TiVo Series2TM manual Remote Control Tips

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Customize Your TiVo® Remote

Some buttons on your TiVo remote are programmable:

TV POWER

TV INPUT

VOLUME & MUTE (can control sound on your TV or A/V receiver)

DVR SWITCH (useful if you have more than one TiVo DVR)

 

 

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Remote Control Tips

Program your TiVo remote to control your TV or A/V receiver. See Customize Your TiVo Remote to the left.

Press the TiVo button once to go to the TiVo Central® screen, or twice to go to the Now Playing List—your list of recorded programs.

Press LIVE TV to switch between tuners. See page 3 for more about watching live TV with dual tuner.

Press FORWARD and BACK up to 3 times for 3 speeds. Press a fourth time to resume normal play.

INSTANT REPLAY ® replays the last 8 seconds of a program.

Press CLEAR to delete a title in a list (like the Now Playing list) or to hide things that aren’t part of the program you’re watching (like the TiVo

TiVo Button

Arrow Buttons

TV Power

TV Input

Window*

Select

Thumbs Down

Mute

Volume

Play

 

 

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Live TV

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Thumbs Up

Chan (Page) Up/Down

Record

To program your remote, press the TiVo

button to go to TiVo Central® and select

Play

 

 

Messages & Settings, then Settings, then

 

 

Remote Control. Follow the easy on-screen

 

 

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See Chapter 5 of this guide for more on

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programming the remote.

channel banner).

INFO brings up the TiVo channel banner. Press the RIGHT arrow

to switch among three versions of the banner, each with a different amount of information.

Press GUIDE to see the TiVo program guide, then press INFO (while the guide is visible) to see Guide Options and change the way channels display, or show only a certain types of programs.

Pause

Back (rewind)

Slow

Instant Replay

Play

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Advance

DVR Switch

Inserting Batteries into the Remote Control

Hold the remote with the battery door facing you. Slide the door towards you to open it.

CHAN UP/DOWN does more than change the channel—it also pages up or down through lists of programs or menu items.

When you’re watching “behind” live TV (for example, if you pause live TV and

later resume watching from the paused spot), ADVANCE ® catches you up to the live broadcast. In a recorded program, press it once to jump

Number Buttons

Clear

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Insert two AA batteries (supplied). Match the + and - marks on the batteries to the + and - marks in the compartment.

Replace the battery door.

to the end of the program, then again to jump to the beginning.

If programmed, the DVR Switch lets you control two different TiVo® Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) with the same remote. See Chapter 5 of this guide for more on programming the remote.

*Window button: not

active; functionality may

be added in a future

TiVo service update.

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