Control Live TV and Recordings

Control Live TV and Recordings

With the Explorer DVR, you control how you watch a program because, in many ways, you can treat live programs like they are recordings. The Explorer DVR lets you control how you watch a program in all of the following ways:

•Pause a live program or a recording

•Replay the last 8 seconds of a live program or a recording using instant replay

•Rewind a live program or a recording to watch a portion of it again

•Fast-forward through portions of a live program that you have rewound, or through portions of a recording that you don’t want to watch

•Slow the action of a live program or a recording to watch more closely

•Watch action frame by frame in forward or reverse

•Catch up with a live program to see what is currently being broadcast

Can’t find a key on the remote? Open the foldout on the back cover of this guide to display the illustration of the remote control.

Pause a Live Program or a Recording

1.Press Pause. The action freezes and the Status Bar appears briefly in the Pause position at the bottom of the screen. For programs that you are watching live, the Explorer DVR will remain in pause for up to 1 hour.

2.Press Pause again or press Play to resume playing the program.

Status Bar

The Status Bar appears whenever you pause, rewind, or fast-forward a live program or a recording.

For a live program, red indicates missed programming (from the time the program began until the time you tuned to the program).

For a recording, red indicates the portion of programming that was not recorded.

Green indicates

 

the portion of the

For a live program,

program that the

yellow indicates

Explorer DVR

the portion of the

has buffered

program not yet

or saved.

broadcast.

 

 

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This area represents

The name of the

The yellow pointer

For a live program,

the current status

program appears

indicates where you

the time of the

(paused in this case).

beneath the bar.

are in the program.

broadcast displays.

For a recording, the program length displays.

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