Franklin MOVIEVIEWS FLX-110 manual

22 M OV I E V IE WS User’ s Guide  Electronic Publishers FLX-1 10 ™[...]

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2 Introduction Congratulations! Y ou now own a powerful movie guide that you can take anywhere. MovieViews ™ is designed to help you quickly find the movies that you want to see, in ways that you can’t ac- complish with a printed book. With your elec- tronic movie guide you can: • find more than 4,000 movies. For each movie, MovieViews detail[...]

3 Key Guide OFF ON BACK Returns you to the previous menu or erases letters. CAST Shows the Cast menu. CLEAR Clears your entry . ENTER Selects a menu item or highlights a cast name in movie reviews. GAMES Shows the Games menu. HELP Shows help messages for the current screen. MENU Shows the main menu. NEXT Goes to the next movie title. T urns the pro[...]

4 Getting Started T urning MovieViews On The first time you use MovieViews, a brief dem- onstration appears automatically . 1. Press ON/OFF . 2. I f you want to stop the demo, press CLEAR . Disabling the Demonstration Y ou probably do not want to view the demonstra- tion every time you turn MovieViews on. Here is how to disable the demonstration. 1[...]

5 V iewing the T utorial MovieViews includes a tutorial that shows a list of the keys and their functions, and gives an overview of the product. 1. Press MENU . 2. Press to mark Tutorial . 3. Press ENTER . 4. Press to read text. 5. Press CLEAR when done. Getting Started ▲ ✓ Help is Always at Hand Y ou can view a help message at virtually any sc[...]

6 Changing Settings Y ou can change the type size, the shutoff time, and the screen contrast of MovieViews. The type size determines the size of the words, when reading movie reviews and help mes- sages. The shutof f time is how long the product stays on if you forget to turn it off. Set Contrast determines how light or dark the screen is. 1. If no[...]

7 Finding a Movie Review MovieViews contains movie reviews for over 5000 movies between 1914 and 1994. Here is how to find a movie by name. Note : All of the lists in MovieViews are alphabetized letter-by-letter , regardless of punctuation. For example, the movie Ace V entura: Pet Detective is listed before A Change of Seasons . 1. Press CLEAR . Y [...]

8 Finding a Movie Review 3. Press ENTER when it is marked. 4. Press to read the movie review . 5. Press CLEAR when done. Note : From within the movie review , you can press NEXT to go to the next movie re- view or PREV to go to the previous one. ✓ Another W ay to Search for Movie Titles Y ou can also search for movies by typing the first few lett[...]

9 Finding Movies by Cast With MovieViews you can search for movies that feature one or more specific cast members, as well as many other categories. In this example, we will search for movies that feature Lee Marvin. 1. Press CAST . 2 . Begin typing the cast member ’s name (e.g., Marvin, Lee ). Note : Cast members names ’ should be typed as the[...]

10 Finding Movies by Cast 5. Select a movie. Y ou can search this list the same way that you would search the main movie list. 6. T o return to the Cast menu, press CAST . 7. Press CLEAR when done. ✓ Selecting More Than One Cast Member If you check more than one cast member , MovieViews will search for movies that star both cast members. ✓ Anot[...]

11 Locating Movies by Categories Y ou can look for specific movies by narrowing your searches by categories. In the following example we will search for movies that won Academy A wards for Best Adapted Screenplay . 1. Press MENU . 2. Select Locate. 3. Select a category (e.g., Awards ). 4. Select the subcategory you wish to view (e.g., Adapted Scree[...]

12 Locating Movies by Categories Awards The A wards category lists movies that have won Academy Awards from the twenty-seven major award categories. Y ou can also look for films that received awards in more than one category (e.g., movies that won awards for Best Leading Actress and Best Director). Note : Since all of the Acad- emy A ward titles be[...]

13 Theme There are over 550 themes in MovieViews, and most movies have over ten themes each. Themes are the subject matter of the films (e.g., Drama , 19th Century , Robin Hood , etc.). Y ou can look for films that share one or more themes. MP AA Rating The Motion Picture Academy of America (MP AA) rates movies for various audiences us- ing the fam[...]

14 Locating Movies by Y ear Y ou can search for movies by entering a year or a year range. In the following example we will find movies that were released in 1973. 1. Select Y ear from the Locate menu. Parentheses indicate the decade column is selected. 2. Press three times to mark 19<7>0 . 3. Press to select the year column. Parentheses now [...]

15 Putting It All T ogether With MovieV iews you may fine-tune your searches even further by selecting multiple search items in a single search. The combina- tions of search items are virtually endless. In this example, we will look for PG-13 movies that star Kevin Costner and were released in 1994. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. Press CAST . 3. Select Costne[...]

16 Placing Notes Y ou can place a personalized note in a movie for quick reference; notes can be used to mark your favorite movies, movies that you want to rent, or recently seen movies . Y our notes are marked in the movie review with a . 1. Press N within any movie review . 2. Press ENTER to select Add Note. The highlighted text is the movie titl[...]

17 V iewing & Removing Notes ▲ V iewing a Note 1. Press MENU and mark List . 2. Press ENTER . Y our note list appears. 3. Press to mark a note, if needed. 4. Press ENTER to go to the movie review . 5. Press CLEAR when done. Removing a Note 1. Go to the movie review with the note you want to remove. T o find the note you want to remove, select[...]

18 Playing the Games MovieViews has two games that will test your movie knowledge, Hangman and Movie Quiz. 1. Press GAMES . 2. Press or to mark either Hangman or Movie Quiz . 3. Press ENTER to start playing. 4. Select Clear Scores from the Games menu to clear the scores for both Hangman and Movie Quiz. 5. Press CLEAR when done, at any time. Hangman[...]

19 Movie Quiz In Movie Quiz, your goal is to guess a movie from a series of ten hints. The sooner you figure out the movie, the more points you gain. After selecting Movie Quiz from the Games menu, you will be given your first clue. T o see another clue, press . If the full name of the clue or the movie is too large to see, press ? . T o make a gue[...]

20 Appendix Model FLX-110 • self-demonstration • screen contrast adjustment • battery: 1 CR2032 3-volt lithium • size: 6.9 x 10.1 x 0.8 cm. • weight: 1.6 oz. Replacing the Battery This product uses one CR2032, 3-volt lithium battery . Should you need to replace the battery , unscrew the screws on the back with a fine screwdriver and caref[...]

21 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. ( “ Franklin ” ) warrants to the end user that this product will be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of ONE YEAR from the date of original retail purchase, as evidenced by sales receipt. On discovery of a defect, the end user must return this product (transportation charges prepa[...]