6 - TiVo

Tour One: Play with Live TVStatus BarPress PAUSE to make the status bar visible. It shows a one-hour period. The greensegment is the portion of the current hour that has been saved by your Recorder.Look for the white line. It marks the part of the program you are currently watching. If thewhite line is anywhere back in the green segment you are “behind” real time (which isway better than being behind the times!).3Now press CHAN UP. When you change channels, the saved programming from the oldchannel is cleared, and the Recorder starts to save what’s showing on the new channel.Channel BannerPress INFO to see the channel banner. (You can also press RIGHT arrow.) It’s only therefor a few seconds, but you can bring it back by pressing INFO again. While the banner isvisible, press RIGHT arrow to switch from a small, to medium, to large banner. Note thateach version has a different amount of information.Keep pressing RIGHT arrow until you see the largest version of the channel banner.Notice the small icons on the right side. Each symbol represents a useful feature, likerecording or Parental Controls. Press the UP and DOWN arrows to highlight differenticons. Pressing SELECT while an icon is highlighted will take you to that feature. (Formore on using these icons, see page 68.)Finally, press the CLEAR button—the channel banner disappears. (CLEAR gets rid ofthings that aren’t part of the program you’re watching.)Now go have fun playing with live TV, then come back for the next tour!status barchannel bannerThis white linetells you whereyou are.selectable icons31