User and
Installation Guide
EVENT TIMERS
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| You try to set up an | You must enter the system | To be able to set up an event timer for the event, first enter the |
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| event timer, but the | password before you can create an | system password. |
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| recorder displays an | event timer for a locked event. |
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| ERROR message noting |
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| that the event is locked. |
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| You try to set up an | You must order a pay per view | To be able to set up an event timer for the event, first order it. |
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| event timer, but the | event before you can create an |
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| recorder displays an | event timer for it. |
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| ERROR message noting |
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| that the event is a pay |
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| per view event. |
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| You try to set up an | You have already set up the | To be able to set up a new event timer, delete one of the event |
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| event timer, but the | maximum number of event timers. | timers you previously set up. |
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| recorder displays an |
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| ERROR message giving |
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| you the option to delete |
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| a previously set up |
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| event timer. |
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| You set up an event | You may have set up a Reminder | Remember that a Reminder Event Timer only reminds you that |
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| timer, but your recorder | Event Timer but what you should | the event is about to start. An |
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| does not tune to the | have set up is an | you and tunes the recorder to the channel of the event. |
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| channel of the event, or | Timer or a VCR Event Timer. | A VCR Event Timer does all of the above and starts recording. |
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| does not record the |
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| event. |
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| You set up an event | You may have set up a timer with | Remember that a Once event timer executes only one time. A |
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| timer for an event that is | an inappropriate frequency. |
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| repeated (such as a |
| same channel at the same time. A Daily event timer does the |
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| regularly scheduled |
| same, Monday through Sunday. A Weekly event timer executes |
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| program), but the timer |
| once a week on the same channel at the same time. |
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| does not execute for a |
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| showing of the event. |
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| You set up an event | The event time may have changed | If the recorder is ON and detects an event timer conflict, it will |
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| timer, but the timer does | so that the event timer conflicted | display the Event Timer Scheduling Conflict menu. You must |
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| not execute at all. | with another event timer. | delete one of the conflicting event timers. |
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| The event time may have changed | No event timer will execute if the event time changes by more |
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| by more than | than |
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| You set up a Once event | The event time changed. | A Once event timer always executes at the actual time of the |
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| timer, but the timer |
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| executes at a different |
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| time. |
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| You stop the execution | Stopping the event timer applies | To stop all executions of a repeated event timer, you must delete |
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| of an event timer for one | only to the current showing of the | the event timer. Note that a Once event timer is automatically |
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| showing of an event that | event. | deleted when it executes. |
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| is repeated (such as a |
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| regularly scheduled |
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| program), but the timer |
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| executes for the next |
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| showing. |
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| You set up an event | There may have been a power | During recording (including ITR and EVENT TIMERS), if there |
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| timer, but your recorder | outage during recording. | is an interruption in the power supply (as caused by power |
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| stopped recording before |
| outages), recording will stop and will not resume automatically. |
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| the event finished. |
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