Manage Programs and Recordings

Manage Programs and Recordings

You can manage programs and recordings in the following ways:

•Keep others from watching a program or recording by using the Parental Control and Block features

•Maximize your storage space

•Copy recordings to a VCR tape

•Change the default Save Time for future recordings

•Change the Save Time of a recording that you have saved

•Erase a recording

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.

Block Programs With Parental Control

You can prevent children or anyone else from watching specific programs by using both the Block and the Parental Control features:

•First, select programs you want to block. (For details, see “Selecting Programs To Be Blocked” next in this section.)

•Then, turn blocking on by turning on the Parental Control feature. (For details, see “Turning Parental Control On and Off” on page 35.) When programs are blocked in this manner, they can be watched only after entering a 4-digit personal identification number (PIN).

Selecting Programs To Be Blocked

You can select programs to block by channel, rating, time of day, or any combination of these methods as described in the following steps:

Note: Even if you have blocked programming by channel, rating, or time or day, you can record the blocked programming. However, the Explorer DVR blocks the playback of the recording so that it is played back only after you have entered a valid Parental Control personal indentification number (PIN).

1.Press Settings twice. The General Settings menu appears.

2.Press Move Up or Move Down to highlight one of the following options:

•Block:Channels blocks all programs on a specific channel.

•Block:Rating blocks all programs according to the rating assigned to the program, such as G, PG, PG-13, or R.

•Block:Time New blocks all programs broadcast during a specific time.

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