6 - TiVo

The Status BarThe Status BarWhen you press PLAY, PAUSE, FORWARD, or BACK, the status bar appears at thebottom of the screen. Whether you’re watching live TV, a DVD, a recorded program, orlistening to a CD, the status bar shows where you are and what you’re doing.®The CLEAR button hides the statusbar, the program guide, the channelbanner, and anything else that is not partof the program.In live TV, the status bar represents one hour and the white tick marks are 15 minutesapart. In recorded programs and DVDs, the bar shows the program’s length, and the tickmarks are evenly spaced depending on the length of the program. A white vertical lineshows where you are in the program.In live TV, the green segment represents the part of the program saved by the Recorder.the right edge of the green segment represents the current time. The Recorderautomatically saves up to 30 minutes of live TV. You can move backward and forwardthrough the saved portion of a live program. (For more information, see page 66.)5Status Bar for live TV.The white vertical lineindicates where you are now.You can only rewind live TV up to 30®minutes, or to the point where youStatus Bar for a twohourrecording or DVD.Tick marksThis symbol shows you arecontrolling live TV (here, liveTV is paused).This end is where youcatch up with live TV andthe current time.last changed the channel (whichever isless). When you change the channel, youskip ahead to the current time on the newchannel and start saving on that channel.If you are behind live TV and watchingThese symbols show that the BACKbutton has been pressed twice.This recording (or DVD)is two hours long.something you still want to see, youshould not change the channel.67