Chapter 4: Watching TV
Chapter 4: Watching TV
This chapter covers all of the things you can do with the Program Guides and other features that let you control the way you watch TV.
Specifically, it contains information on:
•Remote control overview
•Changing channels
•Adjusting the volume
•Getting help
•Getting information on the TV program you are watching
•Finding out what’s on: the Guides
•Searching for programs in the Guide
•Choosing an alternate audio format for a program
•Changing the User setting
•Pay per view programs
Remote control overview
Here is a quick review of the buttons on your DIRECTV®
Before your DIRECTV HD Receiver’s remote control can operate your TV, VCR, DVD player, or other device, you must first program the remote control to operate that device.
See Chapter 8: Programming the remote control.
POWER
Turns the device you are controlling on or off.
SET
Use this button when programming your remote control to operate your TV, VCR, DVD player, or an auxiliary device (AUX). See Chapter 8, Programming the remote control.
TV, VCR, DVD, AUX
These buttons tell your remote control which device to operate. For example, to start playing a DVD, you would press DVD, then press the Play button. These buttons work only after the remote control has been programmed.
DIRECTV
Makes the remote control operate your DIRECTV HD Receiver (e.g. to change channels, access the Guide, or get
information about a program). Your remote control does not need to be programmed to operate your DIRECTV HD
Receiver.
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