RCA 980-04038-800 manual

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i INTRODUCTION 1 W elcome 1 Ser vice options 2 Signing up 2 Upgrades 3 Getting help 4 Getting Around 5 On-screen Keyboard 6 TV Home 7 W atching TV 9 Zooming to full-screen size 9 Changing the channel 10 Displaying program information 11 FINDING SHOWS 13 The DIRECTV Advanced Program Guide ™ 13 Customizing the Guide 15 Creating a list of favorite c[...]

INTERNET 59 E-mail 60 E-mail at a glance 60 Reading your mail 61 W riting a message 62 Correcting spelling errors 64 Using the address book 65 Cut, copy , and paste 67 W orld Wide W eb 70 W eb Home 70 Searching the W eb 71 Going directly to a W eb site 73 Favorites 75 Visiting a W eb site in Favorites 76 W atch TV while sur fing the W eb 77 Shoppin[...]

WELCOME Y our RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Ser vice provides an enhanced television ser vice that includes digital satellite TV programming from DIRECTV and Internet ser vices from W ebTV Networks, Inc. The UltimateTV ® Service gives you control over what you watch, when you watch it, and how you watch your favorite programming.[...]

UPGRADES Y our receiver is able to receive upgrades or modifications to some of its features and functions. These modifications will occur automatically , usually at times when your receiver would likely be turned off. If your receiver is on when an upgrade or modification is sent, you may experience a disruption in reception for several minutes. Y[...]

T o 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. When you see something on your screen that looks interesting, you tell your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Ser vice to take you there by using the select-and-go technique. T o [...]

The TV Home screen is your home base for all your TV -watching activities. From TV Home you can go to key features of the ser vice. 7 TV HOME A Program Guide where you can choose a show to watch or record See a list of the shows you’ve recorded and select one to watch Search for shows by title, categor y , actor , or other criteria Settings for y[...]

9 When you tune to a channel using your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Ser vice, you can view information about the program that’ s showing on that channel. Detailed program information is available at any time, at the press of a button. In this section you’ll find out how to make the most of watching DIRECTV ® programming. ZO[...]

DISPLA YING PROGRAM INFORMA TION When you change channels, the channel banner appears only briefly , so you might miss some of the information it displays. If you wish, you can display detailed information about the program you’re watching at any time. T o display infor mation about the current program: 1 While watching a program, press the INFO [...]

13 THE DIRECTV ADV ANCED PROGRAM GUIDE ™ The DIRECTV Advanced Program Guide ™ lets you see what’ s on TV and choose programs to watch or record. T o view the Advanced Program Guide ™ : From the TV Home screen, use the Arrow buttons to select Guide , then press OK . or Press the GUIDE button on your remote control or keyboard. The Advanced P[...]

CUSTOMIZING THE GUIDE Instead of scrolling through hundreds of available channels, you might want to customize the Guide to display just the channels you like to watch. T o have the Guide display a list of frequently viewed channels: 1 From TV Home, select Settings from the bottom of the screen and press OK . The Settings screen appears. 2 Select C[...]

17 The Add a Favorites List screen appears. 5 Choose one of the categories—Movies, News, etc.—to have the Guide display a preselected list of channels in that categor y . Or choose Custom List to create your own list of favorite channels. Press OK . For Custom List, the following screen appears. 6 Select a channel number and press OK to add tha[...]

2 Under the “View program guide” heading, select By favorite channels and press OK . A list of your Favorite Channels guides appears. 3 Select Set Up Favorites , then press OK . 4 In the screen that appears, select the list you wish to rename and press OK . The custom channel guide appears. 5 Select Rename List and press OK . 6 Using your wirel[...]

3 T o prevent access to movies and TV shows with cer tain ratings (X, NC-17, and so on), select Ratings , then press OK . T o prevent access to par ticular channels, select Channels , then press OK . T o set a limit on the amount that can be spent for Pay Per View programs, select Pay Per View , then press OK . Follow the on-screen instructions to [...]

23 If you know what you want to watch—either a particular show or a type of show , such as Comedies or W ester ns—you can search for it with Search TV . T o search for a program: From TV Home, select Search TV and press OK . (Alternatively , you can press the SEARCH button on your keyboard, or press MENU·OPTIONS on your remote or keyboard and [...]

25 TV reminders are messages that appear on your screen one minute before a show starts. T o set a reminder: 1 In the Guide, select a program (blue indicates that the program is on in the future) and press OK . The Program Info screen for the selected program appears. 2 Select Remind and press OK . The Remind screen appears. 3 If you’d like a one[...]

DIRECTV ® programming offers a wide selection of Pay Per View movies and events. In the Advanced Program Guide ™ , some Pay Per View programs are marked with an all-day ticket symbol: Y our Receiver must be connected to a phone line in order for you to purchase Pay Per View programming. T o order a DIRECTV ® Pay Per View program from the Guide:[...]

RECORDING A PROGRAM TO YOUR RECEIVER Y our RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Ser vice lets you record up to 35 hours of programs onto its built-in hard drive. Recording capacity varies, depending on the type of program being recorded. Once a program is recorded, you can watch it at any time, then erase it from the receiver’ s hard d[...]

2 Select Record and press OK . The following screen appears: 3 Check Record daily (or the appropriate interval for that program) if you want to record the program on a regular basis, then select Continue and press OK . or For a one-time recording, simply select Continue and press OK . The Recording Scheduled screen appears: 31 RECORDING – continu[...]

33 RECORDING A PROGRAM TO YOUR VCR 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 videotape so you can keep it in your video collection. Before you record a program to your VCR, you must make sure the VCR is properly connected to your rece[...]

4 Select Record to VCR and press OK . A red dot appears next to Record on VCR , indicating that it’ s selected. 5 Select Continue and press OK . A red dot with “V” in it appears next to the show’ s name in the Guide. The program will record to your VCR. Y ou might record a program on your receiver and decide later that you’d like to trans[...]

37 T o see infor mation about a show you’ve recorded: In the My Shows list, select the program name. Information about the program, including its duration and the date it was recorded, is displayed at the top of the screen. T o watch a recorded program: 1 Select the program in the My Shows list and press OK . 2 In the screen that appears, select [...]

Let’ s say you’re watching a ball game and the umpire makes a controversial call. With regular TV , all you can do is loudly question his eyesight and continue watching the game. But your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Ser vice lets you create your own instant replay , jumping back a few seconds and watching the play again and [...]

PLA Y T o resume watching a paused program where you left of f: Press the PLA Y button on your remote or keyboard. The program resumes playing where you left off. If you wish, you can skip the paused portion of the program and continue watching it live, in its regular time frame. T o resume watching a paused program live: 1 Press the MENU · OPTION[...]

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 it back. T o watch a program after you’ve reversed it: At any time during the reverse process, press the PLA Y button on your remote control or keyboard. The program plays back from that point[...]

45 GETTING BACK TO LIVE TV Pausing, reversing, and fast-for warding are great, but at some point you’ll want to return to watching live TV . Here’ s how . T o watch live TV : 1 Press the MENU·OPTIONS button on your remote control or keyboard. The TV Options panel appears. 2 Select Go Live and press OK . A paused program resumes playing in its [...]

47 T o view the PIP window , the main TV picture must be at full- screen size, not the small picture shown in the TV Home screen. If necessar y , select the picture in TV Home, then press OK. Now you’ll learn how to control what appears in the full-screen view and the smaller , PIP view . CONTROLLING THE PIP WINDOW The remote control’ s CH CTRL[...]

49 PUTTING THE PIP WINDOW AWAY T o make the PIP window disappear: Press the PIP button. The PIP window disappears. The PIP window also disappears when you press HOME, MY SHOWS, or GUIDE. NOTE PIP – continued T o change the channel in the full-screen view: 1 If the PIP window is selected, press the CH CTRL button. Control returns to the full-scree[...]

As the popularity of the Internet grows, more and more TV shows are creating W eb sites that give you infor mation 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 W eb sites where you can play along with contestants, and spor ts programs with W eb sites tha[...]

53 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 W eb site. T o go to a TV-related W eb site when the w is no longer displayed: 1 Press the MENU·OPTIONS button on your remote control or[...]

T o retur n to watching TV : 1 Press the MENU · OPTIONS button on your remote control or keyboard. The TV Options panel appears. 2 Select Stop Interactive and press OK . Y ou’ll retur n to watching TV . FINDING INTERACTIVE WEB SITES T o find interactive TV W eb sites: 1 From TV Home, select W eb Home and press OK to go to the W eb Home screen. ([...]

In many cases you’ll see a How T o button. Select that button and press OK to read instructions on interacting with the selected program. Some shows require you to register before you can participate. Follow the on- screen instructions to register . Now you can play along with some of your favorite TV game shows, matching wits with the contestant[...]

58 When you use the Internet features of your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Ser vice, you’ll start at a screen called W eb Home. From W eb Home you can get to e-mail, chat rooms, W eb sites, on-line shopping, news, and other Internet areas. T o get to W eb Home when you’re watching DIRECTV ® programming: From TV Home, select [...]

61 READING YOUR MAIL Y ou can tell when you have new mail by looking at the Mailbox at the top of the W eb Home screen. When a letter appears in the on-screen mailbox, you have mail. Or check the Message light on the front of the receiver . When the red light is on, you have mail. Follow these steps to read your mail: 1 From W eb Home, select Mail [...]

3 T ype the recipient’ s e-mail address, then press the RETURN key on your keyboard. If you do not have a wireless keyboard, you can use the on-screen keyboard. T o show the on-screen keyboard, press the OK button on your remote control. T o send the message to more than one person, separate the addresses with a comma. 4 Press RETURN until the bl[...]

65 USING THE ADDRESS BOOK E-mail addresses can be long, complicated, and impossible to remember . Fortunately , you don’t have to remember them. Y ou can store and retrieve e-mail addresses using your address book. W riting e-mail messages is easier if your recipient’ s address has been added to your address book. T o add an address to your add[...]

CUT , COPY , AND P ASTE Using a wireless keyboard, you can edit or add to the e-mail messages you write by using the cut, copy , and paste features. T o “cut and paste” means to remove text from one place and insert it somewhere else. Y ou can cut and paste text anywhere you can type. Y ou can’t edit a W eb page or e-mail message that was sen[...]

Moving text (cut and paste) Y ou can only move text in e-mail messages that you are writing. Here’ s how: 1 Using the Arrow keys on your keyboard, position the typing cursor before the start of the first word you want to move. 2 Hold the SHIFT key as you press one of the Arrow keys to select all of the text you want to move. Pressing the SHIFT an[...]

71 WEB HOME W eb Home is the star ting point for all of your W orld W ide W eb activities. If you are already using W eb features, press the HOME button on your remote control or keyboard. If you’re watching DIRECTV ® programming, press the TV•WEB button on your remote control or keyboard, or choose W eb Home from the TV Home screen. The W eb [...]

GOING DIRECTL Y TO A WEB SITE If you know the address of a W eb site (also known as the URL—Unifor m Resource Locator), you don’t need to search for the W eb site to find it. Y ou can simply type the address in the W eb Options panel. T o use the W eb Options panel to type in a W eb address: 1 If you are watching DIRECTV ® programming, press t[...]

75 74 F A VORITES : CREA TING A COLLECTION OF YOUR F A VORITE WEB SITES When you visit a W eb site that you like, and you realize that you are going to want to come back to the site often, you can save that W eb site in your Favorites folder . Once you have saved a W eb site in your Favorites folder , you can go back to that site simply by choosing[...]

77 76 W A TCH TV WHILE SURFING THE WEB With your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Service, not only can you see the W eb on your TV , you can see the W eb and your favorite TV shows at the same time. W atch a game on TV while you look at related sports W eb sites. W atch a movie while you do a W eb search for information about the di[...]

79 78 CREA TING YOUR OWN WEB P AGE The W ebTV ser vice not only allows you to visit W eb pages, it also lets you create and publish your own W eb site using Page Builder . Keep your friends and family up-to-date about what’ s new in your life. Post information about your pets, your hobby , your school or church groups, your children or grandchild[...]

81 80 EDITING AN EXISTING WEB P AGE Y ou can use Page Builder to make changes to any W eb page you have created. Here’ s how: 1 From W eb Home, select Community , then press OK or RETURN . 2 Select Page Builder , then press OK or RETURN . 3 Select the W eb page you want to change, then press OK or RETURN . 4 Select the part of your page that you [...]

DISCUSSION GROUPS Discussion groups are Internet bulletin boards where people post and respond to messages about specific topics. Discussion groups are public forums—anyone can read and respond to the posted message. JOINING A DISCUSSION GROUP Before you can read or post messages in a discussion group, you have to join the group. T o join a discu[...]

T o post a new message: 1 Join a discussion group using the instructions above. 2 Once you’ve chosen a group, select Post from the left side of the screen, then press OK or RETURN . This brings you to a screen where you can write your message. 3 T ype a topic in the Subject line, then press OK or RETURN . 4 T ype your message. (Y ou don’ t need[...]

87 86 4 T o enter a listed chat room, select it and press OK or RETURN . T o search for a chat room, type a topic in the search box, then press OK or RETURN . Then select a chat room from the list of search results and press OK or RETURN . Once you are in a chat room, you will see an ongoing discussion on the screen. Comments are appended to the bo[...]

See the brochure that came with your RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Ser vice for information on ser vice options, including features and pricing. Call 1-800-DIRECTV (1-800-347-3288) for additional information on DIRECTV ® programming and the UltimateTV Ser vice. Call 1-877-UL TIMA TE (1-877-858-4628) for more information on Ultima[...]

BILLING INFORMA TION AND P A YMENT OPTIONS The monthly W ebTV ser vice charge covers your use of the W ebTV ser vice. It does not cover the cost of anything you purchase online, nor charges for toll phone calls your receiver makes to connect to the W ebTV ser vice. Y ou can see your current account status, your recent charges, and payments online b[...]

UPDA TES - GETTING THE LA TEST FEA TURES W ebTV Networks is always working to improve the W ebTV ser vice. From time to time, feature updates will be offered to you at no cost when you connect to the W ebTV ser vice. T o get the latest W ebTV ser vice features, select Update Now when you see one of these notices, then press OK or RETURN . Y ou may [...]

When calling an ISP , make sure that it is compatible with the W ebTV ser vice (some ISPs might not know whether they are or not). T o be compatible with the W ebTV ser vice, the ISP must: • Provide at least one local phone number for connecting to their ser vice from your calling area with a modem speed of at least 28.8 Kbps. • Support both ?[...]

A account, viewing information about 89-95 address book 62, 65-66 Advanced Program Guide. See “DIRECTV Advanced Program Guide ™ ” All-Day Ticket symbol 12, 27 alternate audio 12 Arrow buttons or keys 5 B billing information 91 C CH CTRL button 47 CH+/CH- buttons or keys 10 channel banner 10 channels. See TV channels chat rooms 86-88 CLEAR but[...]

R ratings 21 RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Ser vice features over view 1-2 selecting items on the screen 5 ser vice options 2 upgrades 3, 93 receiver . See RCA ® -DIRECTV ™ Receiver with UltimateTV ® Ser vice recording 29-38 currently showing program 29 erasing recorded programs 38 fast-for warding when playing back 37, 43 jum[...]

TV controls 39-45 FORW ARD 37, 43 Instant Replay 42 Jump Ahead 38, 44 P AUSE 37, 40 PLA Y 37, 41 REVERSE 37, 42 SKIP 38, 44 slow motion 44 TV Home 7-8 displaying 7-8 introduction to 7-8 zooming TV picture to full-screen size 9, 13 TV Notices 7, 10 TV Options panel 45, 53 TV reminders 25-26 TV window 77 TV · WEB button 59, 70 typing using on-screen[...]