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SUDDENLY, YOU HAVE A DESPERATE URGE FOR A TURKEY SANDWICH. SO YOU HIT PAUSE. WALK TO THE KITCHEN. MAKE YOUR SANDWICH. GRAB A COLD ONE. WALK BACK TO THE DEN. PRESS PLAY. AND THE LIVE GAME PICKS UP RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT OFF. WITHOUT MISSING A SINGLE, HEART-POUNDING PLAY. WELCOME TO DVR FROM COMCAST DIGITAL CABLE. 1676-DVR SA USER 12/8/03 1:46 PM Page 4 CONTENTS INTRODUCING DVR 4 Get More Out of Your TV 5 Take Control of Live Programs 6 GETTING STARTED 7 Prepare Your Remote Control 8 Manage Your DVR Box 8 FIND OUT WHEN YOUR FAVORITE PROGRAMS ARE ON 9 Display the Program Guide 10 Select a Program from the Program Guide 10 Search for a Program by Channel, Title, or Theme 11 Search for a Program by Date 11 CONTROL LIVE TV AND RECORDINGS 12 Pause a Live Program or a Recording 13 Use Instant Replay 13 Rewind or Fast-Forward a Live Program or Recording 14 Use Slow Motion 15 Watch Action Frame by Frame 15 Catch Up with a Live TV Program 15 WATCH TWO PROGRAMS AT ONCE 16 Turn PIP On and Off 17 Change the Channel of the PIP Screen 17 Move the Location of the PIP Screen 17 Swap the Main Screen and the PIP Screen 18 CONTENTS RECORD AND PLAY BACK PROGRAMS 20 Save Your Recorded Programs 21 Record a Program That You Are Watching Live 21 Record a Single Program or All Episodes of a Future Program 23 Record Two Programs at Once 25 Display a List of Your Recorded Programs 26 Play Back a Recorded Program 26 Display a List of Programs You Have Scheduled To Be Recorded 27 Cancel a Scheduled Recording 27 Cancel a Recording That’s in Progress 28 MANAGE PROGRAMS AND RECORDINGS 29 Keep Others from Watching a Program 30 Keep Others from Watching a Recording 32 Maximize Your Storage Space 35 Copy Recordings to a VCR Tape 35 Change the Default Save Time Setting for Future Recordings 36 Change the Save Time of a Recording You Have Saved 37 Erase a Recording 37 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 29 Questions about DVR 38 Questions about Controlling a Live Program or a Recording 38 Questions about Watching Two Programs at Once 39 Questions about Recording Programs and Playing Them Back 39 Index 41 Remote Control Quick Reference 43 1676-DVR SA USER 12/8/03 1:46 PM Page 4 INTRODUCING DVR OOPS — YOU JUST MISSED THE BIG CLIFFHANGER ON THE SEASON FINALE OF YOUR FAVORITE SHOW. IF ONLY YOU COULD REWIND THAT LIVE SHOW AND SEE IT AGAIN. IF ONLY YOU COULD WATCH THAT SHOW, PLUS YOUR FAVORITE SITCOM AT THE SAME TIME. IF ONLY YOU COULD RECORD ONE SHOW AND WATCH ANOTHER AT THE SAME TIME. IF ONLY YOU COULD RECORD TWO SHOWS AND WATCH ANOTHER AT THE SAME TIME. IF ONLY YOU COULD PAUSE LIVE TV FOR UP TO AN HOUR WITHOUT MISSING A MINUTE. NOW YOU CAN. WELCOME TO DVR. AND A LIFE OF TV WITHOUT “IF ONLY. ” INTRODUCING DVR You’ll never watch TV the same way Now you can: Control live programs as if they were recordings Easily record your favorite shows — at least 30 hours of programming Watch your recordings anytime you want Use the Picture-In-Picture (PIP) feature Get More out of Your TV With DVR, you can use your TV to: one live program two live programs at the same time with the PIP feature one pre-recorded program one live and one pre-recorded program at the same time WATCH RECORD one live program two live programs at the same time at least 30 hours of programs all future episodes of your favorite programs, just by performing a one-time setup SIMULTANEOUSLY watch two programs and record one of them watch two programs and record both of them watch a pre-recording while you record two other programs 1676-DVR SA USER 12/8/03 1:46 PM Page 6 INTRODUCING DVR GETTING STARTED Take Control of Live Programs Anytime you tune to a live program, DVR begins “buffering” it — that is, making a temporary recording of it — so you can: Pause the live program or rewind it Fast-forward through the portion you have rewound Replay live TV anytime you want Save the buffered program to the DVR’s hard drive to access it again later Buffered Programs DVR automatically buffers the last hour of the program that you’re watching and continues to buffer the channel until you: Watch the channel for longer than an hour After an hour, DVR removes the earlier minutes of the program from its buffer so that only the most recent hour is kept in the buffer. Tune to another program When you change channels, DVR begins to buffer the program you have just tuned to. It removes the program you were watching from the buffer. NEVER BEFORE HAS A REMOTE CONTROL FELT SO POWERFUL. WITH JUST ONE CLICK, YOU’LL CONTROL RECORDINGS, LIVE TV, PICTURE-IN-PICTURE — THE WORKS. AND HEY, Turn off the DVR When you turn off the DVR, it erases everything from its buffer. YOU CAN EVEN MAKE IT DO SOME FUN TRICKS. Have DVR record the program When you press Record , DVR records the portion of the live program it has buffered, and begins recording the rest of the live program as it is broadcast. When recording, the red Record light turns on. 1676-DVR SA USER 12/8/03 1:46 PM Page 8 GETTING STARTED Prepare Your Remote Control After you’ve co...
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