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P i c k P r o g r a m s t o R e c o r d

Season Pass, Recording Options, To Do List

If some Season Pass programs are not recording, you may need to

change their priority with the Season Pass Manager. See page 53.

Your DIRECTV® HD DVR makes finding and recording programs easy—so easy that you may find more programs you enjoy than you ever expected! Your HD DVR can help with this too, by giving you simple ways to manage your recordings and make sure you watch what you want, when you want to watch it.

Season PassTM and Other Repeating Recordings

There are three types of recordings that repeat automatically:

•Season Pass. Records every episode of a series that airs on a certain channel—even if the day or time slot changes! It is totally automatic and easy to set up. Just select a program (from the DIRECTV Advanced Program GuideTM, or from search results) and choose “Get a Season Pass.” You can even set a Season Pass to record first-run programs only (no repeats!), and to keep as many, or as few, episodes as you want.

•Manual Repeating Recording. Records on a specific channel at a specific time, just as you would with a VCR. See page 61 for more information.

•Auto-recording WishListTM. Records all programs a WishList search finds. See page 67. These three types of recordings also have the following in common:

•No duplicates within 28 days. If you watch or delete a particular episode or showing, it will not be recorded automatically again for 28 days. This prevents the Now Playing List from filling up with shows you probably don’t want. If you want to record duplicates, go to Recording Options, Show Type, and select “All (with duplicates).” You can also schedule a single duplicate recording for a particular program.

There is one common exception to this “28 day rule:” if a program is deleted before you watch it, that program may be recorded again within 28 days.

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