DirecTV HIRD-D11, HIRD-D01 owner manual ON-SCREEN Guides, Choosing the Guide Style, Descriptions

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.

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.

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.

Descriptions

One guide option is to automatically display descriptions for highlighted program titles. The descriptions usually provide information such as actors’ names, a program synopsis, and additional rating information. Sometimes the description may be

only 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. Displaying the extra information reduces the number of channels or titles that can be displayed at 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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