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THE ON-SCREEN
{ XE "PROGRAM GUIDE:overview" } The most powerful features of the digital satellite receiver are
the on-screen guides. You may customize the on-screen guide to see a page of channels or program
listings to include only programs of interest to you. Other advanced features available from the on-
screen guides, such as scheduling and program information, will help plan your viewing. Continue
reading to learn the real power of the digital satellite receiver's on-screen guides. At any time you can
press the
key to display the current on-screen guide.
This digital satellite receiver offers a variety of on-screen guides. Each guide has its own design to
make finding programs of interest an easy task. These guides include the PROGRAM GUIDE
(SM.CELL), PROGRAM GUIDE (LG. CELL), TITLE GUIDE, LOGO GUIDE, and
WATCHWORD™ GUIDE.
Each guide (except WatchWord) can be filtered into smaller channel groupings, as specified in your
personalized favorite Channel Lists. You can also reduce the displayed listing by specifying a Theme
of interest, and then narrow the offerings further by specifying a type within the Theme. Additional
settings, such as Guide Times and Classes, may be specified to determine the guide content. A full
description of the filtering options can be found later in this chapter.
Some buttons contain small icons inside them, indicating their function:
A list of options will be offered. This list appears in what is referred to as a "Pop-up Menu."
A series of boxes will appear used to specify numbers and/or letters for the particular feature
associated with the button.
Choosing the Guide Style
To display on-screen guides, press the
The Guide pop-up menu
portion of the guide style name refers to the fact that there is only one line of text associated with each
program title. While this could cause the title to be cut short, it also allows for a large number of
channels to be displayed simultaneously.
GUIDES
key. Press the
guide pop-up menu. The guide menu provides buttons to access the
MAIN MENU, exit to Video, ways to narrow your search, and
Guide Style.
To choose a guide style, simply highlight the Guide Style button and
press
. A pop-up menu offering each of the guide styles will
be displayed. Highlight your selection and press the
guide will be redrawn to display your selection.
Familiarize yourself with the benefits of each guide style:
PROGRAM GUIDE (SM. CELL) - This guide style displays
several rows of channels with columns indicating the time period of
the programming. Cells occupy the main portion of the screen with
program titles in them. This layout makes it very easy to se what
programming at what time is being offered. The "SM. CELL"
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