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Search & OnePass
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Your ticket to limitless entertainment.
Find anything fast! Your TiVo box searches program
listings for titles, keywords or actor/director, names
and gives you results all at the same time.
Search from the TiVo Central screen, select
Search,
OnePass & Manage > Search
. Enter a few letters of
the show title or actor’s name and the TiVo service
searches across live TV, OnDemand, PVR
recordings, Netflix and the Internet to find matches.
You can search by show title, episode title, show
description or persons name (actor, director, etc.).
You can even search for a particular channel by its
network name or call sign (eg: ABC or ESPN).
To set up OnePass select a show you want to
watch, select
OnePass & other options > Create
OnePass (press the Rec button if you’re already
watching)
. Shows can be selected from various
places, including search results and from the guide.
If you would like to change the options for your
OnePass, click on
Options.
OnePass allows you to save all your current and
future recordings as well as links to streaming
content in a My Shows folder. In addition, OnePass
organizes all your shows by starting with any season
of your choosing.
The discovery bar & TiVo suggestions
TiVo is the only entertainment experience that
understands what you like because only a PVR with
the TiVo experience keeps track of your programming
likes and dislikes and makes suggestions accordingly
through the discovery bar and TiVo suggestions.
TiVo Suggestions
You can rate any show — whether it’s live, recorded, or
listed in the program guide — by pressing the
Thumbs
up®
or
Thumbs down®
button on your remote. You
can give a show up to three thumbs up (great!) or three
thumbs down (terrible!).
TiVo suggestions uses these ratings to select
and record shows you might like. Don’t worry, TiVo
suggestions won’t override your own recordings or
steal valuable disk space. If you choose to auto record
TiVo suggestions, you’ll find a list of recorded TiVo
suggestions in your My Shows list. TiVo suggestions
are marked with a TiVo suggestion icon. The more
shows you rate over time, the better TiVo suggestions
will get at finding interesting shows for you.
The Discovery Bar
The discovery bar is the bar of thumbnail images
across the top of TiVo Central and most other menu
screens. The discovery bar helps you find new shows
that are similar to shows you’ve recorded. It doesn’t
contain only shows. You’ll also find thumbnails for
actors, collections of related shows, and more. Press
the
Up
arrow to move up to the discovery bar then the
Left
and
Right
arrows to move around. Press
Select
on an image that interests you to open an information
screen about that item.
You can customize what appears in the discovery
bar by going to
Settings & Messages >
User Preferences >
Customize Discovery Bar
.
