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back with a streaming alert and an
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important update for sling tv users or
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anyone who's been considering sling tv
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let me show you this is the home screen
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of the updated sling tv app which has
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been rolling out to various devices over
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the past few months i'm showing you the
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display on a roku no big complaints
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about the home screen but the live guide
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that's another story in my initial
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review which i'll link to down below i
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mentioned that i thought the live guide
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made a better first impression and it
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sure does take a look here as i'm
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scrolling through the live guide you get
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a more visual representation of what's
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on and what's coming up next but in the
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process of this update sling tv removed
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some popular channel surfing features
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that its longtime users really liked
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shortly after receiving a lot of
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negative feedback sling tv restored the
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mini guide you get that by pressing down
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on your roku and you'll see the recent
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channels listed here as well as all
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channels easy access but still a lot of
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people wanted the full guide and now
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that is back too click up on your remote
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and you see the full channel guide then
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you can press the play pause button to
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back on the live guide and it looks like
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sling tv has not restored the little new
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banner that used to be featured as you
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scrolled through the live guide and
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you'd easily be able to see what is a
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of a particular show and also i don't
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see a way to quickly skip ahead in the
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live guide to a different day
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that was available with the old version
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but there are a few things i really like
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here if you want to set a recording
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directly from the live guide you can i
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just click the star button and
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automatically this episode is recording
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i can click it again to cancel the
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recording if i want to right from the
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live guide without having to go to the
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dvr section also favoriting channels is
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easier i just move to the left two
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clicks and i can favorite any channel
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that i want to and you can click on a
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logo of a network to go to a page to see
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just what's airing on that channel now
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and in the future as well as set
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recordings i've scrolled back up to the
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top of the live guide just to show you
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all the filters here's all channels but
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you also see there's options for
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alphabetical a to z as well as your
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favorites recent and then other
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categories of the live guide if you
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don't want to see the whole channel
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lineup in your guide back on the home
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screen for another update this one is
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not quite as recent but it did come
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after more feedback from its users and
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here's the browse by channel section
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where from the home screen you can just
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click over to whatever channel you're
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interested in watching
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click through and then you will see your
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options to watch now set a recording or
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see what's coming up in the future
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that's today's update good news for
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channel surfers and great job on sling
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tv for responding to all the feedback it
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got from its users and quickly making
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these changes to the app again i'm on
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roku right now hopefully these changes
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will be rolling out to other devices
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shortly too thank you for watching
