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Digital Video Users Guide
THE FUTURE
NOW SHOWING

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  • Page 1 Digital Video Users Guide THE FUTURE NOW SHOWING...
  • Page 2 – anything you can imagine is there. Watch when you want – with features like auto tune, video on demand and digital video recording. Watch how you want – DVD quality video and sound. So sit back, relax and enjoy the future.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Remote Control Remote Control Layout page 1 Remote Control Basics page 2 How To Use This Book Layout page 4 Color-codes and Icons page 4 The InfoBar InfoBar Layout page 5 Introducing The InfoBar page 6 Go To The InfoBar Using The InfoBar page 6 Exit The InfoBar...
  • Page 4 Table of Contents Rentals Introducing Rentals and VOD (Video On Demand) page 20 Go To Rentals Browse Rentals Watch A Rentals Trailer page 21 Rent A VOD Rental page 22 Watch Your VOD Rental page 23 Controlling VOD Rentals page 23 Introducing PVR page 25 The PVR Menu Quick Reference...
  • Page 5 Table of Contents Go To PPV Events Add or Remove Reminders for PPV Events page 34 Introducing Sports Subscriptions page 35 Go To Sports Subscriptions Introducing Reminders page 35 Go To Reminders Cancel A Reminder or Auto Tune page 36 Introducing Messages page 36 Go To Messages...
  • Page 6 Table of Contents Create or Edit A Favorites List page 48 Delete A Favorites List page 50 Add or Remove A Single Channel To Favorites page 50 While Watching TV Add or Remove A Single Channel To Favorites page 50 From Other Screens Search Introducing Search...

  • Page 7: Remote Control Layout

    Remote Control Layout Power Send commands to Turn your set top the set top box box or TV on and off. LAST CH Tune to the previous channel. Send commands to the TV. MUTE Turn sound on or off. Number Pad Enter a channel VOL +/- number or PIN.

  • Page 8: Remote Control Basics

    Remote Control Basics Tell your remote to control your set top box or your TV The device selection buttons tell your remote whether you want to control your set top box or your television. To control your set top box, press the button.
  • Page 9 Remote Control Basics Adjust Volume VOL+/- button will adjust the volume gradually. button will toggle the sound on and off. MUTE System Buttons There are a number of buttons on your remote that display different fea- tures of your service. displays the MenuBar.

  • Page 10: How To Use This Book

    How To Use This Book Layout Instructions are paired with screen shots to illustrate the process and pro- vide confirmation of what you should see on your TV. On-screen text, such as screen titles, messages and options are shown in Deep Blue Bold Type.

  • Page 11: Infobar Layout

    InfoBar Layout Channel Name and Number The name and number of the channel currently listed in the InfoBar. Current Time Favorite List Currently In Use Program Name Program Start Time, End Time and Rating Includes original release date in Detailed View. Program Synopsis Additional Program Details This area will indicate details such as if this program is Live TV,...

  • Page 12: Introducing The Infobar

    The InfoBar Introducing The InfoBar The InfoBar is the most basic way of finding information about the show you are watching, as well as finding out what comes on later and what is on other channels. Go To The InfoBar There are three ways to make the basic InfoBar appear.
  • Page 13 The InfoBar Step 2a: See What’s On Other Channels Press the up or down direction buttons to scroll the InfoBar through what is show- ing on other chan- nels without actually changing channels. If you find something you would rather watch on another channel, press tune to that channel.

  • Page 14: Exit The Infobar

    The InfoBar Press to display options to set a reminder, auto tune or recording (if your set top box supports PVR). For more information on setting reminders, auto tunes and record- ings, see page 13. Exit The InfoBar The InfoBar will go away on its own after a few seconds of inactivity, or… Press on your remote control.

  • Page 15: The Menubar

    The Menu Bar Introducing The MenuBar The MenuBar is a quick and easy way to access any feature of your ser- vice. Go To The MenuBar To display the MenuBar, press Menu on your remote control. Understand The MenuBar Guide will bring up the program guide.
  • Page 16 The Menu Bar allows you to temporarily disable or enable Parental Controls all parental controls. For information on Parental Controls, see page 38. Settings offers access to creating parental controls and setting blocked channels, determining how things appear on screen, creating sub user accounts, reviewing packages offered by your service provider, and reviewing your billing information.

  • Page 17: Guide Layout

    Guide Layout Favorite List Indicates the favorite list currently in use. When you switch users, Guide’s channel lineup will change to reflect that user’s preferences. Info Area Provides information about the currently highlighted program, including start and end time, rating and a description. Below that is the current time and icons indicating closed captions, Dolby®...

  • Page 18: Introducing Guide

    Guide Introducing Guide Guide is the place to quickly find out what’s on now and what’s playing later. You can set reminders or recordings for upcoming programs in Guide. Go To Guide There are two ways to go to Guide. Press , or…...

  • Page 19: Set A Reminder, Auto Tune Or Recording

    Guide when the program is about to start. A Recording will automatically record the program using PVR. Note: Your set top box must support PVR to use the Record event. Set A Reminder, Auto Tune or Recording Step 1: Pick A Program Find the program you don’t want to miss.
  • Page 20 Guide Step 4a: Your Reminder A few minutes before your program comes on, a box will appear on your screen telling you you have a reminder. Press INFO to display the reminder. Highlight the button showing the program name and press tune to that program, or highlight Cancel...

  • Page 21: Set A Multi-Reminder, Multi-Auto Tune Or Multi

    Guide Set A Multi-Reminder, Multi-Auto Tune or Multi-Recording A scheduled event that repeats is a “multi-” event. For example, if you always watch “Friends” every weeknight at 7:00 PM and want to be reminded each time it comes on, create a multi-reminder. Step 1: Pick A Program Find the program you don’t want to miss.

  • Page 22: Cancel An Auto Tune, Reminder Or Recording

    Guide Step 3: Set The Event Type Highlight the box next to Type: and press OK. The highlight will become up and down arrows. Press until you see up and down direction buttons the event type you want, then press OK. Step 4: Set Event Frequency Highlight the box next to and press OK.

  • Page 23: Guide And Favorites Lists

    Guide Step 2: Cancel the Scheduled Event Highlight (depending on the type of event you are cancelling) and press Step 3: Return to Guide After you press OK, you will be returned to Guide. The program listing will no longer display the event icon. For more information on cancelling events, see Vault page 36.

  • Page 24: Guide And Pay Per View

    Guide & Pay Per View Introducing Pay Per View Pay Per View allows you to watch exclusive sporting events and other con- tent in the privacy of your home with no long lines, big crowds, expensive concessions and seats in the “nose bleed” section. Go To Pay Per View Pay Per View channels are listed in Guide in red.
  • Page 25 Guide & Pay Per View If you want to allow any other user accounts to be able to watch this Pay Per View, highlight the checkbox next to Share PPV and press OK. For more information on user accounts, see Settings pg 45. Finally, highlight the button and press OK.

  • Page 26: Rentals

    Rentals Introducing Rentals and VOD (Video On Demand) Rentals provides access to VOD (Video On Demand) movies and pro- grams. It’s like renting from the local video rental store, only better. You can choose from the most recent movies and older favorites, along with favorite TV shows, music videos and local programming (depending on what your service provider offers).

  • Page 27: Watch A Rentals Trailer

    Rentals If you want to go back and pick a different main category, high- light the green tab above the sub- categories and press to return to the main categories. Step 3: Browse The Rentals When you choose a sub-category, a list of all available VOD Rentals for that category are shown to...

  • Page 28: Rent A Vod Rental

    Rentals Step 2: Play The Trailer If a trailer is available for the VOD Rental you have selected, highlight Play Trailer and press OK. If the Play Trailer option is not shown, there is no trailer available for this VOD Rental.

  • Page 29: Watch Your Vod Rental

    Rentals Highlight the text box next to and enter Enter PIN your PIN. For more information on PINs, see Settings page 45. Highlight and press to confirm your VOD Rent Rental, or highlight Cancel and press if you changed your mind. Watch Your VOD Rental Once you have completed the Rental process, you will want to watch your VOD Rental.
  • Page 30 Rentals Press Pause to halt playback at the current point. Press to reverse playback from the current point. Each time Rewind you press Rewind, the rewind speed accelerates from 2x - 4x - 10x - 25x (normal Play speed is 1x). Press to advance playback from the current point.

  • Page 31: Pvr

    Introducing PVR PVR stands for Personal Video Recording (sometimes called DVR or Digital Video Recording). PVR allows you to record programs digitally without the need for tapes or discs. Your set top box can record many hours of programming, allowing you to watch at your leisure with the capability to rewind, fast forward or pause.

  • Page 32: Controlling Pvr-Recorded Programs

    Step 1: Start Recording While watching a program, press Record. Your set top box will immediately begin recording, and the InfoBar will appear with a red Record icon to the right. Once recording has started, a PVR icon will replace the Record icon on the InfoBar, indicating your are now watching a program recorded to PVR (even though it may still be recording).

  • Page 33: The Pvr Menu

    you press Rewind, the rewind speed accelerates from 2x - 4x - 10x - 25x (normal Play speed is 1x). Press to advance playback from the current point. Each Fast Fwd time you press Fast Fwd, the advance speed accelerates from 2x - 4x - 10x - 25x (normal Play speed is 1x).

  • Page 34: Go To Pvr Recordings

    Go To PVR Recordings Highlight Recordings and press OK. A list of your recorded programs will appear to the right. Recordings are listed from oldest at the top to newest at the bot- tom. Along with the program name, the length of the record- ing in minutes, and the date the recording is made are listed.

  • Page 35: Lock Or Unlock A Recording

    Lock or Unlock A Recording Locking a recording prevents the system from deleting a program to make space for new recordings. Step 1: Pick A Recording Highlight the recording you want to lock and press OK. Step 2a: Lock The Recording Highlight and press Once a program is locked, a appears to the...

  • Page 36: Review Recording Events

    Step 4: Recording Deleted Once you confirm the deletion, the entry for that recording is removed from the list. Note: Once a recording has been deleted there is no way to get it back. Please take care when deleting recordings. Review Recording Events You can easily review and cancel future recording events from To Record.

  • Page 37: Schedule A Recording, Reminder Or Auto Tune Event

    Schedule A Recording, Reminder or Auto Tune Event Once you choose Schedule Event from the PVR menu, the Schedule Event window appears. Use the same controls for each setting: Highlight the setting you want to change and press OK. Use the up or down direction buttons change the setting.

  • Page 38: Your Delete History

    Review Record History Press up and down on the remote to scroll through your record history. Go To Delete History Highlight Delete History and press OK. Review Delete History Press on the remote to scroll through your deletion history. up and down...

  • Page 39: Vault

    Vault Introducing Vault Vault stores all your purchased programming, a list of your scheduled reminder and auto-tune events, messages from your service provider, and a log of your Caller ID. Note: You must subscribe to Caller ID from your telephone company for Caller ID functions.

  • Page 40: Watch A Rental Video

    Vault Watch A Rental Video Step 1: Pick Your Video Rental Highlight your Video Rental and press OK. Step 2: Play Your Rental Highlight Play from beginning and press to start playing at the beginning of the program. If you have already watched part of the pro- gram and want to pick up where you left off, highlight and press...

  • Page 41: Introducing Sports Subscriptions

    Vault Step 2a: Set The Reminder or Auto Tune If the listing you have chosen does not already have a Reminder or Auto Tune, highlight Set Reminder Set Auto Tune and press OK. Step 2b: Cancel Reminder or Auto Tune If the listing you have chosen already has a Reminder or Auto Tune, high- light Cancel Reminder...

  • Page 42: Go To Reminders

    Vault Go To Reminders Highlight Reminders and press OK. A list of your reminders and auto tunes appears to the right. Cancel A Reminder or Auto Tune Step 1: Pick The Program Highlight the reminder or auto tune you want to cancel and press OK. Step 2: Cancel the Auto Tune or Reminder Highlight Cancel Auto Tune...

  • Page 43: Introducing Caller Id

    Vault Introducing Caller ID Caller ID offers access to a log of all calls you have received through Caller ID. You can review Caller ID entries and delete individual entries. Note: You must subscribe to Caller ID from your phone company to access this feature.

  • Page 44: Parental Controls

    Parental Controls Introducing Parental Controls Parental Controls lets you turn on and off all parental controls for your ser- vice. This allows you to let the kids watch TV without you constantly worry- ing that they may see something you feel is inappropriate, but still allow the adults to watch their programs without repeatedly entering a password.
  • Page 45 Parental Controls At the end of the time period, the system will automatically restore Parental Controls. You will see an alert on the screen just before parental controls are restored. For more information on the Unlock Timeout for Parental Controls, see Settings/Users/ Parental Control Settings page 50.

  • Page 46: Settings

    Settings Introducing Settings Settings gives you control over your video service. You can change how alerts appear on your screen, create parental controls, and block channels. You can create user accounts for members of your family, review available packages from your service provider, and review your billing information. Go To Settings Press Menu...
  • Page 47 Settings To turn PIN Verification on or off, highlight the checkbox and press OK. Enable Login Enable Login requires a user name and password to be entered before any video is available whenever the set top box is first turned on or when some- one has signed out.

  • Page 48: Save Your Preferences Settings

    Settings Parental Controls Parental Controls determines what programs are allowed to be watched based on ratings. To set Parental Controls, highlight the Configure button to the right of Parental Controls: and press OK. Note: You can also set Parental Controls from the User screen. Favorites Favorites allows you to create a set of favorite channels.

  • Page 49: Working With Parental Control Settings

    Settings tings and User Settings To go from Parental Control settings to User settings, highlight Change User settings at the bottom left of the screen and press OK. To go from User settings to Parental Control settings, highlight Change Parental Controls settings at the bottom left of the screen and press OK.

  • Page 50: Save Your Parental Control Settings

    Settings Show Info For Blocked Programs Show Info For Blocked Programs allows/blocks any information being listed in the InfoBar or Guide for any program that has been blocked for any reason. To turn Show Info For Blocked Programs on or off, highlight the checkbox and press OK.

  • Page 51: Working With User Settings

    Settings If you want to discard your changes, highlight Cancel and press OK. Working With Settings/Users/User Settings User Settings allows you to change the password and PIN for an existing user account. Note: Keep track of your password and PIN. Your service pro- vider cannot tell you your password or PIN if you forget, they can...

  • Page 52: Save Your User Settings

    Settings Save Your User Settings Once you have changed User Settings, highlight the Submit button and press OK. If you want to discard your changes, highlight Cancel and press OK. Working With Settings/Packages Packages lists your current service package(s), channel groups that make up your package or that you have added to...

  • Page 53: Working With Settings/Billing

    Settings Working With Settings/Billing Billing lists a summary of your monthly billing history. Review Your Billing If there are multiple screens of billing in- formation, highlight the left arrow or right arrow at the bottom left of your screen to the right of page x of x and press OK on your remote control.

  • Page 54: Favorites

    Favorites Introducing Favorites Favorites allows you to create, edit, choose or delete a list of your favorite channels. You can have multiple favorites lists depending on how you want to use them. When using a favorites list, only the channels in that list are shown in Guide, and when changing channels using the CH +/- button, you will be restrict- ed to only the channels in the favorites list.
  • Page 55 Favorites Step 2: Select Channels For Your Favorites List You will be presented with the Favorites create/edit screens. These screens dis- plays every channel offered by your service provider. At the top of the screen is a text box to enter a name for your favorites list.

  • Page 56: Delete A Favorites List

    Favorites Step 2: Select The Favorites List to Delete Highlight the favorites list you want to delete and press OK. Note: You will not be asked to confirm the deletion of a favorites list. Once it has been deleted it cannot be retrieved. Add or Remove a Single Channel To Favorites While Watching TV Step 1: Pick A Channel Tune to the channel you want to add or remove from a favorites list and...

  • Page 57: Search

    Search Introducing Search Search allows you to enter the name or partial name of a program or video you are looking for and have your service find any program matching the text you enter. Go To Search Press Menu and highlight Search, then press OK. Search For A Program Step 1: Enter The Program Title The highlight will be on...
  • Page 58 Search sary, highlight Done and press OK. Note: It is best to enter as little as possible when searching. Usually the first 3 or 4 letters in the name will be enough to find what you want. Step 2: Search Guide or VOD Rentals You can search Guide program listings or Video On Demand...

  • Page 59: Set Top Box Connections

    Set Top Box Connections Amino 110 Set Top Box Ethernet Coax Coax Power (from wall jack) (to TV) (from wall jack or VCR) Amino RCA Cable Adapter S/PDIF Digital Audio S-Video (to TV or VCR) (to home theater system) (to TV) Amino 500 Set Top Box S-Video S/PDIF Digital Audio...

  • Page 60: Movie Ratings

    Movie Ratings MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) Ratings System G – General Audience This is a film which contains nothing which would, in the view of the MPAA Rating Board, be offensive to parents whose younger children view the film. PG –...

  • Page 61: Tv Ratings

    TV Ratings TV Parental Guidelines Ratings System The TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board provides ratings for a pro- gram overall, and content ratings to provide a clearer idea of the reason for a program’s rating Program Ratings TV-Y – All Children This program is designed to be appropriate for all children.
  • Page 62 TV Ratings TV-MA – TV Mature Audience Only This program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults and therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17. This program contains one or more types of intense objectionable content. Content Ratings Content Ratings are shown just below the program rating.
  • Page 63 Notes...
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