Dish Network 512 manual Watching One Program While Recording Another, Using Two Tuners to Record

Chapter 3

Using the System

•For All Blacked-Out Programs - If you set a timer for a program or event that is blacked out in your area, when this timer operates the receiver may display only an error or password-entry screen. If you have set an Ext Event Timer, the device will record this screen and not the blacked-out event.

Event Timer Performance when the Receiver is Off

If the receiver is OFF (in standby mode) at the time an Auto-Tune or DVR

Event Timer is scheduled to operate, then the receiver will turn itself ON.

Watching One Program While Recording Another

Using Two Tuners to Record

You can set up your dual-tuner satellite receiver to record one or even two programs while you’re also watching one that you’ve previously recorded.

1. Press GUIDE to open the Program Guide. Find a channel with a program or event that you want to watch now.

2.Press SELECT to tune to that channel and watch the program.

3.Press the RECORD button. A message will be displayed asking whether you want to record the remainder of the program. Select OK to begin recording it now.

4.Press GUIDE on the remote. Use the Program Guide to find another program or event that you want to watch now. Select that program. You are now watching one program while recording another one at the same time.

5.Press RECORD and select OK when the popup screen displays. You are now recording two programs or events at the same time.

6.Press the DVR button on your remote control. The DVR Event screen will open. You should see the two programs that are recording, indicated by the red dot next to the listings in the Program Guide.

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