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1. Home Screen
1.1. Introduction
To enjoy the benefits of your Google TV, connect the TV
to the Internet. Press HOME on your remote control to
get your Home screen. Like on your Android smartphone
or tablet, the Home screen is the centre of your TV. From
the Home screen you can decide what to watch by
browsing entertainment options from app and live TV.
The Home screen is organized in rows to let you discover
great contents from your favourite apps. You can also
add additional rows or find new apps to get more
contents. Apps may populate their recommendation (if
available) according to their own choice as an individual
rows in the home screen.
Highlights on your home screen
With multiple tabs like Home, Apps, Library and Search,
you can discover movies and shows from your services
and popular apps. Sign in to your Google Account to get
personalised recommendations from your streaming
services based on what you have watched and what
interests you. You can also trigger Google search with
voice or text input in Search tab.
Apps
The Apps tab of Home screen contains all installed Apps
that come with the TV and the Apps you have installed
from Google Play™ Store. You can also install and add
more apps as favourite from the Apps tab.
Navigation
Decide what to watch next with easy-to-use navigation.
Browse your personalised recommendations, pick up
where you left off, or quickly find a certain app using the
new tab system.
Discover personalised recommendations
Browse shows and movies that you will love on all your
favourite media services. Sign in to your Google Account
to get started.
Get recommendations across Google
Your services are saved to your Google Account so you
can get better recommendations across Google.
See also www.support.google.com/googletv
1.2. Dashboard and Settings
Dashboard
The Dashboard is a side panel in Google TV that provides
access to Settings, device controls, notifications and
more.
The Dashboard can be accessed in two ways as follows:
1 - Navigating to the profile icon in the upper right of the
home screen.
2 - Pressing DASHBOARD key on the remote control.
The dashboard contains following features.
• Profile: to display current user profile icon or to add
new user profile
• Settings: to access all setting menus for adjusting the
TV settings.
• Clock and screensaver: to indicate the system clock
and press to activate screen saver immediately.
• Source: to launch the input source list for switching to
any of the connected devices.
• Picture: quick link to adjust picture settings.
• Notifications: to provide you the messages about the
Google TV system; press Clear all to dismiss all
notifications.
Adjust settings
You can access Settings menu via the dashboard at the
top right corner. Alternately, you can access Settings
menu directly from the remote control by pressing
DASHBOARD key and select Settings.
1.3. Basic Mode and Full Mode
Difference of feature
You can set your Google TV to Basic Mode or Full Mode.
Basic Mode contains only Live TV and External devices
(e.g. HDMI) features. Full Mode requires you to login
with your Google account and Internet connection. With
Full Mode, you can have all Basic Mode features and
more Google's personalised services. For example,
movies and TV shows from your favourite streaming
apps, personalised recommendations, and Google
Assistant to search and control your TV with your voice.
Difference of Home screen
The Home screen of Basic Mode has only two rows and
without tabs. The first Home row contains Live TV,
Sources and Dashboard icons for TV feature operations.
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