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Digital Video User's Guide
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  • Page 1 Digital Video User’s Guide FUTURE NOW SHOWING...
  • Page 2 Swiftel TV is digital TV different than anything you have seen before. It isn’t cable, it’s better. An IP-based platform delivered over fiber optics, Swiftel TV offers quality video and sound and a more interactive and personalized viewing experience. Watch what you...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents 1 Remote Control Basics Turn Your Set Top Box or TV On or Off Change Channels Adjust Volume System Buttons 2 How To Use This Book Layout Color-codes and Icons Infobar Layout 3 The Infobar Introducing The Infobar Go To The Infobar Using The Infobar Exit The Infobar...
  • Page 4 Table of Contents 6 DVR Introducing DVR Quick Recording General Guidelines About Recordings Pause Live TV (PLT) Controlling Recorded or Live TV DVR Playback Controller The DVR Menu Go To DVR The DVR Menu Quick Reference Go To Recordings Whole-Home Icon Sort Recordings Watch A Recorded Program Lock or Unlock A Recording...
  • Page 5 Table of Contents Go To Reminders Cancel A Reminder or Auto Tune Introducing Messages Go To Messages Read A Message Introducing Caller ID Go To Caller ID Delete A Caller ID Entry 8 Controls Introducing Controls Go To Controls Enable/Disable Controls Disable Controls Enable Controls 9 Settings...
  • Page 6 Table of Contents 11 Search Introducing Search Go To Search Search For A Program Movie Ratings MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) Ratings System TV Ratings TV Parental Guidelines Ratings System Program Ratings Content Ratings Digital TV User’s Guide Copyright © 2005-2010 MS Communications. IPG screen images Copyright © 2010 Minerva Networks, Inc.

  • Page 7: Remote Control Basics

    1 Remote Control Basics Turn Your Set Top Box or TV On or Off The device selection buttons tell your remote whether you want to control your set top box or your television. To turn your TV on or off, press the button then the POWER button.
  • Page 8 1 Remote Control Basics For more information about the Menubar, see section Menubar. displays the Infobar, a feature that lets you see information on what INFO you’re watching, what’s coming on next, and what’s on other channels. For more information on the Infobar, see section Infobar.

  • Page 9: How To Use This Book

    2 How To Use This Book Layout Instructions are paired with screen shots to illustrate the process and provide 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 10: Infobar Layout

    Infobar Layout Channel Name and Number The name and number of the channel currently listed in the Infobar. Current Time Program Type Indicates whether you are watching Live TV, Video on Demand, a recorded program or a Pay-Per-View program. This may also indicate if the program is Blocked because of parental controls or that the Emergency Alert System is active.

  • Page 11: The Infobar

    3 The Infobar Introducing The Infobar The Infobar is a quick way of finding information about the show you are watching, as well as what comes on later and what is on other channels. Go To The Infobar There are three ways to make the basic Infobar appear. Press INFO on your remote control.

  • Page 12: Using The Infobar

    3 The Infobar Using The Infobar Step 1: Go To The Infobar Press INFO, the Up or Down Arrow Keys, or change channels. Step 2a: See What’s On Other Channels Press the Up or Down to scroll Arrow Keys the Infobar through what is showing on other channels without actually changing...

  • Page 13: Exit The Infobar

    3 The Infobar You can combine steps 2a and 2b to see what comes on later on another channel if you like. However, if you plan to do a lot of browsing for programs on other channels or that are coming on later, it is easier to use Guide.

  • Page 14: The Menubar

    4 The Menubar Note: Parental Controls must first be set up in Settings before the Parental Controls on/off button will appear on the Menubar. Introducing The Menubar The Menubar is a quick and easy way to access any feature of your service. Go To The Menubar To display the Menubar, press MENU...
  • Page 15 4 The Menubar Note: Parental Controls will not appear until you have created parental control settings. offers access to creating parental controls and setting Settings blocked channels, determining how things appear on screen, and creating, editing and deleting user accounts. For information Settings.

  • Page 16: Guide Layout

    Guide Layout Favorite List Indicates the favorite list currently in use. Info Area Provides information about the currently highlighted program. Picture-in-Picture Allows you to watch TV while you are in Guide. Highlight Indicates what program listing is currently in focus. Program Listings Shows channel number and abbreviation and program listings for each channel.

  • Page 17: Guide

    5 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 GUIDE or Press MENU, highlight Guide, and press OK.

  • Page 18: Set A Reminder, Auto Tune Or Recording

    5 Guide Set A Reminder, Auto Tune or Recording Step 1: Pick A Program Find the program you want. Highlight its listing and press OK. Note: If you are setting a recording, highlight the listing and press RECORD instead of OK, then skip steps 2 and 3.

  • Page 19: Set A Series Recording

    5 Guide Step 4a: Your Reminder A few minutes before your program comes on, a box will appear on your screen telling you that you have a reminder. Press INFO to display the reminder. Highlight the button showing the program name and press watch the program, or highlight...

  • Page 20: Edit A Recording

    5 Guide Step 1: Pick A Program Find any episode of the series you want to record. Highlight the program listing and press OK. Step 2: Set The Recording Highlight Record Series and press OK. Step 3: Return To Guide Once you have set the series recording you will be returned to Guide.
  • Page 21 5 Guide Step 1: Pick An Upcoming Recording Locate the program to be recorded. Highlight its listing and press Step 2: Edit Recording From the options shown for this program, highlight Edit Recording and press OK. Step 3: Pad Start and End Times Use the Up and Down Arrow...

  • Page 22: Edit A Series Recording

    5 Guide Edit A Series Recording Note: Recording is not available if your set top box doesn’t support it. Once you have created a series recording, you can adjust which episodes of the series are recorded and which are skipped. Step 1: Pick A Series Recording Locate any program...

  • Page 23: Skip An Episode

    5 Guide Preference determines whether to record the program when shown in standard definition or only when shown in high definition. determines whether to record re-runs and new episodes of the Episodes series or only new episodes. Start determines how much time to add at the start and end time of the recording so that none of the program is missed.

  • Page 24: Cancel An Auto Tune, Reminder, Recording Or Series Recording

    5 Guide Cancel An Auto Tune, Reminder, Recording or Series Recording You can cancel any event you have previously scheduled directly from Guide. Step 1: Pick The Program Highlight the program with the event you want to cancel and press OK. Step 2: Cancel the Event Depending on the...

  • Page 25: Guide And Favorite Lists

    5 Guide Guide and Favorite Lists While in Guide, you can cycle through your Favorites lists by pressing GUIDE repeatedly. Each press will activate the next Favorites list. The name of the active Favorites list is shown on the green tab in the picture-in-picture area.

  • Page 26: Dvr

    6 DVR Introducing DVR DVR allows you to record programs digitally without the need for tapes or discs, as well as pause live TV. Note: If your set top box does not support Recording, please contact customer service for an upgrade. Quick Recording The fastest and easiest way to begin recording is to use the RECORD...

  • Page 27: Controlling Recorded Or Live Tv

    6 DVR have been watching and will replace it with the new channel you are now watching. The PLT bar appears whenever you pause, rewind or fast forward live TV. The center area indicates the amount of TV saved. The “I-bar”...

  • Page 28: The Dvr Menu

    6 DVR The bar in the middle gives a visual representation of where you are in the recording. The lighter section indicates how much of the recording has been played. The DVR Menu The DVR item on the Menubar provides access to previously recorded programs, upcoming recordings, prioritize series recordings, schedule an event, and view your recording history.

  • Page 29: Whole-Home Icon

    6 DVR a program is still being recorded a red dot icon will appear to the left of the program’s name. In the lower right of the info area a percentage full item is shown. This indicates the percentage of total recording space used. Whole-Home Icon The Whole-Home icon means that the recorded program can be...

  • Page 30: Lock Or Unlock A Recording

    6 DVR Step 3: Watch The Recording You will exit to your recording as it begins playing. The Infobar will appear for a few seconds with a green icon to the right to indicate you are playing a recording. While watching your recording, you can use any of the Playback Control buttons on your remote just as you would if watching a videotape or DVD.

  • Page 31: Stop A Program Currently Recording

    6 DVR Step 2: Delete The Recording Highlight press OK. Step 3: Confirm Delete Highlight and press to confirm, or if you change your mind. Step 4: Recording Deleted Once you confirm the deletion, the entry for that recording is removed from the list.

  • Page 32: Schedule Priority

    6 DVR Schedule Priority When you create series recordings for different programs it is possible that at some point there will be a conflict where two or more different programs come on at the same time. Schedule Priority allows you to pre-determine what program you want to be recorded compared to another.

  • Page 33: Schedule An Event

    6 DVR Schedule An Event Once you choose Schedule Event the Schedule Event window appears. Highlight the setting you want to change and press OK. Use the Up or Down to change Arrow Keys the setting. Press to enter your change.

  • Page 34: My Library

    7 My Library Introducing My Library My Library stores all purchased programming, a list of your scheduled reminder and auto tune events, messages about your service, and a log of your Caller ID. The My Library Menu Reminders lists all reminder and auto tune events you have created.

  • Page 35: Cancel A Reminder Or Auto Tune

    7 My Library Cancel A Reminder or Auto Tune Step 1: Pick The Program Highlight the reminder or auto tune you want to cancel and press Step 2: Cancel the Auto Tune or Reminder Highlight Cancel Auto Tune Cancel Reminder depending on the type of event you are cancelling and...

  • Page 36: Introducing Messages

    7 My Library Introducing Messages Messages allows you to view any messages about your service. Messages may inform you of promotional offers, upcoming Video on Demand events, service upgrades or billing alerts. Whenever you receive a new message an alert will appear on your screen.

  • Page 37: Introducing Caller Id

    7 My Library Introducing Caller ID Caller ID offers access to the Caller ID call log. You can review log entries and delete individual entries. Note: You must subscribe to Caller ID to access this feature. Additionally, only certain set top boxes support on-screen Caller ID. Please contact customer service for more information.

  • Page 38: Controls

    8 Controls Introducing Controls Note: Controls must first be set up in Settings before the Parental Controls on/off button will appear on the Menubar. Controls lets you turn on and off all parental controls for your service. With Parental Controls on, the kids can watch TV without you constantly worrying they may see something inappropriate.

  • Page 39: Disable Controls

    8 Controls Disable Controls Highlight the Controls icon and Press bring up the password screen (password - 0000). Use the Number Pad to enter your parental controls password. Then highlight press OK. When you disable controls, they will remain that way until you turn them back on, or the Parental Controls Time Out is reached.

  • Page 40: Settings

    9 Settings Introducing Settings Settings gives you control over your video service. You can choose to share rentals, change how alerts appear on your screen, create parental controls and block channels. You can also create accounts for members of your family. Go To Settings Press MENU...
  • Page 41 9 Settings To turn Enable Caller ID on or off, highlight the check box and press OK. Channel Blocking Channel Blocking enables or disables the list of channels you have blocked. Blocked channels do not appear in Guide. To turn Channel Blocking on or off, highlight the check box and press OK.
  • Page 42 9 Settings Any of the other settings will trigger the autotune that many seconds or minutes before the program begins. Hardware Settings For service provider only. Channel Blocking Channel Blocking Edit displays a list of all channels available. You can then block or unblock any channel.

  • Page 43: Working With Settings/Users

    9 Settings Working With Settings/Users User accounts allows you to have separate parental controls, purchase limits and themes for different family members. Users Settings allows you to add a user account, edit an existing user account, change parental controls for a user account, or delete a user account.
  • Page 44 9 Settings To set Movie Rating, highlight the option box next to Movie Rating and press OK. Use the to cycle through available ratings, then press OK. Arrow Keys Note: For more information on movie ratings, see “Movie Ratings” in the back of this book.

  • Page 45: Add A User Account

    9 Settings To discard your changes, highlight Cancel and press OK. Add A User Account To create a new user account, highlight the button and press Highlight New Login to enter the name for the new account and press OK. An on- screen keyboard appears.
  • Page 46 9 Settings Highlight Password to enter the password for the new account. Use the number pad on your remote to enter the password. Highlight Confirm Password re-enter the password for the new account. Use the number pad on your remote to re-enter the password exactly.

  • Page 47: Sign Out / Sign In

    9 Settings The second Add User Account screen allows you to create parental controls specific to this user. These parental control settings are identical to the settings shown earlier with the exception that there is no Unlock Timeout or Block Unrated setting. Once you have entered the settings for the new account, highlight Submit and press OK.

  • Page 48: Edit A User Account

    9 Settings You will then be signed out of your account, and the Sign In screen will appear. Highlight the Name entry box and press OK. Use the Up/Down arrows to select the name for the desired account. Then highlight the Password entry box and enter the password used for the...
  • Page 49 9 Settings number pad on your remote to exactly re-enter the password. Highlight and enter the account’s existing PIN. Highlight New PIN and enter a new PIN for this account. Highlight Confirm PIN to re-enter the new PIN. Highlight the check box and press Enable PIN enable or disable the need to use a PIN.

  • Page 50: 10 Favorites

    10 Favorites Introducing Favorites Favorites allows you to create, edit, choose or delete a list of your favorite channels. You can even have multiple favorites lists. Go To Favorites Press and highlight Favorites, then press OK. MENU You will be presented with a screen with options to choose, edit, create or delete a favorites list, or cancel.

  • Page 51: Delete A Favorites List

    10 Favorites Step 3: Choose Your Favorite Channels Highlight a channel to add to or remove from your favorites list and press OK. A channel included in the favorites list shows a heart icon to the right of the channel info. To go to the next screen of channels, press the Down Arrow Key.

  • Page 52: Search

    11 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.
  • Page 53 11 Search 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 Highlight Search Guide and press to have the system start searching for all programs that match...

  • Page 54: 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 55: Tv Ratings

    TV Ratings TV Parental Guidelines Ratings System The TV Parental Guidelines ratings provides program ratings, 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. TV-Y7 –...
  • Page 56 Swiftel Communications 415 4 Street • Brookings, SD 57006 Phone 605/692-6211 Assistance Options: • 24/7 Direct Support - 605/696/HELP • FAQ & User Guide - www.swiftel.net • Product Info & User Guide - Channel 30...

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