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Tour 3: find and record your favorite programs – Philips DSR7000R/17 User Manual

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C h a p t e r 3

T h e B a s i c s i n 5 S h o r t T o u r s

Tour 3: Find and Record
Your Favorite Programs

You can always record a program you’re watching by pressing the RECORD button on
your remote control. What’s more, if you have not changed the channel for a while, your
DVR will add to your recording whatever part of the program it has already saved, up to
30 minutes. Your DVR also provides many ways to quickly search large numbers of
programs, find your favorites, and schedule recordings in advance. Even buying and
recording pay per view events is quick and easy, without any need to use a phone. What’s
more, if a program is part of a series, you can get a Season Pass

to the series. A Season

Pass records every episode of a selected program that airs on a given channel.

Search by Title

In this tour, we’ll get a Season Pass for Law & Order. Press the DIRECTV button to see
DIRECTV Central. Press the DOWN arrow to highlight Pick Programs to Record. Press
SELECT. The Pick Programs to Record screen appears. As you can see, there are many
ways to search for a program. Since you know the program’s title, highlight Search by
Title and press SELECT. The next screen lets you limit your search to any of several
categories, but for now, choose “All Programs” and press SELECT.

The next screen has a picture of an alphanumeric keypad. Notice the white box around the
“A”. Use the RIGHT, LEFT, UP, and DOWN arrows to move the box. Move it to “L” and
press SELECT. A list of programs appears on the right side of the screen. (Notice, the list
alphabetizes without “A” or “The.”) Move the white box to “A” and press SELECT again.
The list changes. Your DVR searches through all available programs (usually, data for the
next two weeks) to find those that begin with “LA,” then lists those programs. This can be
a great way to find a show if you are not sure of its full name.

If you do not see Law & Order in the

list of programs, it may be because

the DVR is still gathering Program Guide

data. A message at the bottom of the

screen will tell you how much data the DVR

has. The DVR should be done collecting

Program Guide data within 48 hours of

finishing Guided Setup.

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