RCA DTC210 user manual Searching by Credits, Title, or Text, Searching by Category

Special Features

Searching by Credits, Title, or Text

To find programs that star a certain actor, share a director, have a particular character, have won a specific award, or were created in a certain year, search By Credits. To search for a program whose title you know, search By Title. Searching By Text looks at both credits and titles to find programs that match your search terms.

1.While viewing the guide, press the D button (SEARCH) on your remote control. A search list appears, allowing you to choose a type of search.

2.Highlight By Credits, By Title, or By Text, then press SELECT. The search screen you selected appears. If you chose to search By Credits, the screen allows you to select a type of credit to search by. Highlight one of the five Credit types (Actor, Director, Role, Award, or Year), and press SELECT.

3.Highlight the first letter in the word you wish to search for, then press SELECT. To erase a letter, highlight the on-screen left arrow and press SELECT. To clear the entire entry, highlight Exit and press SELECT.

4.Continue to select letters from the on-screen keyboard until you have completed your search term. As you enter letters, an on-screen list shows you matches for the text you have entered so far.

5.To start searching, you can either highlight Search and press SELECT, or you can highlight an item from the on-screen list and press SELECT. A list of programs related to your search terms appears.

6.To see a list of show times for a search results, highlight that program, then press SELECT.

7.To see information about a search result, highlight that program, then press the INFO button.

Searching by Category

Searching by category narrows down the list of programs by sorting program categories and sub-categories.

1.While viewing the guide, press the D button (SEARCH) on your remote control. A search list appears, allowing you to choose a type of search.

2.Highlight By Category, then press SELECT (the Search By Category screen appears—categories that contain sub-categories have a page icon to the right of the category name).

3.Highlight a category, then press SELECT.

If you select a category that contains sub-categories, the subcategory list appears. Continue to narrow your search by selecting from the sub-category list until there are no more sub-categories.

If you select a category that contains no sub-categories, the search results appear displaying the programs in the category you selected.

To return to a previous category list, highlight Back and press SELECT.

4.To see a list of show times for a search result, highlight that program, then press SELECT.

5.To see information about a search result, highlight that program, then press the INFO button.

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