Selecting this will prompt the app to begin downloading to your TV; when it finishes, you can select OPEN to go straight to the app. Method 4. You'll need to change the input to use your Apple TV unit if you haven't yet done so. If your TV isn't connected to the Internet, you won't be able to add apps. You cannot add apps to an Apple TV if it's a 3rd generation model or older. Select the App Store and tap your remote's touch surface. The App Store is a dark-blue app with a white "A" made of writing utensils on it.
Doing this will open the App Store. If you're using your iPhone's Apple TV app, you'll first need to open it. Scroll through the App Store's apps. The App Store loads to the "Featured" page by default, where you can view popular apps. You can also scroll over to Search , tap the remote, and type in an app's name to search specifically for it. Selecting the Categories tab will show you different categories of app. Select an app you wish to download and tap the remote.
Doing so will open the app's page. If you're on the Categories tab, you'll first have to select a category. This option should be in the middle of your app's page. Your app will begin downloading to your Apple TV. For paid apps, this button will display the app's price. You may be prompted to enter your Apple ID password for paid apps. Method 5. You'll need to change the input to use your Fire Stick if you haven't yet done so. Open the sidebar. To do so, simply use the left side of your remote's circular directional dial to scroll to the left until the sidebar pops out from the left side of the screen.
It's the circular button in the middle of the directional dial. You'll find Apps about halfway down the sidebar. Select an app filter. You can scroll down to select the Spotlight tab to view featured apps, for example, or the Top Free tab to scroll through the top-rated free apps. If you just want to browse all apps, select the Categories feature and then select a category in which you're interested. Select an app and press your remote's "Select" button.
Select Get and press your remote's "Select" button. You should see Get below and to the right of the app's icon. Your selected app will begin downloading to your Amazon Fire TV. You'll see the app's price instead of Get if the app isn't free. You can't. A rep told me that what is predownloaded from the factory is all you get. Yes No. Not Helpful 3 Helpful Not Helpful 17 Helpful Not Helpful 65 Helpful It should have a built-in home button.
Click it on the controller, and it should pop the apps up. Click on them and it will take you to the download page. Not Helpful 85 Helpful No, they run completely different OS's operating systems , and can't run each others' software.
Not Helpful 10 Helpful 9. From any Home screen page of your iPhone or iPad, touch your finger to the screen and drag down to reveal the Spotlight search field.
Installing Digital Antenna. Jan 15, Jan 12, Jan 11, How to Install Unlisted Channels on a Roku device. Jan 9, Jan 8, How to Install and Use Spotify on Roku.
Jan 7, How to Install a New Channel on Roku. I have two roku's. Jan 6, Dec 26, Dec 25, Please install the AMD driver appropriate. Dec 24, Dec 17, Hopper installed and not working. Dec 11, How to install Amazon prime on my TCL led smart tv.
The TV has both a quick start guide and a manual. Both are available on the Insignia product page in PDF format. The PDFs are not tagged but the automatic tagging provided by Adobe reader provides decent access to the guide and manual including linked sections in the manual. The main problem I encountered when reading the manual and guide was diagrams tended to be jumbled. Note: the manual and guide are meant to provide instructions for the TV itself but have little information on the Fire TV operating system.
This PDF is also tagged properly for screen readers. The TV has a few more functions than a traditional Fire TV streaming device, but the majority of the interface is identical. When you first activate your TV, you will hear a series of sounds in fairly rapid succession.
Once you begin hearing a tone playing on a wide interval, you can then turn on VoiceView by holding down the Back and Menu buttons for 2 seconds. After activating VoiceView, you will be asked if you would like to listen to the VoiceView tutorial.
The tutorial contains a description of the Fire TV remote, a key describer, and a series of tips for using VoiceView. I was happy to see the remote was described in detail, but more extensive directions regarding the use of VoiceView would improve the tutorial. After the tutorial, you will need to set up the TV. All options here are accessible. During this step, you will connect to your wireless network, choose if you would like to sign into an Amazon account, set your language, and choose a few other minor settings.
Before diving into the Fire TV operating system, it is worth exploring the functions of the VoiceView screen reader. When you navigate around the interface, VoiceView will provide information on what you have currently highlighted as well as other hints and extra information. For example, when I highlight a movie or TV show, I will first be alerted to the item's name and, after a pause, navigation information for the current screen or item followed by information about the selected item such as synopsis, rating, etc.
You can also have extra information and navigation instructions repeated by pressing the Menu button. Because of this, you will need to press the Menu button twice to activate its original function.
In addition to interacting with the interface directly, VoiceView offers Review Mode which functions similarly to the browse modes you may find in a Windows screen reader. As an example, I heard an item spoken I couldn't quite understand. After turning on Review Mode I used the Right key to move to the item and, once there, cycled the granularity with the Down key until I heard "character.
Note that the granularity options that deal with HTML elements such as Heading and Link only appear when that sort of content is available on screen. Review Mode is particularly helpful if you are using one of the Web browser apps available for the Fire TV. If you have low vision, the Fire TV also includes a screen magnifier and high contrast mode.
The screen magnifier can be activated during setup by holding down the Back and Fast Forward buttons. The magnifier has 10 different magnification levels and magnifies all non-video content, including captions. New to the magnifier is an indicator that will appear when changing zoom levels, displaying where you have zoomed to on the overall screen.
When you press the Home button, you will be placed on the Home tab in this row. You can use Left and Right keys to navigate this row of tabs and the Down key to enter a tab. The Up and Down keys move you between rows while Left and Right move through items in a row. The Home tab will likely be the area on which you spend the majority of time and the first several categories there are of particular interest.
Note that some categories only appear after you take a particular action. For example, the Recent category only appears after you have watched content or opened apps. The first row when moving down from the Home tab is Featured. This is similar to a carousel you would see on a Webpage in that it cycles from item to item at a regular pace. Moving down, you will find the Recent row. This will contain a mix of content and applications you have recently opened.
Beneath Recent, you will find the Your Apps and Channels row. This will list a combination of the apps you have downloaded and the channels you have subscribed to.
There are shortcuts to download the most popular third-party apps preloaded in this list including Netflix and Sling TV. Note that a See All option appears at the end of this row of items, which will launch a grid of all of your apps and channels. Below this row you will find a sponsored advertisement followed by the On Now category.
This row will only appear after you have scanned for over-the-air channels and displays the channels that are available to you. As you focus channels, the current program will begin playing and VoiceView will inform you of what is being played as well as the percentage of the program that has currently passed.
0コメント