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User Guide After you're set up, use this guide to explore MSN TV. What's in this guide 2 Welcome to MSN TV! Your MSN TV home page The Using MSN TV center Getting help on MSN TV 23 Favorites 7 Mail Saving favorite Web sites Organizing your favorites Creating shortcuts to your favorites 41 Settings and Account MSN TV centers Reading e-mail Writing e-mail Saving and organizing your e-mail Opening and viewing e-mail attachments Using the Address book Dealing with junk mail 29 Messenger Chat Adding users to your MSN TV account Setting user restrictions for a child Making Web pages easier to read Viewing your MSN TV billing information Customizing News, Money, and Weather 63 67 Printing Connecting your printer How to print Exchanging instant messages Starting instant message conversations Blocking people in Messenger Choosing a chat room Creating a chat nickname Inside a chat room 47 51 57 Improving your safety and security online Using the keyboard and remote control Index 17 Browsing the Web and using Search Going to a Web site you know Finding information with Search Narrowing down a search Searching for a phrase or name 35 Music and video Photos Finding audio and video content online Using the Media Player controls Receiving and viewing photos in e-mail Viewing and sending your own photos Printing photos How MSN TV helps keep you safe Safeguarding your information on Web sites Helping avoid junk mail Protecting yourself in Messenger Helping keep kids safe online 75 80 Welcome to MSN TV! By now, you've connected your Internet player and created your MSN TV account; you're probably eager to start exploring. If you haven't set up your Internet player, use the instructions in the Setup Guide to get everything connected. Come back here when you're done. In this guide, you'll explore the basics of using the MSN TV service. 2 3 Your MSN TV home page No matter where you go on MSN TV or on the Internet, if you want to get back to the home page, just press Home on your keyboard or remote control. Toward the bottom of the home page, you'll see links to Mail, Favorites, Messenger, Photos, Chat, and more. Use the left and right arrows on your keyboard or remote to see more links. The Using MSN TV center This is a great place to start your MSN TV adventure. Using MSN TV includes the MSN TV newsletter, Tips, Things to Try, and links to more information that will help you make the most of your MSN TV experience. The MSN TV newsletter includes articles, MSN TV news, and other information to help you make the most of your time online. Here are some of the other things you'll find in Using MSN TV: After you sign in to MSN TV, you see the home page. The home page is like downtown MSN TV: from there, you can get just about anywhere. Take a few minutes to get acquainted with your home page. There's a lot to explore! In the center of the home page, you'll see the latest news and weather, as well as tips to help you make the most of your MSN TV experience. You can also search the Web from there by typing words or a Web address into the search box. At the top of the home page are some important tools to help you learn more about MSN TV. Let's first take a look at Using MSN TV. Things to Try, which has links to a wide variety of activities, from buying flowers online to keeping up with UFO news. MSN TV Tips that help you learn more about MSN TV. In Tips, you'll find instructions for many of the activities you can do on MSN TV, such as checking your account balance, finding others' e-mail addresses, and reducing unwanted e-mail, or spam. Try Its that let you do the things you've just learned about. 4 5 Getting help on MSN TV Looking for a handy reference showing you the basics of MSN TV? Already have a good grasp of the service's features and ready to learn more? Help can, well, help. In the main Help index, the topics are split into categories. This makes it easier to find what you're looking for. To get help while using a feature like Mail, choose the Help link on any page in that feature. To browse all of the Help topics available, press the Home key on your keyboard or remote, and then choose the Help link on the home page. Mail For example, if you're in Mail and choose Help, you'll get help about Mail. If you're in Chat and choose Help, you'll get help about Chat. Remember, if you want to see all of the Help topics, choose the Help link on the home page. 6 7 Mail You can communicate with people all over the world by using e-mail. You can keep in touch with friends and family, and even exchange your photos with e-mail. This section covers: · · · · Reading and writing e-mail Using the Address book Limiting junk e-mail Saving and organizing e-mail Reading e-mail The parts of an e-mail address Here are some example e-mail addresses: An e-mail address, just like a street address, has a few different parts that always appear in the same order. Name_123@hotmail.com myname@msn.com example@passport.com myname@msn.com Your Inbox is the starting point for everything you do in Mail, from reading and writing an e-mail to controlling unwanted e-mail, or spam. E-mail messages are delivered to your Inbox. When you have unread e-mail, the blue light on the front of your Internet player will illuminate, and the status bar at the bottom or your screen will show how many unread messages you have. To read your e-mail 1 2 3 Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. Choose the e-mail message that you want to read. Your Inbox opens. To learn more about Mail, choose Help from anywhere in Mail. This is the online or e-mail name of the person The "at" symbol (@) connects these two parts. You can add up to 10 additional users to your MSN TV account, each with their own e-mail address. To learn more, see Adding users to your MSN TV account on page 43. This part is called the domain. It may be the name of the e-mail service that they use or it may be the name of the company they work for. The e-mail will open in a new page. You don't have to read the entire message right away. It will stay in your Inbox until you delete it or move it to a folder. To read the next e-mail in your Inbox, choose Next at the top of the page. To read the previous e-mail, choose Previous. 8 9 Writing e-mail Writing an e-mail is as easy as writing a letter. Your messages just get there a lot faster. You can write e-mail to anyone who has an e-mail address, whether they're across town or around the world. To write an e-mail message Saving and organizing your e-mail 1 2 3 4 5 6 Choose Write e-mail from anywhere in Mail. The Write e-mail page appears. Type an e-mail address in the To line. Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. On MSN TV, you can save e-mail messages you want to keep, and you can create folders to help you organize your saved e-mail. To create a folder If you want to send a copy of your e-mail to someone else at the same time, you can type their address on the Cc line (Cc stands for carbon copy). If you want to save a copy of the e-mail that you're sending, check Save a copy of this e-mail to my Sent messages folder. Type the subject of your e-mail on the Subject line. For example, you might want to create a folder to store e-mail from your family, another to store e-mail from your friends, and another to store e-mail from companies. To do this, first you create a folder, and then you move e-mail to that folder. You can move e-mail as you read it from the Read e-mail page or move e-mail directly from the Inbox. 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 Press the Mail key on your keyboard. Choose Folders, and then choose Add a Folder. Choose Add. Type the name of the folder that you want to create. To save an e-mail message you're reading Choose Move to Folder. Choose Move. Choose the folder that you want to move the e-mail message to. You can also create a new folder. Type your message. When you're finished, choose Send. To save an e-mail message from your Inbox Choose Move to Folder. Choose Move. Choose the checkbox next to the message. A checkmark appears. Choose the folder that you want to move the e-mail message to. You can also create a new folder. 10 11 Opening and viewing e-mail attachments Your friends may send documents and photos along with their e-mails. These are known as attachments. When you get an e-mail with a document or photo attached to it, you see a paper clip next to the e-mail in your Inbox. To open and view a document you receive in e-mail Using the Address book You don't have to remember the e-mail addresses of the people you write to. You can just save their addresses in your Address book. To add an e-mail address from an e-mail you receive 1 2 3 1 2 3 Choose the e-mail with the document to open it. Choose the attachment. The document opens in a new page. To magnify something in the attachment, choose Zoom in. To zoom out, choose Zoom out. 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 Open an e-mail message sent from the e-mail address you want to add. Choose Save Address on the Read a message page. Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. Choose Done when you're ready to go back to the e-mail message. There are various ways to do this. You can add an address when you read an e-mail, or your can add an address directly to the Address book. To add an e-mail address directly to the Address book To open and view photos you receive in e-mail Choose Address book, and then choose Add a Contact. On the Save address page, type a Quickname for the person that you're adding. This can be a nickname, for example. Type the first and last name of the person that you're adding. Choose Add. Type the e-mail address of the person that you're adding. Choose the e-mail with the photos to open it. The e-mail opens in a new page. Below the date, you see information about the pictures that are attached. Choose this information to open the photos. Photos viewer opens. Here, you can print, view a slideshow, or see photo thumbnails. Choose Done when you're ready to go back to the e-mail message. Tip After you add someone to your Address book, you can type their Quickname ­ rather than their full e-mail address ­ in the To line of an e-mail you write. 12 13 Dealing with junk mail You probably already get junk mail letters delivered by the post office. Now that you're on the Internet, you may also get junk e-mail, often called spam. The people who send these unwanted messages are called spammers. Some unscrupulous companies may share e-mail addresses with spammers, or a spammer may send thousands of e-mails to e-mail addresses at random, hoping that some of them will reach valid accounts. To set up a Junk mail filter 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. Choose Settings. Choose Junk mail filter. To block an e-mail address 1 2 3 4 5 · · Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. Choose Settings. Choose Blocked senders. Choose Add. You can set up a junk mail filter to help reduce the amount of junk mail you see in your Inbox. You can also decide how quickly junk mail is deleted from the Junk mail folder, which MSN TV automatically creates when you set up an account. There are other ways to handle junk mail. If everything you get from a particular person is junk mail, you can block all mail from their address. Of course, you can always simply delete unwanted mail. Choose the level of protection you want, and then choose Save Changes. Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. Choose Settings. Choose Junk mail deletion. Choose Add New, and type the e-mail address that you want to add to your blocked senders list. To choose how quickly junk mail is deleted Deleting e-mail To delete an e-mail after you read it, choose Delete on the Read e-mail page. Choose the setting you want, and then choose Save Changes. To delete e-mail messages from your Inbox, check the boxes next to the e-mail you want to delete, and then choose Delete. 14 15 Browsing the Web and using Search 16 17 Browsing the Web and using Search Imagine a library bigger than any building can hold, a world-wide shopping mall open 24 hours a day, a global newsroom, and an international town square where anyone can make their views known. Combine these things and more and you have the World Wide Web. You can browse and explore the Web on your own or you can use Search to find what you want. It's up to you. The Web is made of millions of Web sites. Each site, like a book, can have hundreds of Web pages. Going to a Web site you know Many organizations now put their Web address in their ads or on business cards. If you know the Web address of a site that you want to visit, you can easily get to it. There are three ways to go to a Web site you know · · · In Search, type the Web site address into the text box on the Search page. On the MSN TV home page, type the Web site address in the text box near the bottom of the page. What makes the Web so much fun is the way that many of these pages are linked together. These links take you to different pages. Most of the time, links appear as underlined or differently colored text that you can choose. Often, links appear as buttons on a Web page. You can easily spend hours browsing linked pages. This is also known as surfing the Web. In this section, you'll learn about browsing and searching the Web. To get more information on browsing or searching, choose Help on the home page. When you're anywhere on MSN TV, press the Type www key on the keyboard, and then type the Web site address in the text box that appears. This is usually the handiest way. For example, here's a Web address. Press the Type www key on your keyboard, type the address in the text box that appears, and then choose Go. Tip When using Type www, you only have to type the part of the address that comes after www. MSN TV will take care of the rest. http://www.ancestry.com 18 19 Finding information with Search There are millions of Web pages. To find exactly what you want, you have to be specific. You do the same thing when you call Directory Assistance for a phone number. If you called Directory Assistance and asked for Joe's phone number, they'd ask you for more information in order to narrow it down. You'd need Joe's last name, and at least the city where he lived. The more information you had, the better they'd be able to help you. Searching the Web works much the same way. There are four ways to search on MSN TV · · · · On the MSN TV home page, type the words or phrase you want to search for in the text box near the bottom of the page. On the search results page, type the words or phrase you want to search for in the text box at the bottom of the page. When you're anywhere on MSN TV, press the Search key on the keyboard. This will take you to the Search page. Narrowing down a search If your search gets too many results, use more keywords to help narrow it down. 1 Type moon in the Search box on the home page, and then choose Go. You'll get lots of listings on the results page. Since moon is a fairly common word, it's found on thousands of Web pages. You'll see descriptions of some of these pages on the results page. To narrow down your search, add some more information. Since you know you want to find information on the crew that went to the moon, type crew and moon in the text box. You can type this in the box at the bottom of the results page. You'll still get many listings on the results page. This time, you get more relevant results. Make your search even more specific. Type NASA and crew and moon in the text box. In Search, type the words or phrase you want to search for in the text box there. Try this search yourself: look for information about the first crew to land a spacecraft on the moon. In this exercise, you'll learn how to narrow down a search. 2 3 4 If you scroll down the results page, you should be able to find information about the Apollo team. To go to a particular Web page, choose it from the list. 20 21 Searching for a phrase or name Often, you may want to look up a phrase or a complete name. To make sure Search looks for the exact phrase or the exact name, put quotes around it. "New York State" "stepping stones" "interest rates" Here are some other searches you might want to try · Look up the name of your high school to see if you can find information on your former schoolmates or to find out how the school has changed since you were a student there. (You may need to include both the name of the school and the city.) Try to find a few different recipes for your favorite dish or dessert. Search for the town or city you currently live in to see if you can find information on its history. Favorites · · When you put a phrase or a complete name in quotes, you tell Search to look only for results that have those exact words in that order, and not results that are close to it, or that have only a few of the same words, or have the words in a different order. 22 23 Favorites When you find a Web page you like and know you'll want to return to, you can save it as a favorite so you can get back to it quickly, without having to search or browse for it again. For example, you might want to save as favorites the Web sites for your local library, a nearby national park, or even a resort you dream of visiting. You can then access your favorite sites by choosing Favorites from the bottom of the home page, or by using the Favorites keys on your keyboard. You can also set up shortcuts to three of your favorite Web sites so you can return to them simply by pressing a key on your keyboard. In this section, you'll learn how to save and organize favorites. Saving favorite Web sites Saving a Web page as a favorite is easy. To save a Web page as a favorite You'll probably find that you visit some sites regularly. You may want to keep current on news from your home town, or you might want to check the weather on the golf course every morning. 1 2 3 Go to the Web site you want to save as a favorite. Press Save Fav on your keyboard You see a confirmation that the favorite has been saved. On the panel that appears, choose Save. To learn more about saving Web pages as favorites, or other ways you can organize your favorites, choose Help from any page in Favorites. To see your list of favorites at any time, press Favs on the keyboard. 24 25 Organizing your favorites After you've used the Web for awhile, you may find that you have several favorites. You can create folders to organize your favorites. You can create folders with any theme or subject you choose. For example, you can create a folder devoted to your favorite online stores so you can quickly do comparison shopping. To create a favorites folder Creating shortcuts to your favorites Go to Favorites by pressing the Favs key on the keyboard or by choosing Favorites on the home page. Choose Organize. Choose Add a folder. 1 2 3 4 Type a name for the folder, and then choose Add. The new folder is added and the main Favorites page appears. Now that you have a new folder, you can move your favorites to it. On the Favorites page, choose Organize. A page showing your favorites appears. Choose Choose a Folder. Choose Continue. If you create a shortcut to a Web page, you can get there by pressing just one key on your keyboard. Setting up a favorites shortcut is similar to assigning a favorite radio station to one of the buttons on your car radio. To create a shortcut to a Web site 1 2 3 Press one of the Fav # keys on the keyboard. The Set Shortcut page appears. Choose Set Shortcut. You see a confirmation that you've successfully set up the shortcut. Shortcuts that aren't already in your favorites list are automatically added to it. Press and hold down the Fav # key that you want to change. A notice appears asking you if you want to change it. Choose Change Shortcut. Go to the Web site you want. To move your favorites To change a shortcut 1 2 3 4 5 6 26 1 2 On the Organize page, choose Move favorites. Check the boxes next to the favorites that you want to move. Choose the folder you want to move the favorites to. Your favorites are moved. 27 Messenger 28 29 Messenger Passing a note to a friend is perfectly OK on MSN TV. With MSN Messenger, you can send real-time, instant messages to your online contacts. They can send instant messages back to you, too. Instant messaging is quicker than an e-mail -- you can see your contact's response on your screen as soon as they type it -- and it's more personal than a conversation in a chat room full of people. This section shows you how to make someone a Messenger contact, reply to someone who wants to make you a contact, and exchange instant messages. Exchanging instant messages Before you begin exchanging instant messages with someone, you need to make that person a contact. To make someone a contact 1 2 3 Go to Messenger by pressing the Msgr key on the keyboard or by choosing Messenger on the home page. On the Contact list page, choose Add a Contact. Type the e-mail address of the person you want to add as a contact, and then choose Add. You see a confirmation; the person is sent a contact request. If you want more information, choose Help from anywhere in Messenger. You can add as a contact anyone who uses MSN Messenger and who has an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, webtv.net, or passport.com, or anyone who has a .NET Passport. To reply to someone who wants to make you a contact 1 2 3 4 You see the contact request. Go to Messenger by pressing the Msgr key on the keyboard or by choosing Messenger on the home page. On the contact request page, choose whether you want to allow the person to see when you're online and to send you instant messages. Choose whether to add the person to your contact list so that you can see when they're online and can send them instant messages. Choose Done. 30 31 Starting instant message conversations Don't be shy. Start a conversation! You can have a conversation with any contact who is currently online. To start a conversation You can talk to one person or carry on several conversations at the same time on MSN TV. You can continue a conversation you're already having while you start a new one. 1 2 3 From anywhere in Messenger, choose Contact List. The conversation page opens. To start another conversation Choose an online contact. Online contacts appear in your contact list with this green symbol. 1 2 3 4 Choose Contact List. Choose the online contact you want to have a conversation with. You can do other things on MSN TV, such as surf the Web or read an e-mail message, while you have a conversation with Messenger. When someone sends you an instant message, you'll see an alert at the bottom of your screen. To return to your conversation at any time, press the Msgr key on your keyboard. Type your message in the box at the bottom of the page, and then choose Send or press OK on your keyboard. Your message will appear in the conversation box at the center of the page. Any messages your contact sends will also appear here. You can type as many messages as you want. The conversation panel will open. On the left side of the panel, you will see the name of the contact you just chose, as well as the name of the contact you are already having a conversation with. To switch between conversations, choose the name of the person you want to talk to. 4 When you're done with your conversation, choose End Conversation. Tip You can add graphics, also known as emoticons, to your messages. Choose the smiling face to see the emoticons that are available and to select the one you want to use. 32 33 Blocking people in Messenger If someone you don't know or don't want to communicate with tries to contact you with Messenger, there are a few things you can do. You can block the person during a conversation, add the person to your Block list in Messenger settings, or block the person who has sent you a contact request. People you've blocked in Messenger can't see when you're online and can't send you instant messages. To block someone during a conversation To add someone directly to your Block list 1 2 3 4 5 Go to Messenger by pressing the Msgr key on the keyboard or by choosing Messenger on the home page. Choose Settings. Choose Edit your Allow and Block lists. Chat From your Allow list, choose the name of the person you want to block, and then choose Continue. On the following page, choose Block, and then choose Save Changes. 1 2 Choose Block at the bottom of the page. The person is added to your Block list. To block someone who has sent you a contact request in Messenger You see a page asking you to confirm that you want to block the person. Choose Yes, Block. 1 On the contact request page for this person, choose No, block this person, and then choose No, don't add this person. You will not appear on the person's contact list, so they will not be able to see when you are online and they cannot send you instant messages. The person will not appear on your contact list, so you will not be able to see when they are online and you cannot send them instant messages. 34 35 Chat Few things in life are as nice as chatting with friends. On MSN TV, you can have lively online discussions with groups of people in chat rooms. Things move fast in chat rooms, so have your keyboard ready! With MSN TV, you can choose from a wide variety of chat rooms, and you're almost certain to find one you enjoy. Choosing a chat room With so much going on these days, there's lots to chat about. You can chat about important things or you can chat about fun things. It's all up to you. You just have to choose a chat room. To make it easier, chat rooms are organized into categories. Got something on your mind but you're not sure what category it fits into? You can search all of the chat rooms to find what you want. To browse chat rooms by category In this section, we'll discuss choosing a chat room, creating your chat nickname, and what it's like in a chat room. Choose Help from anywhere in Chat for more information. 1 2 3 1 2 3 Choose Chat on the home page. On the main Chat page, choose a category. A list of chat rooms in that category appears. If the list is long, press Page Down on your keyboard to scroll down the list. Choose a chat room. To search for a chat room Choose Chat on the home page. Choose Search. Type a topic in the text box at the bottom of the page. 36 37 Creating a chat nickname Before you can begin chatting, you need to create a chat nickname, which other people see when you send messages to a chat room. To create your nickname Inside a chat room On the page that prompts you to create a nickname, choose Create Nickname. Type the nickname you want to create, and then choose Create. 1 2 Being in a chat room is a lot like being at a party. To whisper to someone When you first enter a chat room, you'll be prompted to create a nickname. If the name has already been chosen by someone else, you see a page that asks you to type in a different name or to choose a nickname from a list. Choose Join Room to return to the chat room you came from. From anywhere in Chat, choose Change nickname. The Change nickname page appears. Type your new nickname, and then choose Change. Otherwise, you see a confirmation that your nickname has been created. There are lots of people talking. There may be a few who are quiet. There may be several conversations going on at the same time. Usually, conversations move as fast as people can type. 1 2 3 While you're in a chat room, choose Whisper. A list of all the people currently in the chat room appears. Choose a person to whisper to. 3 1 2 Just like at a real party, you may want to whisper something to somebody without everybody hearing you. MSN TV allows you to send a personal message that won't appear to anyone else in the chat room. Unfortunately, sometimes there are people you just don't want to chat with. If you choose Ignore, you won't see the messages they send to the chat room. Type your message in the text box and choose Whisper Message. Note Although your whispered message appears in the main conversation page, only you and the person you're whispering to can see it. To ignore someone To change your nickname 1 2 While you're in a chat room, choose Ignore. A list of all the people currently in the chat room appears. Choose the box next to the nickname of the person you want to ignore, and then choose Ignore. You won't see the messages this person sends to the chat room. 38 39 Settings and Account 40 41 Settings and Account Settings and Account let you turn things on or off, make changes, or get information about your MSN TV service. You can also do things such as add a user, set user restrictions, and view your billing information. You can even control the size of the text that you see on Web pages. This section provides an overview of a few of the things you can do in Settings and Account. To learn more, choose Help from any page in Settings or Account. Adding users to your MSN TV account When you first signed up for MSN TV, you created an account. You can add up to 10 additional users to that same account at no charge. Each user gets their own e-mail address, password, contacts list for Messenger, Favorites list, and other personal settings. To add a user 1 2 3 4 Sign in to MSN TV as the primary user (the user you created when you registered). On the home page, choose Account. On the Account settings index page, choose Manage extra users. Choose Add a User and follow the instructions you see. 42 43 Setting user restrictions for a child Are you concerned about a child's use of the Internet? You can limit their access by setting user restrictions on their MSN TV account. When you create an account for a child under 13, the account automatically has these settings: · · · Web access is limited to help prevent the child from accessing Web pages with mature content Mail is turned on Messenger and Chat are turned off To set or change user restrictions Making Web pages easier to read You can easily change the size of the text you see on Web pages. You might want to make the text size larger for easier reading or smaller so that you can see more text on your screen at one time. You can also make Web pages easier to read by using the Resize Page key on your keyboard. To change the text size on Web pages 1 2 3 4 Sign in to MSN TV as the primary user. On the home page, choose Account. On the Account settings index page, choose Manage extra users. 1 2 In Settings, choose Web settings. You see the Web settings index. Choose Restrict a User and follow the instructions you see. Choose Change the text size on pages and follow the instructions you see. Note You can also use the Text Size ­ or + buttons on your keyboard (shown at left) to change the text size you see while viewing Web pages. To resize a Web page If you choose, you can turn off the Web surfing restriction or prevent access to Mail. Teach children never to give out personal information to anyone online and to use common sense when surfing the Web and using e-mail. 1 When you're on a Web page, press the Resize Page key on your keyboard. The size of the page may change. This might make certain parts of the page easier to view. 2 To return a Web page to its original size, press Resize Page again. If you resize a Web page, you may need to use the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard to see all of the page's contents. 44 Note Resize Page does not work on all Web pages. 45 Viewing your MSN TV billing information You can see billing information for your MSN TV account at any time. To view your billing information 1 2 3 Sign in to MSN TV as the primary user. (the user you created when you registered). On the home page, choose Account. On the Account settings index page, choose Manage your billing information. You see the Billing page. Make sure that you scroll down to the bottom of the page to see everything. View your monthly statement MSN TV centers On this page you can · · · View and update your billing payment information View and update your personal contact information 46 47 MSN TV centers Centers are gateways to online news, games, stores, and more. You don't have to look all over the Internet to find the latest news, fun things to do, and trustworthy online stores. MSN TV has already gathered the information for you. For example, Entertainment has news, articles, and gossip on show business. Sports lets you know the score about your favorite athletes, competitions, and teams. Games lets you play all sorts of online games. Shop allows you to go to the mall without ever leaving home. You can customize News, Money, and Weather to get the information you want. This section shows you how. Customizing News, Money, and Weather News News has a wide variety of news stories, from the top headlines to health news to opinions. It's a great place to start your day. News is normally customized to show local news for your area, based on the ZIP code you provided when you registered for MSN TV. If you want to get news for another local area, you can change your city at any time. To get local news for a different city Money In Money, you'll find the latest business and financial news. You can also track your favorite stocks. Quotes for your top three stocks appear on your home page so you can track their progress at a glance. To add a stock to My Stocks For more on using centers, choose Help from your home page or from any centers page. 1 2 3 Press the Home key on your keyboard, and then choose News. Type a different city name or ZIP code. 1 2 3 Press the Home key on your keyboard, and then choose Money. Choose Local, and then choose Change City. Choose My Stocks, and then choose Add Stocks. Type the name or symbol of the stock you want to add, and then choose Add Stocks. 48 49 Weather Weather is also customized for your ZIP code so you get local weather reports. These daily reports appear on your home page. More Cities lets you follow the daily weather in up to three other cities. You might want to follow the weather at your favorite vacation spot, or in your hometown. To add cities to More Cities To change the city you see weather for on the home page 1 2 3 Press the Home key on your keyboard, and then choose Weather. Choose Change City and type the name or ZIP code of a different city. Choose Change. 1 2 3 4 1 2 Choose More Cities and type the name or ZIP code of a city. Choose Add City. Choose Save Changes. Press the Home key on your keyboard, and then choose Weather. Music and video Weather's Quick Lookup page lets you see a weather report for another city. To look up the weather report for another city in Quick Lookup To view weather reports for the cities you've added in More Cities Choose More Cities. 1 2 3 50 Press the Home key on your keyboard, and then choose Weather. Press the Home key on your keyboard, and then choose Weather. Choose Quick Lookup and type the name or ZIP code of a city. Choose Get Forecast. 51 Music and video There's much more than just text and pictures on the Internet. Music, radio, and video clips and broadcasts make the Web come alive with an amazing variety of content. Listening to music and radio Many Web sites let you listen to music clips and radio broadcasts. There's lots more than the latest pop and hip-hop hits. You can find Web sites that feature all kinds of music, including country, jazz, classical, blues, Latin, ballads, rock, religious, and swing. With MSN TV you can enjoy Windows Media® content on your TV and home entertainment center. This section shows you how to find audio and video content on the Web and how to use the Media Player. Besides music clips, there are radio stations that broadcast on the Internet. Since these radio stations aren't limited by antenna reception, you can listen to stations based all over the world. Online broadcasts of audio or video programming are sometimes called Webcasts. There are lots of ways to get Windows Media-compatible audio and video content. For example, friends can send you their music and video attachments with their e-mail. Here are some other ways to find things to watch and listen online. Finding Windows Media-compatible audio and video content online · · · To find audio and video content Choose Entertainment on your MSN TV home page. Press the Music or the Videos key on your keyboard. · · Press the Search key on your keyboard. In the text box, type music or video or Webcast and the specific kind of content you're looking for. Use lots of keywords to narrow down your search. Try going to the Web site of a favorite radio station, radio network, news program, movie theater, or movie studio. Watching videos QuickTime and Real Audio and Video formats are not supported. Lots of Web sites have video clips, too. There's something for almost every interest. You can find news broadcasts from other countries. You can see movie trailers of upcoming box office hits and view video clips of current events. You can even see history and art video clips at some museum sites. 52 53 Using the Media Player controls In a movie theater, a projectionist runs the projector so that you can relax and watch the movie. On MSN TV, the Media Player is your projectionist. It's always ready to show you video clips, play music, or let you enjoy other programming online. When you choose a music, video, or radio link on a Web page, the Media Player opens, and then the controls appear. The controls in the Media Player work something like the controls on a VCR or a CD player. You can choose Play, Pause, or Stop. When you choose a windows Media-compatible music, video, or radio link on a Web page, the Media Player opens automatically. If it doesn't, choose Play. To learn more about using Media Player, choose Help from the home page. Here are some tips on using the Media Player · · · Look for the Windows Media Player version of the media you want to watch or listen to. QuickTime and Real Audio and Video formats are not supported. If you are connecting to MSN TV over a phone line, look for media files that play at 28k, low speed, or Narrowband speed. Choosing a higher speed may cause files to play slowly or incompletely. Here's what the Media Player looks like. C A Play You don't need to download any additional programs to watch video or listen to music. Pause Stop Rewind/Fast-forward These buttons don't appear during a live program. · · Media files play differently depending on how you're connecting to MSN TV, how large the file is, and how much traffic there is on the Web site that provides the file. If a file is long, it may take a few seconds for Media Player to load the file from the Web site. While Media Player is preparing a file, the controls may show Pause instead of Play. The file will automatically start after it has loaded completely. B D E C D E Done Stops the file that's playing and closes the Media Player. Title/File info Time progress bar Playing/Connecting/Paused B A Note If you're connecting using Broadband, you may see some different buttons on the Media Player. 54 55 Photos 56 57 Photos It's always nice to get pictures of someone you care about. With MSN TV, your friends and family can e-mail you their photos, and you can view the photos on your TV. If you have a digital camera and a compatible memory card reader, you can send your photos to others, too. You can also use your Internet player to display on your TV photos that you've taken. What you'll need · · · You'll need these items to view, send, and print your own photos. A digital camera (sold separately) A USB cable (sold separately) A compatible USB memory card reader (sold separately) Receiving and viewing photos in e-mail When you get an e-mail with a photo attached, a paper clip appears to the left of the e-mail message in your Inbox. To open and view photos you receive in e-mail 1 Choose the e-mail with the photos to open it. 2 3 The e-mail opens in a new page. Below the date, you see a small picture icon and information about the pictures that are attached (see the picture to the left for an example). Choose this information to open the photos. Choose Done when you're ready to go back to the e-mail message. Photos viewer opens. Here, you can print, view a slideshow, or see photo thumbnails. To find out which memory card readers are compatible with your Internet player, press the Photos key on your keyboard and choose Help on the Photos page. Once you have a memory card reader, all you need to do is connect it to one of the USB ports on the back of your Internet player. To learn about your camera and its memory card, see the documentation that came with the camera. To learn about your card reader, see the documentation that came with it. This section is an overview of viewing and sending photos. To learn more about using the Photos feature, see Help. 58 59 Viewing and sending your own photos Once you have your memory card reader connected to your Internet player, you're ready to view or send your pictures. To view your photos 1 Insert the memory card into your card reader. Be careful to insert it according to the documentation that came with your card reader. To see a slideshow of your photos 1 2 2 A message appears on your screen confirming that you have inserted the memory card and indicating how many photos are on the card.