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    C HAPTER 7 Features of TiVo Plus TM Service Introduction 92 Season Pass, Recording Options, To Do List 93 Find Your Favorite Programs 98 Find Programs That Match Your Interests 103 Finding New Programs 108 Sorting & Grouping Programs 109 Save to VCR 110[...]

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    92 Chapter 7 Features of TiVo Plus Service Introduction TiVo Plus TM is the service level that you’ve heard everyon e talking about—the service level that features smart, auto matic recording, but is still easy to use. This chapter gives you a full description of all of the features you’ll enjoy when you upgrade to TiVo Plus service, includin[...]

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    93 7 Season Pass, Rec ording Options, To Do Li st Season Pass, Recording Options, To Do List The TiVo Plus TM service gives you smart recording capabilities that can detect when a program’s date or time slot has changed, can find the same program across multiple channels, and can even tell first run programs from repeats. In addition, with TiVo P[...]

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    94 Chapter 7 Features of TiVo Plus Service • Keep at Most. By default, five episodes of a repeating recording program are kept in Now Playing. You can change this setting; see page 95. • Resolving conflicts. The TiVo service resolves scheduling conflicts between repeating record ings by co mparing recording priorities. You can change recording [...]

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    95 7 Season Pass, Rec ording Options, To Do Li st Reco rdin g O pt ion s include: Record Quality. The choices for Recording Qualit y are Basic, Medium, High, and Best. The default setting is High. (Best looks great, but keep in mind that it takes up more space.) These settings ar e described on page 74. (Thi s option is not available once a recordi[...]

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    96 Chapter 7 Features of TiVo Plus Service Season P ass Manager Say you have a Season Pass to ER and an auto-recording WishLi st for movies with Julia Roberts. What if a Julia Roberts movie happens to air at the same time as ER ? The DVR will check the priorities in the Season Pass Ma nager to decide which pr ogram to reco rd. If the Julia Roberts [...]

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    97 7 Season Pass, Rec ording Options, To Do Li st Impro ved T o Do List With TiVo Plus, the To Do List still has Recording History and lists all scheduled recordings in one place. You can also use it to change Recording Options (even for individual episodes of a repeating recording), and you can use “View upco ming” to look for alternate showin[...]

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    98 Chapter 7 Features of TiVo Plus Service Find Your Favorite Programs The TiVo Plus TM service provides many ways to search large num bers of TV program s, find your favorites, and schedule recordi ngs. The following options are very u seful if you already know what program you want to record. You can also use any of them to browse through TV list[...]

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    99 7 Find Your Favorite Programs Choose filt er. Use the UP and DOWN arrows to highlig ht a category in the list, then press SELECT. Choose a subcategory. The guide displa ys only channels with programs in that subcategory. Changing a guide option. Highlight the optio n, then press the LEFT or RIGHT arrow to change the selection displayed. Save you[...]

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    100 Chapter 7 Features of TiVo Plus Service apostrophes ( ’ ), asterisks ( * ) and ampersan ds ( & ) are ignored. For example, you would use 6 OCLOCK NEWS to search for the title “6 O’Clock News.” Usin g Online Sc heduling to Find Pr ograms (TiV o C entr al On line) With TiVo Plus, you can schedule recordings on your Digital Medi a Serv[...]

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    101 7 Find Your Favorite Programs Bro wse by Time Browse by Time lets yo u browse all programs o n a particular day and ti me. With Browse by Time, you can filter the l ist to see only pr ograms in a particular category. For example, you can browse all the movies airing on Saturday nigh t. T o browse by time: 1. Use the arrow buttons to highlight a[...]

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    102 Chapter 7 Features of TiVo Plus Service Bro wse by Channel Browse by Channel lets you browse through programs on a particular channel. You can start with all ch annels or just your favo rites. T o browse b y c hannel: 1. Highlight and sel ect eith er “All Channels,” which includes all the channels you receive, or “Favorite Channels,” wh[...]

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    103 7 Find Programs That Match Your Interests Find Programs That Match Your Interests T r y a Wi shList™ Se arc h If you know what you like, WishList searches are great! A WishList search automa tically finds programs that match you r interests, tastes, passions, and whims on any channel you receive. And it keeps on searching for as long as you k[...]

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    104 Chapter 7 Features of TiVo Plus Service Crea tin g a Wis hL ist Sea rch From Search Using a WishList, select “Create new WishList.” Next, select the type of WishList: Actor, Director, Catego ry Only, Keyword, or Title. For most WishList searches, you use the grid of letters on the next screen to sp ell out what you’re looking for. As the [...]

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    105 7 Find Programs That Match Your Interests Key wor d or Title Wi shList. You can create a Keyword or Title WishList with one keyword or with several. For a Keyword WishList , the TiVo service checks for your keywords in the program or episode titl e, description, actor, director, year, and category information. A Title WishList works very sim il[...]

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    106 Chapter 7 Features of TiVo Plus Service Tips f or enterin g ke yword s: • To specify an exact phrase in a Keyword or Title WishList, surrou nd a set of words with quotation marks (to enter quotation marks, press PAUSE ( ). For example, the keyword PAUL SIMON mig ht also turn up a documentary about Simon Boli var with a director whose name is [...]

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    107 7 Find Programs That Match Your Interests Bro wsing, Rec o r ding, and Editing a WishLi st Brows ing all WishList sear ches. Select “View all upcoming WishList programs.” This selection displays a list of up to 10 upcoming programs from each of your WishList searches—and up to 200 programs total (so it may take a long time to di splay). T[...]

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    108 Chapter 7 Features of TiVo Plus Service Finding New Programs TiV o Suggestions TiVo Suggestions is a personalized list o f shows selected to matc h your preferences. How is this magic possible? Any time you watch pr ograms, live or pre-recorded, or browse programs with the Program Guide, in Showcases, or in TiVol ution Magazine, you can rate th[...]

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    109 7 Sorting & Grouping Programs Sorting & Grouping Programs With TiVo Plus TM , you can sort and group program s in the Now Playing list. While in Now Playing, press ENTER on the remote to see Now Playing Options. You can also Press 1 on the remote to change the sort orde r of Now Playing programs; or press 2 to turn groups on or off. Sor[...]

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    110 Chapter 7 Features of TiVo Plus Service Save to VCR If you have a VCR, you can save a program from Now Playing to a videotap e. Transfers to a VCR happen in real time. For example, if a program is two hours long, it will take two hours to save it. You will not be able to watch live TV or recordi ngs while saving. Most of the buttons on your rem[...]