Dish Network Solo 510, Solo 508, Solo 501, 112182 manual Reference

Chapter 5

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CHANNEL CHANGES

	What’s	What’s Wrong	What You Can Do
	Happening
	You enter	• Maybe you made a mistake when you	• Carefully enter the channel number you want again.
	a channel number	entered the channel number, or maybe	• Press the remote control RECALL button to go back to the previous
	you want.	the channel number you entered
			channel number.
	The channel	doesn’t work. If so, the receiver tunes
	changes,	to the channel closest to the channel
	but the new	you entered.	• To buy a channel, call the Customer Service Center
	channel isn’t	If you entered the number for a
	exactly the	channel you haven’t bought, the	at 1-800-333-DISH (3474).
	channel you	receiver tunes to the channel and gives
	entered.	you the choice to buy it.
	You’re scanning	• If you apply a Favorites List that’s not	• Press GUIDE until All Chan is the active Favorites List.
	up or down	All Chan, the receiver skips channels
	through the	that aren’t on the applied list.
	channels, and the	• If you hide adult channels and lock	• Unlock the receiver so it doesn’t skip adult channels.
	receiver skips
		the receiver, the receiver skips adult
	channels you
		channels.
	know you bought.
	The receiver	• Stray UHF signals from a nearby	• Install a 10 dB attenuator as described in Attach an Attenuator.
	changes channels	neighbor are interfering with your
	by itself.	receiver.
DISHDVR FEATURES
	What’s	What’s Wrong	What You Can Do
	Happening
	You find you can’t	• If the receiver runs out of room to auto	• To make sure you can watch all of a program, on-demand record it instead
	watch part of a	record a program, it starts to erase the	of auto recording it.
	program you’re auto	oldest part of the program to make room	• If you want to be able to watch all of a program you’re auto recording,
	recording.	for new audio and video.	don’t change the channel. You can only auto record for about one hour.
		• When you change the channel, you
		erase what’s stored in auto recording.
		• You can’t watch part of a “live”
		program that hasn’t been broadcast yet,
		because the receiver hasn’t recorded it
		yet.
	You find the	• Maybe you didn’t press the remote	• To on-demand record a program, you must either press the remote control
	receiver didn’t	control RECORD button while you	RECORD button or set an Event Timer. If you set an Event Timer to
	on-demand record	watched the program or set an Event	record the program, maybe the Event Timer was not set up right. See the
	a program.	Timer to record it.	Event Timers table for help.
		• Maybe the receiver ran out of room	• Check the “time Left” on the DishDVR Recorded Events menu.
		to on-demand record the program.	If you “protect” many recorded programs, the receiver may not have
		• You may have had a signal outage	enough room to record any new programs.
		caused by bad weather during the
		recording.
	You find the	If you don’t “protect” a recorded program,	Use the DishDVR Recorded Events menu to “protect” an on-demand
	receiver is missing	and the receiver needs room to record a new	recorded program. This means the receiver will ask you before it records over
	programs you	program, it may record over that recorded	that recorded program. But note, if you “protect” many recorded programs,
	recorded.	program to have room.	the receiver may not have enough room to record any new programs.
	When you open a	You see menu options only when they	You can use only the options you see on the menu. You won’t see all the
	recorded program’s	work. For example, the Start option	options at once. You’ll never see a “Record” option; to record a program you
	info menu, some of	doesn’t show up unless you select a	must either press the remote control RECORD button or set an Event Timer.
	the options seem to	recorded program.
	be missing.
	On-demand	On-demand recording works by program	To record more than one program, or to record parts of one or more programs,
	recording stores	unless you set a manual event timer to start	set a manual event timer.
	only one program,	and stop the recording at the times you set
	or only part of one	yourself.
	program.

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