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Watching TV
Tuning to a channel with the Guide
To tune to a program or channel listed in the Guide:
1 Highlight the program or channel you want to watch.
2 Press the SELECT button. The Guide disappears, and the channel you selected fills the screen.
Searching for programs
You can search the entire list of programs stored in your DIRECTV Receiver’s program guide to find exactly the program you wish to see. There are four ways to search the Guide:
By Credits: Lets you find programs that match the actor, director, role, award, or year you type using an
By Title: Lets you find programs that match the program title you type using an
By Text: Lets you find programs for which either the credits or the title match the search term you type using an
By Category: Lets you find programs that match the program categories and subcategories you select from an
These search techniques are described in the sections that follow.
3 CHAPTER 3
Watching TV
Searching by Credits, Title, or Text
To find programs that star a certain actor, share a director, have a particular character, have won a specific award, or were created in a certain year, search By Credits.
To search for a program whose title you know, search by title. Searching by text looks at both credits and titles to find programs that match your search terms.
While viewing the Guide, press the ACTIVE button on your
1 remote control. A search list appears, allowing you to choose a type of search.
Highlight By Credits, By Title, or By Text, then press the
2 SELECT button. The search screen you selected appears. If you chose to search By Credits, the screen allows you to select a type of credit to search by. Highlight one of the five Credit types (Actor, Director, Role, Award,or Year), and press the SELECT button.
Highlight the first letter in the word you wish to search for, then press the SELECT button.
3 To erase a letter, highlight the
To clear the entire entry, highlight the
Continue to select letters from the
4 term. As you enter letters, an
To execute the search you can either highlight the
5 SELECT button, or you can highlight an item from the
To see a list of show times for one of the search results, highlight that program,
6 then press the SELECT button.
To see information about one of the search results, highlight that program, then press the
7 INFO button.
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