Operating Instructions

Using TV Guide
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To check / change / cancel a timer
programming event
To return to TV Guide
“Timer Programming” (p. 52 - 53)
If you select the current programme If a programme exists in both HD and SD
broadcasts
The [Timer Options] screen will be displayed to select HD or
SD broadcast.
101 BBC ONE 19:30-20:00 Wed 26 Oct 2011
119 BBC HD 19:30-20:00 Wed 26 Oct 2011
Timer Options
DIY SOS
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set
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Timer Programming
Function No. Channel Name Date Start End
Wed 26 Oct 2011 10:46
Ext Rec.
Wed 26 Oct
(30 min.)
(--- min.)
DIY SOS
(Timer Programming screen)
will be displayed if
HD broadcast is set.
A confirmation screen asking whether you want to watch
or record the programme appears.
Select [Timer Programming] and set [Ext Rec.] to record
from the time you finish the timer programming event
setting.
Das Erste
19:30- 20:00
View
Timer Programming
select
access
Note
This function is not available in Analogue mode.
Timer Programming reminder messages will remain displayed until one of the following occurs:
You press the OK button to view the programme or the EXIT button to cancel the reminder.
The timer programming event that the reminder is set for ends.
No other channel can be selected while the recording of Timer Programming is in progress.
When recording programmes to the external recorder, be sure to make the proper settings on the recorder connected
to the TV.
If a compatible recorder with Q-Link, VIERA Link or similar technologies is connected to the TV (p. 80, 81) and [Link
Settings] (p. 41) are completed, no setting of the recorder is required. Also read the manual of the recorder.
Guide link programming (Timer Programming from the TV Guide signal)
Guide link programming is Timer Programming which is controlled by information from the TV Guide; if programme
start and end times are changed by the broadcaster, the timer programming event will follow the change.
A Split Programme programming is a Guide link programming which is interrupted by one or more other programmes.
Note that Guide link programming (including Split Programme programming) only works reliably if correct information
is received from broadcasters.
(Timer Programming screen)
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7 BBC ONE
DIY SOS
The Bill
Red Cap
20:00 20:30
14 E4 21:00 22:30
72 BBC 2W
BBC ONE1
22:45 23:00
10:30 11:30
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Timer Programming
Function No. Date Start End Channel Name
Wed 226 Oct 2011 10:46
Ext Rec.
Ext Rec.
Reminder
Ext Rec. Wed 26 Oct
(30 min.)
(90 min.)
(15 min.)
(60 min.)
Wed 26 Oct
Wed 26 Oct
Thu 27 Oct
<TIMER>
“S/P” is displayed if the timer is set from the TV
Guide and the programme is a Split Programme
“Guide” is displayed if the timer is set from the TV
Guide (Guide link programming)
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The Bill
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Hot Wars Holiday Program
Pepsi Char.
Emmerdal.
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20:00 - 20:30 DIY SOS : We open in the Battersbys
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BBC Radi
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Coronation Street
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Example:
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if Timer Programming is set as the Guide link
programming.
Note
If you edit the start time or end time of a Guide link programming event by more than 10 minutes, it will no longer
follow the broadcaster’s changes to the start or end time. The start and end times will become fixed.
While making the Split Programme programming event for [Ext Rec.], you cannot record any channels between the
interrupted programmes.
The Split Programme programming event for Reminder will be cleared by pressing the OK button once to view.
The Split Programme programming event for Reminder will switch to the programmed channel by pressing the OK
button even if it is between the interrupted programmes.
The Split Programme programming does not work if the separated parts are broadcast on different channels.