Sony SAT-B65, SAT-A65 manual Filtering the program guide, Category Filter

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Filtering the program guide

Press the remote control GUIDE button while in a guide. A pop-up menu provides filtering tools and ways to access other guide styles. By combining each of these filter options, you can quickly narrow down channels to those that match your viewing interests.

Using Theme Filters From the MAIN MENU, select the GUIDE OPTIONS tab. The CATEGORY FILTER menu appears, listing all available program category groups.

CATEGORY FILTER

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Theme

 

 

Times

Select a Category to filter Guide

 

Fav List

 

All

 

Fav Setup

 

 

 

Options

Movies

 

Ch. Mark

Sports

 

Exit

 

Specials

 

Return

 

 

 

 

Series

 

 

News

 

 

Shopping

 

After choosing a category (other than All), the drop-down menu is replaced by the Types pop-up menu. This menu allows you to further refine a chosen theme. In addition to All, you can select popular categories that can be quickly selected using the remote control GUIDE button.

For example, if you chose Series for the category, you can now choose a type of movie such as Children, Comedy, Cultural Arts, Drama, and others. Refer to the figure below

CATEGORY FILTER

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7:15 PM

Theme

 

 

Times

Select a Category to filter Guide

 

Fav List

 

All

 

Fav Setup

 

 

 

Options

Movies

 

Ch. Mark

Sports

 

Exit

 

Specials

 

Return

 

 

 

 

Series

 

 

News

 

 

Shopping

 

CATEGORY FILTER

 

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7:15 PM

Theme

Series

 

 

Times

Category

 

Fav List

Select a Category to filter Guide

 

All

All

 

Fav Setup

Children

All

 

Movies

 

Options

Comedy Movies

 

Ch. Mark

Cultural Arts Sports

 

Exit

Drama

Sports

 

Specials

 

Return

 

Specials

 

Educational

 

 

 

Series

 

 

Gen. InterestSeries

 

 

How-To

News

 

 

Mature

News

 

 

Shopping

 

 

Shopping

 

After selecting one of these, the guide will be further filtered to show only those channels offering programs of the selected category and type.

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