DirecTV HDTV Using the Guide Button, Other Guides Icon, Detail Guide, SurfGuide Directv only

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USING THE PROGRAM GUIDES

USING THE GUIDE BUTTON

Each press of the GUIDE button on the remote control takes you to an alternate type of TV or DIRECTV® programming guide: Detail Guide, SurfGuide (DIRECTV only), or Grid Guide.

By default, the Detail Guide appears when you press GUIDE on the remote control. You can change the default guide from the Detail Guide to the Grid Guide or SurfGuide (DIRECTV only) using the following steps:

1.Select Preferences from the main menu.

2.Select Default Guide.

3.Use the arrows and OK to choose the guide you want to appear first when you press GUIDE. If SurfGuide is selected as the default guide, the Grid Guide will appear when you access the TV program guide, since SurfGuide isn’t available as a TV program guide.

The Detail Guide

The Detail Guide shows five channels in a time-and-channel format, with program information for the highlighted program at the top of the guide.

The TV Detail Guide

The DIRECTV SurfGuide

The SurfGuide (DIRECTV only)

The SurfGuide displays seven DIRECTV channels in a half-hour time-and-channel format, if you subscribe to DIRECTV® programming. The full name of the program and its rating are listed at the bottom of the screen. Press the right arrow button to extend the SurfGuide to show the next two hours.

The Grid Guide

The TV Grid Guide

The Grid Guide shows seven channels in a time-and-channel format, with the full title of the highlighted program at the top of the guide.

THE OTHER GUIDES ICON

The Other Guides icon at the bottom of the TV guide and DIRECTV® program guides

Other Guides icon

lets you sort the guides by different variables, such as by channels, data, channel lists,

 

and channel groups. You can access these guides by highlighting then selecting the

 

Other Guides icon at the bottom of the Detail Guide and Grid Guide.

 

Channel Guide Displays a channel’s DIRECTV® or TV programming schedule in a channel-by-channel format.

Channel Guide lets you see what programs are on a specific channel.

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