5 CHAPTER 5 User profiles
Chapter 5: User profiles
This chapter tells you how to modify and select user profiles. Its contents include:
User profiles basics
Editing user profile names
Editing channel lists
Setting ratings limits
Allowing or blocking pay per view purchases
Setting a pay per view spending limit
Setting the screen color and translucency
Setting the current user profile
Locking and unlocking your DIRECTV® System
User profile basics
If your DIRECTV® Receiver is going to be used by more than one person in your household, you should consider setting up user profiles for each user.
The Profiles section of the Menu system allows you to:
•Set ratings limits for the DIRECTV® Receiver (applies to all users).
•Set pay per view spending limits for the DIRECTV® Receiver (applies to all users).
•Edit channel lists for the DIRECTV System, and customized lists for individual users.
•Change the color and translucency of the Menu and Guide screens for each user profile.
•Set which user profile is currently active.
•Lock and unlock the system (controlling when the ratings limits, spending limits, and channel restrictions are active).
There are five user profiles you can choose:
Family: | The Family user profile is the master profile for your DIRECTV® Receiver. |
| The ratings limits, channel restrictions, and pay per view spending |
| restrictions you set in the Family profile apply to all of the user profiles. |
User 1 - User 4: | These four user profiles allow individuals in your household to create |
| custom channel lists and custom screen appearances for their own use. |
| These profiles can be renamed to identify them with members of your |
| household. |
| Ratings, spending, and channel restrictions set in the Family profile still |
| apply when one of these four user profiles is the active profile and the |
| system is locked. |
All Channels: | You can change the Screen color or Translucency in the preferences |
| of the set up menu. |
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User profiles
Editing user profile names
The four profiles named User 1 - 4 can be renamed for members of your household. The Family and All Channels profiles cannot be renamed. You can change the names of User 1 - 4 profiles to anything you wish, using up to eight letters and numbers.
Press the MENU button on your remote control. The Main menu
1 appears.
Highlight the PROFILES menu item, then press the SELECT
2 button. The PROFILES menu appears.
Highlight the profile you wish to rename, then press the
3 SELECT button.
The menu for that user profile appears. The Edit User Name item is highlighted.
Press the SELECT button to start editing the user name for
4 that profile.
The Edit User Name screen appears.
5 Type a new name for the user profile as described below: 
To type each letter or number in the new name, highlight a key on the
If you need to erase a letter or two, highlight the
To erase the entire name, highlight the
When you have finished typing the user profile name, highlight the
6 then press the SELECT button.
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