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RCA DIRECTTV User Manual

RCA DIRECTTV User Manual

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  • Page 1 DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Service USER GUIDE 980-04088-800...
  • Page 2 © Copyright 2000 WebTV Networks, Inc. This material constitutes confidential and proprietary information of WebTV Networks, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the publisher.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Welcome Service options Signing up Upgrades Getting help Getting Around On-screen Keyboard TV Home Watching TV Zooming to full-screen size Changing the channel Displaying program information FINDING SHOWS The DIRECTV Advanced Program Guide ™ Customizing the Guide Creating a list of favorite channels Restricting Access Search TV TV Reminders...
  • Page 4 CONTENTS – CONTENTS – continued continued RECORDING INTERNET Recording a program to your receiver E-mail Recording a program to your VCR E-mail at a glance Watching Recorded Shows Reading your mail My Shows Writing a message Erasing a recorded program Correcting spelling errors Using the address book TV CONTROLS...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Using an ISP to connect to the WebTV Service two shows at once using Picture-In-Picture. In addition to letting you record shows, your RCA -DIRECTV Receiver with ®...

  • Page 6: Service Options

    INTRODUCTION – INTRODUCTION – continued continued SERVICE OPTIONS UPGRADES Your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Service lets you choose among Your receiver is able to receive upgrades or modifications to some of its features several service plans. A brochure that accompanies the receiver describes each and functions.

  • Page 7: Getting Help

    GETTING AROUND INTRODUCTION – continued GETTING HELP To get from place to place while you’re watching DIRECTV ® programming or using Internet features, you need to know just one simple rule: select-and-go. As your service continues to be upgraded, you may eventually see screens that When you see something on your screen that looks interesting, you tell your differ from those shown in this guide, or see new features that are not documented -DIRECTV...

  • Page 8: On-Screen Keyboard

    ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD TV HOME When you’re using certain TV features, you’ll need to enter information into on- The TV Home screen is your home base for all your TV-watching activities. From screen text boxes. For example, you might want to search for a TV show by title TV Home you can go to key features of the service.

  • Page 9: Watching Tv

    WATCHING TV TV HOME – continued TV Home automatically appears when you turn on your receiver. You can easily When you tune to a channel using your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Service, you can view information about the program that’s showing on that return to TV Home at any time.

  • Page 10: Changing The Channel

    WATCHING TV – WATCHING TV – continued continued CHANGING THE CHANNEL DISPLAYING PROGRAM INFORMATION You can change the channel from the TV Home screen, or while you’re watching When you change channels, the channel banner appears only briefly, so you TV at full-screen size.

  • Page 11: Finding Shows

    FINDING SHOWS WATCHING TV – continued • Channel number, network name, and call letters THE DIRECTV ADVANCED PROGRAM GUIDE ™ • Rating, if any The DIRECTV Advanced Program Guide ™ lets you see what’s on TV and choose • Time remaining until the program is over programs to watch or record.

  • Page 12: Customizing The Guide

    ADVANCED PROGRAM GUIDE – ADVANCED PROGRAM GUIDE – ™ ™ continued continued To view the listings in the Guide: CUSTOMIZING THE GUIDE Use the up and down buttons to move through the list of channels, Arrow Instead of scrolling through hundreds of available channels, you might want to one channel at a time.

  • Page 13: Creating A List Of Favorite Channels

    ADVANCED PROGRAM GUIDE – ADVANCED PROGRAM GUIDE – ™ ™ continued continued Remove the checkmarks from the channels you do not want to list in the The Add a Favorites List screen appears. Guide. To remove a checkmark, select an existing checkmark and press Use the buttons to scroll to the right, or enter a channel number using Arrow...
  • Page 14 ADVANCED PROGRAM GUIDE – ADVANCED PROGRAM GUIDE – ™ ™ continued continued A checkmark appears beside the selected channel. Add as many channels Under the “View program guide” heading, select By favorite channels as you like. (Use the buttons to scroll the screen left or right to see more Arrow press channels;...

  • Page 15: Restricting Access

    RESTRICTING ACCESS RESTRICTING ACCESS – continued If you have children, you might want to restrict their access to certain channels. To prevent access to movies and TV shows with certain ratings (X, NC-17, and You can remove those channels from the Guide, as described in “Customizing so on), select Ratings , then press...

  • Page 16: Search Tv

    SEARCH TV RESTRICTING ACCESS – continued Type a 4-digit password, then move the yellow selection box down and enter If you know what you want to watch—either a particular show or a type of show, such as Comedies or Westerns—you can search for it with Search TV. the password again to confirm it.

  • Page 17: Tv Reminders

    TV REMINDERS SEARCH TV – continued TV reminders are messages that appear on your screen one minute before a show starts. To set a reminder: In the Guide, select a program (blue indicates that the program is on in the future) and press Type a word The Program Info screen for the selected program appears.

  • Page 18: Pay Per View Programs

    PAY PER VIEW PROGRAMS TV REMINDERS – continued Check if you’d like the receiver to Tune to channel when program begins DIRECTV ® programming offers a wide selection of Pay Per View movies and automatically tune to the right channel when the program begins. events.

  • Page 19: Recording

    RECORDING PAY PER VIEW PROGRAMS – continued The purchases screen appears. RECORDING A PROGRAM TO YOUR RECEIVER Your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Service lets you record up to 35 hours of programs onto its built-in hard drive.
  • Page 20 RECORDING – RECORDING – continued continued To stop recording: Select and press Record The following screen appears: Press the button on your remote control or keyboard. STOP A message scrolls across the bottom of the screen, asking if you’d like to stop recording the program.

  • Page 21: Recording A Program To Your Vcr

    RECORDING – RECORDING – continued continued Select and press RECORDING A PROGRAM TO YOUR VCR Done The show will be recorded when it comes on. Because recorded programs will eventually be erased from your receiver’s hard drive to make room for more recordings, you might want to record a show onto SHORTCUT: If you don’t need to see the Program Info screen before you record a videotape so you can keep it in your video collection.
  • Page 22 RECORDING – RECORDING – continued continued Select and press Record to VCR In the Settings screen, select and press Hooking up The Setting Up a VCR screen appears. A red dot appears next to Record on VCR , indicating that it’s selected. Select and press Continue...

  • Page 23: Watching Recorded Shows

    MY SHOWS To see information about a show you’ve recorded: In the My Shows list, select the program name. When you record a program or a portion of a program to your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV Service, it’s saved in an area called My Shows.

  • Page 24: Erasing A Recorded Program

    To use the features described in this section, you must just watching. subscribe to DIRECTV ® programming and the UltimateTV Service. ERASING A RECORDED PROGRAM Instant Replay is only one of the TV controls offered by the RCA -DIRECTV ® ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ®...

  • Page 25: Pause

    TV CONTROLS – TV CONTROLS – continued continued PAUSE PLAY Let’s say you’re watching your favorite show and suddenly feel the need for a To resume watching a paused program where you left off: snack. You don’t need to miss anything. You can pause the program, get your Press the button on your remote or keyboard.

  • Page 26: Instant Replay

    TV CONTROLS – TV CONTROLS – continued continued INSTANT REPLAY When you press the REVERSE button, you can see the program playing in reverse. When you reach the beginning of the part you want to see again, you can play Have you ever watched a program and seen something you wished you could it back.

  • Page 27: Jump Ahead

    TV CONTROLS – TV CONTROLS – continued continued JUMP AHEAD GETTING BACK TO LIVE TV If you want to skip ahead 30 seconds at a time, you can use the Jump Ahead Pausing, reversing, and fast-forwarding are great, but at some point you’ll want to button instead of return to watching live TV.

  • Page 28: Picture-In-Picture (Pip)

    N O T E To make full use of the PIP feature, you must have two satellite Now you’ll learn how to control what appears in the full-screen view and the cables connected to the back of your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™...

  • Page 29: Switching Between Pip And Full-Screen View

    PIP – PIP – continued continued To change the channel in the full-screen view: PUTTING THE PIP WINDOW AWAY If the PIP window is selected, press the button. CH CTRL To make the PIP window disappear: Control returns to the full-screen view. Press the button.

  • Page 30: Interactive Tv

    INTERACTIVE TV As the popularity of the Internet grows, more and more TV shows are creating Web sites that give you information about their program, and in some cases let you interact with the program as it’s in progress. For example, there are game shows that have Web sites where you can play along with contestants, and sports programs with Web sites that give you play-by-play updates and analysis.

  • Page 31: Going To A Web Site

    INTERACTIVE TV – INTERACTIVE TV – continued continued GOING TO A WEB SITE The w symbol is displayed for only a few seconds, shortly after you tune to a channel, so as not to disrupt your TV viewing. If the w symbol has disappeared from your screen, you can still go to the associated Web site.

  • Page 32: Going To An Interactive Web Site

    INTERACTIVE TV – INTERACTIVE TV – continued continued GOING TO AN INTERACTIVE WEB SITE To return to watching TV: · Press the button on your remote control or keyboard. MENU OPTIONS Interactive TV is more than viewing Web sites that relate to programs or commercials. Interactive TV lets you participate with the program you’re watching.
  • Page 33 INTERACTIVE TV – INTERACTIVE TV – continued continued Select near the bottom of the screen, and press In many cases you’ll see a How To button. Select that button and press Entertainment, read instructions on interacting with the selected program. The Entertainment screen appears.

  • Page 34: Internet

    INTERNET When you use the Internet features of your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Service, you’ll start at a screen called Web Home. From Web Home you can get to e-mail, chat rooms, Web sites, on-line shopping, news, and other Internet areas.

  • Page 35: E-Mail At A Glance

    E-MAIL E-MAIL – continued E-MAIL AT A GLANCE READING YOUR MAIL You can tell when you have new mail by looking at the Mailbox When you send e-mail, you get to write messages, check your spelling, and send at the top of the Web Home screen. When a letter appears in them to anyone who has an e-mail address.

  • Page 36: Writing A Message

    E-MAIL – E-MAIL – continued continued WRITING AN E-MAIL MESSAGE Type the recipient’s e-mail address, then press the key on RETURN your keyboard. To send an e-mail message to one or more people, all you need to know is their e-mail addresses.

  • Page 37: Correcting Spelling Errors

    E-MAIL – E-MAIL – continued continued CORRECTING SPELLING ERRORS USING THE ADDRESS BOOK You can check messages for spelling and typing mistakes before you send them. E-mail addresses can be long, complicated, and impossible to remember. Fortunately, you don’t have to remember them. You can store and retrieve e-mail Select Spelling (left side of the Write a message page), then press...

  • Page 38: Cut, Copy, And Paste

    E-MAIL – E-MAIL – continued continued To address a message using your address book: CUT, COPY, AND PASTE From the Web Home screen, select , then press Mail Using a wireless keyboard, you can edit or add to the e-mail messages you write RETURN by using the cut, copy, and paste features.
  • Page 39 E-MAIL – E-MAIL – continued continued Inserting text you have copied Moving text (cut and paste) You can only insert text into an e-mail message that you are writing. Here’s how: You can only move text in e-mail messages that you are writing. Here’s how: Go to the message you are writing.

  • Page 40: World Wide Web

    WORLD WIDE WEB WORLD WIDE WEB – continued WEB HOME SEARCHING THE WEB Given the vast amount and diversity of information on the Web, you can be fairly Web Home is the starting point for all of your World Wide Web activities. certain that there is a Web site containing any kind of product or information you want to find.

  • Page 41: Going Directly To A Web Site

    WORLD WIDE WEB – WORLD WIDE WEB – continued continued Type a word, phrase, question, or Web GOING DIRECTLY TO A WEB SITE address for Search to look up, then If you know the address of a Web site (also known as the URL—Uniform Resource press RETURN Locator), you don’t need to search for the Web site to find it.
  • Page 42 WORLD WIDE WEB – WORLD WIDE WEB – continued continued FAVORITES: CREATING A COLLECTION OF YOUR FAVORITE WEB SITES T I P The wireless keyboard has a key that takes you directly to GO TO the Address panel. You can use this shortcut instead of the Web Options panel to When you visit a Web site that you like, and you realize that you are going to want go directly to a Web site.

  • Page 43: Favorites

    VISITING A WEB SITE IN YOUR FAVORITES COLLECTION WATCH TV WHILE SURFING THE WEB Once you’ve saved a shortcut to a Web site in one of your Favorites folders, it’s With your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ®...

  • Page 44: Shopping On The Web

    WORLD WIDE WEB – WORLD WIDE WEB – continued continued SHOPPING ON THE WEB CREATING YOUR OWN WEB PAGE Shopping on the World Wide Web is fast and convenient. You can find online The WebTV service not only allows you to visit Web pages, it also lets you create sources for just about any product you need, from books and music to toys, and publish your own Web site using Page Builder.

  • Page 45: Editing An Existing Web Page

    WORLD WIDE WEB – WORLD WIDE WEB – continued continued Select , then press EDITING AN EXISTING WEB PAGE Page Builder RETURN The Page Builder screen appears. You can use Page Builder to make changes to any Web page you have created. Here’s how: From Web Home, select Community...

  • Page 46: Online Conversation

    ONLINE CONVERSATION ONLINE CONVERSATION – continued DISCUSSION GROUPS AND CHAT ROOMS DISCUSSION GROUPS While chat rooms and discussion groups are both ways to use the Internet to Discussion groups are Internet bulletin boards where people post and respond to contact people, they are different in important ways. messages about specific topics.
  • Page 47 ONLINE CONVERSATION – ONLINE CONVERSATION – continued continued There are three ways to join a discussion group. You can: To post a new message: • choose one of the Featured discussions Join a discussion group using the instructions above. • choose to see the complete list of available discussions, All Groups Once you’ve chosen a group, select...

  • Page 48: Chat Rooms

    ONLINE CONVERSATION – ONLINE CONVERSATION – continued continued CHAT ROOMS To enter a listed chat room, select it and press RETURN To search for a chat room, type a topic in the search box, then press RETURN Chat rooms are forums for “live” discussions. Messages you send to a chat room Then select a chat room from the list of search results and press RETURN are read immediately by everyone in that room.
  • Page 49 YOUR ACCOUNT ONLINE CONVERSATION – continued CREATING A NEW CHAT ROOM See the brochure that came with your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Service for information on service options, including features and pricing. If you can’t find a chat room set up to discuss that topic you are interested in, or Call 1-800-DIRECTV (1-800-347-3288) for additional information on DIRECTV ®...
  • Page 50 YOUR ACCOUNT – YOUR ACCOUNT – continued continued ACCOUNT OPTIONS BILLING INFORMATION AND PAYMENT OPTIONS option on the Web Home screen provides you with a way to get detailed The monthly WebTV service charge covers your use of the WebTV service. It does Account information about the WebTV service, your billing options, and your account not cover the cost of anything you purchase online, nor charges for toll phone...
  • Page 51 YOUR ACCOUNT – YOUR ACCOUNT – continued continued ADDING USERS TO YOUR ACCOUNT UPDATES - GETTING THE LATEST FEATURES You can have up to six users on your account at no extra charge. This includes WebTV Networks is always working to improve the WebTV service. From time the user who signed up for service initially—known as the primary user—plus five to time, feature updates will be offered to you at no cost when you connect to the additional, “secondary”...
  • Page 52 YOUR ACCOUNT – YOUR ACCOUNT – continued continued USING AN ISP TO CONNECT TO THE WEBTV SERVICE When calling an ISP, make sure that it is compatible with the WebTV service (some ISPs might not know whether they are or not). Most people can connect to the WebTV service using a local phone number.
  • Page 53 INDEX account, viewing information about 89-95 e-mail 60-69 address book 62, 65-66 address book 62, 65-66 copying text 67-69 Advanced Program Guide. See “DIRECTV correcting spelling errors 64 Advanced Program Guide ™ ” reading 61 All-Day Ticket symbol 12, 27 writing 62-63 alternate audio 12 erasing recorded programs 38...
  • Page 54 37, 40 FORWARD key 37, 43 upgrades 3, 93 GOTO key 74 Pay Per View programs 27-28 Search TV screen receiver. See RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with GUIDE key 13, 18 All-Day Ticket symbol 12, 27...
  • Page 55 INDEX – continued TV controls 39-45 FORWARD 37, 43 w symbol 51 Instant Replay 42 Web Home 59, 70. See also World Wide Jump Ahead 38, 44 PAUSE 37, 40 Web Options panel 73-74 PLAY 37, 41 displaying TV window 77 REVERSE 37, 42 Web site SKIP 38, 44...

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