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About this guide
An independent reference publication describing how code sign-ins on televisions work, who produces it, and what it deliberately is not.
Who produces it
TV Activation Reference is written and published by Swati Kumari, based in Howrah, India. It is an independent publication: no streaming service, television maker, platform operator or television provider has any part in it, pays for it, reviews it or endorses it.
The subject is narrow on purpose. The site describes one mechanism — the short code and short address a television prints when an app needs a sign-in it cannot take itself — and records, service by service, what the printed address opens and asks for. It exists because that mechanism is widely misunderstood and widely imitated, and because the imitations are aimed at people who are new to streaming devices.
What it is not
The site is not a place to enter a code, sign in to anything, or have anything done on a reader’s behalf. It has no telephone line, no chat with a person, no forms that take account details and no software to put on a computer. It does not answer questions about individual accounts, devices or codes, and it does not act as an intermediary with any service. A code is entered only at the address printed on the screen that produced it.
How the entries are written
Each entry describes what a service’s own pages say and, where the printed address answered from a browser, what the page itself shows. The date on which each address was opened appears on the entry, and the service’s own pages are linked at its foot so that a reader can check the description against the source. Where a service does not state something — the length of its code, for instance — the entry says so rather than guessing. The screens drawn on the site are schematics with sample codes; none reproduces a service’s design.
Entries are revised when a service changes its address, its page or its name, and the revision date on each page moves only when that page’s text changes.
Names and marks
Roku, YouTube, Prime Video, Fire TV, Netflix, Apple TV, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+ and the other names on this site are the trademarks of their owners. They appear here only to identify the products and services being described, in the way a newspaper names them, and their appearance implies no connection between those owners and this publication.
Reaching the publication
Corrections and editorial correspondence are welcome at the address on the contact page. Postal correspondence reaches the publisher at VIDYASAGAR PALLY, PO: Podhra, Howrah, West Bengal - 711109.