2006 Service Update Guide For TiVo ® Series2 TM Digital Video Recorders Remote Control Tips Note: Your remote may look different depending on the model of your TiVo® DVR TiVo Button Arrow Buttons TV Power T Power Remote Active Light Customize your TiVo® remote. Some buttons on your TiVo remote are programmable (shaded in gray on the diagram). Press the TiVo button to go to the TiVo Central® screen and select Messages & Settings, then Settings, then Remote Control. Follow the easy on-screen instructions. See Chapter 5 of this guide for more on programming the remote. Press the TiVo button once to go to TiVo Central®, or twice to go to Now Playing--your list of recorded programs. Press FORWARD and BACK up to 3 times for 3 speeds. Press a fourth time to resume normal play. INSTANT REPLAY ® TV Live TV Live TV Info Guide TV Input Window* Select Thumbs Down Mute V Inpu Info ndow Wi Guide t Select Thumbs Up Mute Volume Play Pause Back (rewind) Slow Vol cord Re Chan Chan (Page) Up/Down Record replays the last 8 seconds of a program. Page Press CLEAR to delete a title in a list (like the Now Playing list) or to hide things that aren't part of the program you're watching (like the TiVo channel banner). INFO brings up the TiVo channel banner. Press the RIGHT arrow to switch among three versions of the banner, each with a different amount of information. Press GUIDE to see the TiVo program guide, then press INFO (while the guide is visible) to see Guide Options and change the way channels display, or show only a certain types of programs. CHAN UP/DOWN does more than change the channel--it also pages up or down through lists of programs or menu items. When you're watching "behind" live TV (for example, if you pause live TV and ® catches later resume watching from the paused spot), ADVANCE you up to the live broadcast. In a recorded program, press it once to jump to the end of the program, then again to jump to the beginning. If programmed, the DVR Switch lets you control two different TiVo® Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) with the same remote. Play Forward Instant Replay Slow 1 DVR Advance 2 DVR Switch 1 2 5 8 0 En 3 6 9 ter/Las Number Buttons 4 7 Clear Clear Enter/Last t *Window button: not active; functionality may be added in a future TiVo service update. Welcome ® © 2006 TiVo Inc. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. All rights reserved. TiVo, the TiVo logo, TiVo, TV Your Way, TiVo Central, WishList, Season Pass, TiVoToGo, Series2, the Series2 logo, the Advance logo, the Instant Replay Logo, the Thumbs Up logo, the Thumbs Down logo, Overtime Scheduler, Overlap Protection, Ipreview and the sounds used by the TiVo service are trademarks or registered trademarks of TiVo Inc. or its subsidiaries, 2160 Gold Street, P.O. Box 2160, Alviso, CA 95002-2160. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved. TiVo product and service protected by U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,241,428; 6,233,389; 6,327,418; 6,385,739; 6,490,722; 6,642,939; 6,643,798; 6,728,713; 6,757,837; 6,757,906; 6,792,195; 6,847,778; 6,850,691; D424,577; D435,561; D445,801. Other patents pending. ii Table of Contents Using This Service Update Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv Chapter 5: Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Audio Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Channel Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parental Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recording Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Remote Control Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Video Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phone & Network Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Account & System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restart or Reset System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 49 51 52 54 56 59 60 65 66 67 68 Chapter 1: The Basics in 5 Short Tours . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Tour One: Playing with Live TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Tour Two: Recording Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Tour Three: Your List of Recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Tour Four: Finding Great Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Tour Five: Beyond the TiVo Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 More Cool Things You Can Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Chapter 2: Pick Programs to Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Finding Programs to Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Finding Programs Using a WishList® Search . . . . . . . . . . . Season PassTM and Repeating Recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting Recording Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Recordings with the To Do List . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Channel Banner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Now Playing List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Program Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving Programs to Other Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copy Protection and the TiVo® Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Connecting Your TiVo DVR to a Home Network . . . . . . . . TiVoToGoTM Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Music & Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Multi-Room Viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 19 23 25 27 30 31 32 33 36 38 40 41 43 45 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Chapter 3: Watching Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chapter 4: TiVo Desktop & Home Media Features . . . 39 iii Using This Service Update Guide Thank you for using the TiVo® service! This Service Update Guide describes features and settings that may not have been available when you first purchased your TiVo® Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and which are not documented in your original Viewer's Guide. Some TiVo DVRs are capable of receiving different levels of TiVo service (either TiVo Basic or TiVo Plus service). This guide documents features of the TiVo Plus service. Basic Terms When we talk about the TiVo service, here are some terms you should know: Live TV. If you're watching a program as it's being broadcast, you're watching live TV. With the TiVo service, you can pause live TV for up to 30 minutes. When you resume watching from the paused point, you're "behind" live TV. Program screen. When you select a program (from the Now Playing List or a list of upcoming programs), you'll see a screen with information about the program and actions you can take. Home Network Applications and Home Media Features. If your DVR is connected to a home network with broadband Internet access, you'll enjoy a wide variety of additional features. See Tour Five on page 10 for more. Notes and Tips. In the side columns of some pages in this guide you may find helpful Notes and Tips . ® What's New · One-Button Delete. You'll no longer have to see a confirmation screen when you delete shows from the Now Playing List. Just one press of the CLEAR button sends it right to the new Recently Deleted folder (see below). Recently Deleted Folder. Ever accidentally deleted a show? Now, you can recover recently deleted shows from this new folder at the bottom of your Now Playing list. But don't worry, when your TiVo DVR needs more space, these shows go first! Improved TiVo Suggestions. Keep using those THUMBS buttons! Now, the TiVo service is better than ever at suggesting shows you might like. Take a Tour! The best way to learn about the TiVo service is to take the Tours in Chapter 1of this guide. · Now, let's start with the first Tour! · · iv 1 The Basics in 5 Short Tours Tour One: Playing with Live TV Tour Two: Recording Programs Tour Three: Your List of Recordings Tour Four: Finding Great Entertainment Tour Five: Beyond the TiVo Box More Cool Things You Can Do ® 2 4 6 8 10 12 1 The Basics in 5 Short Tours New DVRs may have tutorial videos on the Now Playing List corresponding to the Tours in this chapter. Select Now Playing List from TiVo Central®. Tour One: Playing with Live TV When you're watching a program as it's broadcast, you're watching live TV. In this tour, we'll take a look at how you can control live TV. So turn on your TV and grab your TiVo remote! Press the LIVE TV button to go to live TV from any screen. Moving Around in Time 1. First, press the PAUSE button. You can pause live TV for up to 30 minutes! When you pause live TV, you see a status bar showing a one-hour period. The green segment See page 30 for more on the status bar. shows the portion of the current hour that has been saved by your DVR. The white line marks your current point in time. When the white line is back in the green segment, you're "behind" live TV. Whenever you change channels, the saved portion of the old program is cleared, and the DVR starts saving the program on the new channel. Both the FORWARD and BACK buttons have three speeds. When you fast forward too far, press ® 2. Press PLAY P l a y to continue watching the program. Next, press BACK --the program rewinds. Press BACK a second time to rewind faster, and a third time to go faster still! Press BACK a fourth time (or press PLAY at any time) to return to normal speed. 3. Press PAUSE once more, then press FORWARD to move a small step forward. Press BACK to move a small step back. Press PLAY to resume watching at normal speed. ® button. The program jumps back 8 seconds--useful 4. Press the INSTANT REPLAY for when you miss a great sports play or a bit of dialog, or for when you fast forward too far. INSTANT REPLAY to jump back eight seconds. Press it again if you really missed the mark. 5. Press INSTANT REPLAY again, then immediately press SLOW slow-motion replay! 6. Finally, press the ADVANCE ® Slo w . You'll see your own 2 button. Presto! You're caught up to live TV. The Basics in 5 Short Tours 1 Changing Channels There are several ways to change channels: · To go to a specific channel, use the numbers on your remote control, then press ENTER/ LAST. (If you don't press ENTER/LAST, the channel changes automatically after a few seconds.) To clear the number before the channel changes, press CLEAR. To jump back to the previous channel, press ENTER/LAST. To move one channel at a time, press CHAN UP/DOWN Chan · · · on the TiVo remote. The channel banner includes the program's title, description, ratings, and other information. Tired of channel surfing? Press GUIDE to display the program guide. Move the highlight to any program and press SELECT. If the program is on now, the channel changes. If the program is on later, you'll see options to record that program. Learn more about using the program guide on page 31. Page Getting Program Information The channel banner appears whenever you change the channel, but you can also view it while you're watching a program. It has information about the program you're watching. 1. Press INFO (or DISPLAY if your remote does not have an INFO button). The channel banner appears for a few seconds. While the banner is visible, press RIGHT arrow to switch from small, to medium, to large banner. Each banner has a different amount of information. 2. Keep pressing RIGHT arrow until you see the largest version of the channel banner. The small icons on the right give you shortcuts to useful features like recording or Parental Controls. Press the UP and DOWN arrows to highlight different icons, then press SELECT to go to that feature. For more on channel banner icons, see page 31. 3. Finally, press the CLEAR button--the channel banner disappears. You can also press RIGHT arrow to ® display the channel banner, and LEFT arrow to hide it. 3 1 The Basics in 5 Short Tours If you just completed Guided Setup, the DVR is still organizing program information, and some programs might not yet appear. Tour Two: Recording Programs You can always record the program you're watching by pressing RECORD on your TiVo® ® service provides many ways to quickly search through remote control. Beyond that, the TiVo TV programs, find your favorites, and schedule recordings in advance. What's more, if a program is part of a series, ...