CHAPTER 7 Features of TiVo Plus Service TM 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
C h a p t e r 7 F e a t u r e s o f T i V o P l u s S e r v i c e Introduction TiVo PlusTM is the service level that you’ve heard everyone talking about—the service level that features smart, automatic 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, including: • Season PassTM recordings. Automatically record every episode of your favorite series, all season long, even if the schedule changes.
S e as on Pass , Rec o rding Option s, T o D o Li st Season Pass, Recording Options, To Do List The TiVo PlusTM 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 Plus you can set a different recording quality for each recording you schedule.
C h a p t e r 7 F e a t u r e s o f T i V o P l u s S e r v i c e • 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 recordings by comparing recording priorities. You can change recording priorities with the Season Pass Manager. (See page 95 for more details).
S e as on Pass , Rec o rding Option s, T o D o Li st Recording Options include: Record Quality. The choices for Recording Quality 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 are described on page 74. (This option is not available once a recording starts.) Keep At Most.
C h a p t e r 7 F e a t u r e s o f T i V o P l u s S e r v i c e Season Pass Manager Say you have a Season Pass to ER and an auto-recording WishList 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 Manager to decide which program to record. If the Julia Roberts WishList has a higher priority than the ER Season Pass, the Julia Roberts movie will be recorded, and ER will not.
S e as on Pass , Rec o rding Option s, T o D o Li st Improved To 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 upcoming” to look for alternate showings of programs you can’t record because of scheduling conflicts.
C h a p t e r 7 F e a t u r e s o f T i V o P l u s S e r v i c e Find Your Favorite Programs The TiVo PlusTM service provides many ways to search large numbers of TV programs, find your favorites, and schedule recordings. The following options are very useful if you already know what program you want to record. You can also use any of them to browse through TV listings for interesting programs.
F i n d Y o u r F a v o r i t e P r o g r a m s Choose filter. Use the UP and DOWN arrows to highlight a category in the list, then press SELECT. Choose a subcategory. The guide displays only channels with programs in that subcategory. Changing a guide option. Highlight the option, then press the LEFT or RIGHT arrow to change the selection displayed. Save your changes by pressing SELECT or GUIDE. To cancel your changes, press CLEAR.
C h a p t e r 7 F e a t u r e s o f T i V o P l u s S e r v i c e apostrophes ( ’ ), asterisks ( * ) and ampersands ( & ) are ignored. For example, you would use 6 OCLOCK NEWS to search for the title “6 O’Clock News.” Using Online Scheduling to Find Programs (TiVo Central Online) With TiVo Plus, you can schedule recordings on your Digital Media Server at home from any computer with Internet access and a standard web browser. Use TiVo Central Online at www.tivo.
F i n d Y o u r F a v o r i t e P r o g r a m s Browse by Time Browse by Time lets you browse all programs on a particular day and time. With Browse by Time, you can filter the list to see only programs in a particular category. For example, you can browse all the movies airing on Saturday night. To browse by time: 1. Use the arrow buttons to highlight a category (for example, “Movies”) to narrow the list of programs, then press SELECT. 2.
C h a p t e r 7 F e a t u r e s o f T i V o P l u s S e r v i c e Browse by Channel Browse by Channel lets you browse through programs on a particular channel. You can start with all channels or just your favorites. To browse by channel: 1. Highlight and select either “All Channels,” which includes all the channels you receive, or “Favorite Channels,” which includes just the channels you have selected as your favorites. (For information on customizing these channel lists, see page 68.) 2.
F i n d P r o g r a m s T h a t M a t c h Yo u r I n t e r e s t s Find Programs That Match Your Interests Try a WishList™ Search If you know what you like, WishList searches are great! A WishList search automatically finds programs that match your interests, tastes, passions, and whims on any channel you receive. And it keeps on searching for as long as you keep the WishList. For example: • You could create a Category Only WishList for the category “Movies” and subcategory “Comedy.
C h a p t e r 7 F e a t u r e s o f T i V o P l u s S e r v i c e Creating a WishList Search From Search Using a WishList, select “Create new WishList.” Next, select the type of WishList: Actor, Director, Category Only, Keyword, or Title. For most WishList searches, you use the grid of letters on the next screen to spell out what you’re looking for. As the last step, you’ll then be able to select a category and subcategory to narrow your search.
F i n d P r o g r a m s T h a t M a t c h Yo u r I n t e r e s t s Keyword or Title WishList. 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 title, description, actor, director, year, and category information. A Title WishList works very similarly, but the TiVo service only searches program and episode titles.
C h a p t e r ® 7 F e a t u r e s T i V o P l u s S e r v i c e If you like music performances, try a Tips for entering keywords: keyword WishList for “Concert.” • To specify an exact phrase in a Keyword or Title WishList, surround a set of words with quotation marks (to enter quotation marks, press PAUSE ( ). For example, the keyword PAUL SIMON might also turn up a documentary about Simon Bolivar with a director whose name is Paul.
F i n d P r o g r a m s T h a t M a t c h Yo u r I n t e r e s t s Browsing, Recording, and Editing a WishList Browsing all WishList searches. 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 display). To record a program, select its title; you will see the Program Information screen, where you can select “Record this episode” and other actions.
C h a p t e r 7 If other members of your household ® F e a t u r e s o f T i V o P l u s S e r v i c e Finding New Programs are pressing THUMBS UP on shows you don’t care for, and vice versa, you may TiVo Suggestions find that TiVo Suggestions is making TiVo Suggestions is a personalized list of shows selected to match your preferences.
S o r t i n g & G r o u p i n g P r o g r a m s Sorting & Grouping Programs With TiVo PlusTM, you can sort and group programs 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 order of Now Playing programs; or press 2 to turn groups on or off. Sorting Programs. Choose how you want the programs in Now Playing to be listed: • Alphabetically. Programs are listed alphabetically by title (from A to Z).
C h a p t e r 7 F e a t u r e s o f T i V o P l u s S e r v i c e Save to VCR If you have a VCR, you can save a program from Now Playing to a videotape. 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 recordings while saving.
