DirecTV HIRD-E11, HIRD-E25 owner manual ON-SCREEN Guides, Choosing the Guide Style

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The Guide pop-up menu

THE ON-SCREEN GUIDES 6

The most powerful feature of the digital satellite receiver is the on-screen guides. You may customize the on-screen guide you can see a page of channels or program listings to include only programs of interest to you. Other advanced features available from the on-screen guides, such as scheduling and program information, will help plan your viewing. Continue reading to learn the real power of the

digital satellite receiver’s on-screen guides. At any time you can press the key to display the current on-screen guide.

The on-screen guides are not accessible from the front panel keys. However, the front panel key will access the INFORMATION screen described later in this chapter if it is being pressed in

response to a message such as "Press to order."

This digital satellite receiver offers a variety of on-screen guides. Each guide has its own design to make finding programs of interest an easy task. These guides include the PROGRAM GUIDE (SM.CELL), PROGRAM GUIDE (LG. CELL), TITLE GUIDE, and LOGO GUIDE. The HIRD-E2 model digital satellite receiver also offers the WATCHWORD™ GUIDE.

Each guide can be filtered into smaller channel groupings, as specified in your personalized favorite Channel Lists. You can also reduce the displayed listing by specifying a Theme of interest, and then narrow the offerings further by specifying a type within the Theme . Additional settings, such as Guide Times and Classes, may be specified to determine the guide content. A full description of the filtering options can be found later in this chapter.

Choosing the Guide Style

To display on-screen guides, press the key. Press the key again to display or remove the guide pop-up menu. The guide menu provides buttons to access the MAIN MENU, exit to Video, ways to narrow your search, and Guide Style.

To choose a guide style, simply highlight the Guide Style button and

press . A pop-up menu offering each of the guide styles will

be displayed. Highlight your selection and press the key. The guide will be redrawn to display your selection.

Familiarize yourself with the benefits of each guide style:

PROGRAM GUIDE (SM. CELL) - This guide style displays several rows of channels with columns indicating the time period of the programming. Cells occupy the main portion of the screen with program titles in them. This layout makes it very easy to se what

programming at what time is being offered. The "SM. CELL" portion of the guide style name refers to the fact that there is only one line of text associated with each program title. While this could cause the title to be cut short, it also allows for a large number of channels to be displayed simultaneously.

PROGRAM GUIDE (LG. CELL) - This guide style, like the SM. CELL style, displays several rows of channels with columns indicating the time period of the programming. Cells occupy the main portion of the screen with program titles in them. This layout makes it very easy to see what

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