Using the Program Guides

Using the GUIDE Button

 

Each press of the GUIDE button on the remote control takes you to an alternate type of TV

 

or DIRECTV® programming guide: Detail Guide, SurfGuide(DIRECTV only), or Grid

 

Guide.

 

By default, the Detail Guide appears when you press GUIDE on the remote control. You

 

can change the default guide from the Detail Guide to the Grid Guide or the SurfGuide

 

feature (DIRECTV only) using the following steps:

 

1. Select Preferences from the main menu.

 

2. Select Default Guide.

The TV Detail Guide

3. Use the arrows and OK to choose the guide you want to appear first when you press

 

GUIDE. If SurfGuide is selected as the default guide, Grid Guide will appear when you

 

access the TV program guide since the SurfGuide feature isn’t available as a TV

 

program guide.

 

The Detail Guide

 

The Detail Guide shows five channels in a time-and-channel format, with program

The SurfGuide feature

information for the highlighted program (if available) at the top of the guide.

 

The SurfGuide(DIRECTV only)

 

The SurfGuide feature displays seven DIRECTV® channels in a half-hour time-and-channel

 

format, if you subscribe to DIRECTV® programming. The full name of the program and its

 

rating are listed at the bottom of the screen. Press the right arrow button to extend the

 

SurfGuide to show two hours of programming.

 

 

The TV Grid Guide

The Grid Guide

 

The Grid Guide shows seven channels in a time-and-channel format, with the full title of

 

the highlighted program at the top of the guide.

 

The Other Guides Icon

 

The Other Guides icon at the bottom of the TV and DIRECTV® programming guides lets

 

you sort the guides by different variables, such as by channels, data, channel lists, and

 

channel groups. You can access these guides by highlighting then selecting the Other

Other Guides icon

Guides icon at the bottom of the Detail Guide and Grid Guide.

 

Channel Guide Displays a channel’s DIRECTV® or TV programming schedule in a

 

channel-by-channel format. You may also directly enter channel numbers and press

 

OK to go to another channel’s listing.

 

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