DirecTV HIRD-E86 manual Watchword, Guide Times, WATCHWORD Entry, General On-ScreenGuide Features

Advanced Program Guide™

Guide Times

The Guides pop-up menu provides easy access to future programming information. Simply select one of the listed times. After a few seconds, the selected guide will appear.

The Guide Times pop-up menu

WATCHWORD™

The WATCHWORD popup is used to specify up to eight different words that can be used to identify programming of interest to you. The HD receiver will search the program titles and descriptions in the guide for programs that contain matching words. These matches will be displayed when you select the RESTART button. Some matches will be displayed as soon as they are found, and others will be added as the search continues in the background.

The WATCHWORD™ setup screen

WATCHWORD™ Entry

Highlighting one of the eight choices and pressing SELECT will initiate a pop-up keyboard where you can define a search word. If “CAGNEY” and “ALIEN” were specified, the “CAGNEY” search word might find movies in which James Cagney performed, as well as the TV series “Cagney and Lacey.” The “ALIEN” search word might find the movie “Aliens,” as well as any program which includes the word “alien” in the description. Partial words work as well.

Entering the desired words is easy using the pop-up			The WATCHWORD™ Entry pop-up menu
keyboard. You can highlight the desired letter using
the , ▲, ▲, and ▲ keys. Press	SELECT	to enter the
▲

letter. Once the word is entered, choose OK.

General On-Screen Guide Features

While there are different ways the guides can appear, there are some things they have in common.

The guide name will always appear in the upper left corner. It may be something simple like “PROGRAM GUIDE.” If you have filtered the guide, it could be more descriptive such as “COMEDY MOVIES GUIDE.” (See the “Filtering the Guides” subsection later in this chapter.)

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