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You can choose not to connect a Roku TV to the Internet during the initial setup, and you just get access to live TV and the HDMI inputs with (obviously) no streaming channels or updates. It works fine as a dumb TV.

And the credit card thing? That’s after you create your account on their website, you can just close the browser window. Or click the button saying “skip” or “later” or whatever it is.

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Was helping family with setting it up, I guess I didn’t see that

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They don’t make it obvious at all, in fact they do their best to seem like you can’t

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