DirecTV HIRD-B1 manual ON-SCREEN Guides, Choosing the Guide Style

The Guide pop-up menu

THE ON-SCREEN GUIDES 6

The most powerful feature of your digital satellite receiver is the On -Screen Guides. From the on- screen guide you can see a page of channels or program listings and filter the guide to include only programs in the categories of interest to you. Other advanced features available from the on-screen guides, such as Scheduling and Information, will help you plan your viewing. Continue reading to learn the real power of your digital satellite receiver’s on-screen menus. At any time you can press the key to display the current on-screen guide.

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

Each guide can be filtered into smaller channel groupings, which you have specified in each of the Favorite Channel Lists. You can also reduce the displayed listing by specifying a category of interest, and even further narrow the offerings by specifying a type within the category. There are additional settings that you may specify to determine the guide content such as “Guide Times” and “Classes.” A full description of the filtering options can be found later in this chapter.

Choosing the Guide Style

Once any of the guides are displayed by pressing the key, the key takes on a new purpose. It is now used 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 accommodate your selection.

A variation that is available for each of the guide styles is whether or not descriptions for highlighted program titles are automatically retrieved and displayed. The descriptions usually provide information such as actors’ names, a brief synopsis, and additional rating information. Sometimes the description may be just a

message describing what type of program is highlighted, such as “Current News.”

This option is chosen via the Descriptions button on the guide pop-up menu. While displaying descriptions automatically is beneficial in evaluating your program options, it does reduce the number of channels or titles in the on-screen guide that can be displayed at any one time.

Remember that you can always access program descriptions by pressing the key, whether or not the Descriptions button is selected.

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