Using the Programme Guide, Using Your DTR

Using the Programme Guide

Your DTR has access to two programme guides. Initially your DTR will provide the standard Freeview 7 day Programme Guide, but as soon as your DTR has acquired the Top Up TV on-screen programming guide, you will have access to 14 day listings. The Programme Guide screen gives you a fast way of planning your viewing and recording. To access this guide, press the GUIDE button.

Using Your DTR

The guide shows the next three periods of 30 minutes, for each channel. While in the Programme Guide, you can navigate around using the arrow buttons. UP / DOWN arrows will move between channels, while the LEFT and RIGHT arrows move in time. The Guide is split into three sections of 30 minutes each. The information contained in a time segment usually shows the name of the programme. This is only the case when the programme takes up the whole of that 30 minute time slot. As programmes can be longer or shorter than 30 minutes, the Programme Guide has been constructed to inform you of this.

Ifaprogrammeislongerthan30 minutesthenexttimeslotshows threedotstoindicatethatthe programme runs in to the next slot. If a programme is shorter that 30 minutes the programme name is followed by an arrow to indicate that more than one programme exists in that slot.

If a programme does not start exactly on the time boundary, it will have two dots in front of the programme name to indicate that it starts later than the time shown in the column heading.

If you leave the highlighter box over a programme for more than five seconds, a box will appear showing a synopsis of the programme. It also shows the start and end times for that programme in the top right-hand corner.