking and here we go here's what's on
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tonight at 8 o'clock and of course
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because it has the DVR it's really easy
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for us to pick something and say oh
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that's the one and then push the button
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I'm pushing the OK button on the remote
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and I can record it easily enough and of
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course you can also record a series but
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hopefully you already know how to do
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that so that is the xfinity voice remote
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it's a work in progress but it's pretty
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slick and it's definitely an improvement
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so that's all there is to it and it's
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actually pretty slick now I keep
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thinking about this as a microphone so
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I'm like holding it up and talking into
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it but my suspicion is that all you need
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to do is be able to push the button and
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talk to it so I'd like to watch
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something good on television right now
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not sure that's going to work but we'll
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see what happens anyway here's the best
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news is that Comcast is making these
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available for free so yes you heard me
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right free so if you already have an
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Xfinity box then you can go to Xfinity
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calm
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slash voice - remote here's the URL and
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you can just go ahead and sign up and I
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think it's like five bucks shipping I
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guess if you were to actually go into a
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Comcast store you can probably waive the
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shipping - but it's a much nicer remote
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even if you never use the voice
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interface it's just a nicer remote with
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a nice feel to it I think there's a lot
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more smarts in it but get the hang of it
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in worst case if you don't want to use
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the voice remote your kids will and
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they'll show you how to do it so this is
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Dave Taylor and I really need to find
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something worth watching on TV because
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done with this video stuff so thanks for
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checking it out and I'll catch you in my
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next video
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