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Chapter 5

Reference

EVENT TIMERS

What’s	What’s Wrong	What You Can Do
Happening
You set an event	• Maybe you set the timer with the	Remember, a Once event timer works just one time for one program, at the
timer for a	wrong frequency.	program’s actual time. A Mon-Frievent timer works Monday through
program that	• Maybe the network changed the	Friday on the same channel at the same time, not keyed to any program.
comes on each day		A Daily event timer does the same, Monday through Sunday.
	program time.
or each week, but		A Weekly event timer works once a week on the same channel at the same
the timer is either		time, not keyed to any program.
recording the
wrong program or
sometimes misses
programs.
You set an event	Maybe the program time changed so the	If the receiver is on and finds an event timer overlap, it displays the
timer, but the	event timer overlapped another event	Event Timer Scheduling Conflict menu. You must edit or delete
timer doesn’t work	timer.	one of the overlapping event timers.
at all.
You set a Once	The program time changed.	A Once event timer always works at the program’s actual time.
event timer, but
the timer doesn’t
work at the time
you expect.
You stop an	When you stop a repeated event timer,	To stop all actions of a repeated event timer, you must delete the event timer.
event timer for one	this applies only to the timer’s action right	Note: The receiver deletes a Once event timer right after it works.
showing of a	then.
program that
comes on each day
or each week, but
the timer works
for the next
showing.
You test a VCR	• Maybe you didn’t turn on the VCR,	• Make sure you turn on the VCR and put a rewound tape in. Make sure
code to see if the	maybe you didn’t put a tape in, maybe	the write-protect tab is on the tape so that recording is permitted.
receiver controls a	you didn’t rewind the tape, or maybe	• Try another VCR code from the table.
VCR. The VCR	you took the write-protect tab off the
doesn’t do the test.	tape.
	• Maybe the code you’re testing doesn’t
	work for the VCR.

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