Using the Remote Control

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Using the Remote Control

You use the remote control to interact with most of the features in Media Center.
Your remote control has five types of buttons:
 

  •  Navigation buttons, to move between items on the screen.
  •  Playback buttons, to control your media (for example, pause or stop).
  •  Audio-visual (AV) and power buttons, to change channels and adjust volume.
  •  Numeric keypad buttons, to enter alphanumeric characters or TV channels.
  •  Teletext and Fastext buttons, to access teletext functionality (if available). For more information, see “Teletext Buttons”.

Navigation Buttons

Use the navigation buttons on the remote control to move between items on the screen in Media Center.

Task Control Button
Start Media Center, or go to the Start menu if Media Center is already running. START

 
Move to the item above. UP

Move to the item below. DOWN

Move to the item on the left, or move to the menu. If a slide show is playing, return to the previous picture. LEFT

Move to the item on the right, or move from the menu to the folder items. If a slide show is playing, skip to the next picture. RIGHT

Select the active item. OK

Go to the previous screen. BACK

Show information about the selected item. MORE


 

Playback Buttons

Playback buttons in Media Center behave just like similar controls on common home electronic devices, such as CD or DVD players.
Playback buttons are used to control the playback or display of your media—music, pictures, videos, and TV.

Task Control Button
Play the selected song, Album, or Playlist. PLAY

For Album or Playlist, skip to the next song. For Recorded TV, skip ahead 29 seconds. SKIP

For TV, go back five seconds. For Album or Playlist, play the previous song. For DVD, play the previous chapter. REPLAY

Stop the currently playing media. Press PLAY to start the track again from the beginning. STOP

Pause the currently playing media. Press PAUSE again to resume. PAUSE

Record the TV show to disk. If pressed while live TV is on, record the current show (if pressed twice, record the series). If pressed from the Electronic Programming Guide, record a TV show or TV series to disk. RECORD

Rewind the currently playing media; if pressed repeatedly, cycles through three rewind speeds from slowest to fastest. REW

Speed up the currently playing media; if pressed repeatedly, cycles through three fast forward speeds from slowest to fastest. FWD

Mute the sound without stopping playback. Press MUTE again to turn the sound back on. MUTE

Adjust the volume. VOL +/-


 

AV and Power Buttons

Use the AV and power buttons to change channels, adjust volume, access a DVD menu, or to put Media Center in standby mode.
Some buttons, such as GUIDE, act as shortcuts.

Task Control Button
Adjust the volume. VOL +/-

Change the channel. CH +/-

Mute the sound. Press MUTE again to turn the sound back on. MUTE

Go to the Electronic Programming Guide. GUIDE

Switch to live TV if TV is not currently playing. If TV is paused, skip to live programming. LIVE TV

Go to the Recorded TV page. RECORDED TV

Display the DVD menu. DVD MENU

By default, the TV button has no command assigned to it. This button can “learn” to turn on the TV. For more information, see “Using the Remote Control Learning Functionality” later in this manual. TV

If the computer is on, put the computer in standby mode. Press the PC button again to bring the computer out of standby and return to the desktop. PC


Numeric Keypad

The numeric keypad consists of numbers from 0 through 9 and two other keys:

ENTER and CLEAR. You can use the numeric keypad to type alphanumeric characters anywhere in Media Center that you can enter text. If you want to delete characters you have typed, press CLEAR; press ENTER to submit the characters you have typed. You can also use the numeric keypad to enter TV channels.

If you’ve ever used an address book in a mobile phone, you’re familiar with how to use the numeric keypad to type text. Each time you press a key, you scroll through the characters that are available for that key.

To type text by using the numeric keypad

1.          Press a number to scroll through the choices that are available for that key. Each time you press the key, a different character appears. To backspace, press CLEAR.

When the character you want is displayed, press ENTER. Teletext Buttons Media Center supports teletext when it is available. The colored Fastext buttons on the remote control

1.          for Media Center PC work much like the teletext buttons on a standard teletext-enabled TV. For more information about teletext features, see Media Center Help.

To display Page 100 (teletext home page)

• Press the TELETEXT button (located to the right of the ENTER button). Page 100 will appear in a few seconds and completely replace the TV picture, but it will not affect the TV sound.

To access teletext pages

• Enter the three-digit number of the page you want to display by using the numeric keypad. For example, enter 300 to access the A-Z Teletext Index.

To navigate between teletext pages

• Press the UP and DOWN buttons on your remote control to navigate between Next and Previous pages.

To use the Fastext buttons

• The red, green, yellow, and blue buttons on your remote control correspond to the same colored buttons on your TV. Press a colored button on your remote control to go to a preset page.