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Full contents
Back to basics
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Your Sky±HD remote control
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Your Sky±HD box
5
About your Sky±HD box
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What are HD and Sky±HD?
6
What you need to enjoy Sky±HD
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Keeping you up-to-date
7
All the features of Sky± and more
8
Your viewing card
8
Your Sky±HD remote control and your TV
9
Getting started
10
Turning your Sky±HD box on and off
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Changing the volume
10
Changing channels
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About the Now, Next & Later banner
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You’re in control with Sky Guide
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Overview of Sky Guide options
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Showing your Sky Guide pages in full-screen mode
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Seeing what’s on
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Quick glance at what’s on with Now, Next & Later
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Complete overview of what’s on with TV Guide
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Finding a specific channel in TV Guide
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Seeing what’s on your favourite channels
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Seeing what’s on the HD channels
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Identifying HD programmes
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Finding a specific programme
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Going back to the channel you last viewed
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Finding out more about a programme with the i button
21
Codes used in the programme information banner
22
Finding and listening to radio channels
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Using your Planner
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Managing your Planner
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Setting the Series Link function in your Planner
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Setting reminders for programmes
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Recording with Sky±
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Recording without interrupting what you’re watching
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Recording from Sky Guide listings
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Recording from anywhere you go
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Recording a promoted programme
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When recordings clash
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Avoiding recordings being deleted
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PIN-protecting kept recordings
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Cancelling current and future recordings
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Deleting existing recordings
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Keeping an eye on available disk space
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Disk space warning
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Recording radio channels
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Adding extra time to the start and end of recordings
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Pausing and rewinding live TV
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Saving after pausing or rewinding live TV
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Changing how far back you can rewind live TV
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Playing back recordings
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Choosing a recording to watch
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Picking up from where you left the last recording
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The Play symbol
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Checking the remaining viewing time
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Fast forwarding and rewinding
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Pausing
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Slow motion
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Stopping playback
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Using bookmarks for favourite parts of a programme
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Saving bookmarks
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Managing and deleting bookmarks
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Skipping to bookmarks
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Starting playback from a bookmark
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Copying programmes to video/DVD
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Enjoying Sky Anytime and Sky Anytime± 47
Seeing what’s on offer with Sky Anytime
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Viewing a programme from the Sky Anytime listings
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Recording Sky Anytime programmes
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About Sky Anytime programmes
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About Sky Anytime± programmes
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Restricting Sky Anytime viewing
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Opting out of Sky Anytime
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Enjoying Sky Box Office entertainment 56
Ordering Box Office programmes
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Choosing a start time that suits you
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About watching Box Office programmes
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Paying for Box Office programmes
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Ordering over the phone
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Having more control over kids’ viewing
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Changing your PIN
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About your PIN
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Hiding adult channels
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Restricting rated programmes
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Restricting specific channels
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Controlling the use of charged services
61
PIN-protecting kept programmes
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Restricting programmes in your Planner
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Entering a PIN for pre-watershed playback
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Turning off PIN-controlled restrictions
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Choosing your favourite channels
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Watching TV with subtitles or audio
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Going interactive
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More options
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Using digital text
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Using teletext
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Adding channels that aren’t listed in Sky Guide
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Watching your added channels
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Changing the picture settings
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Remote control setup
71
Resetting your remote control
71
Replacing the batteries
73
Your Sky±HD box connections
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Switching on Dolby® Digital audio
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Adjusting sound synchronisation
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Connecting to the telephone line
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Changing how the Circular Playback Display works
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Green stuff
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Saving energy with standby
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Saving energy with Auto Standby
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Recycling packaging
80
Recycling electrical and electronic products
80
More information
80
For your safety
81
Troubleshooting
83
Important information for customers with
a single satellite feed installation
93
Contact Us
94
Specifications
95
HD jargon-buster
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BACK TO BASICS
Your Sky±HD remote control
sets your remote to control your Sky±HD box
sets your remote to control your TV
shows Box Office programmes
shows TV and radio listings
turns your TV’s sound on and off
changes your TV’s volume
show what’s on other channels
or highlight on-screen options
switches to text mode
pauses a recording or live TV
plays a recording
rewinds a recording or live TV
records a programme
turns your Sky±HD box on, to standby or off
and turns your TV on and off
gives options including subtitles, favourite
channels and turning off the mini TV
provides interactive services
tells you more about a programme
changes channel or goes up/down a page
confirms a menu option
jumps back to last page or to
previous level in Sky Guide screens
turns on subtitles/audio description
or shows help on using Sky Guide
fast forwards a recording
stops playback of a recording
select on-screen options
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enter channel numbers or select
menu options
press before entering a radio channel number
Back to basics
The Sky installer should have shown you the basics of how to use your Sky equipment.
Here’s a reminder of what you need to enjoy the channels and features on offer.
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Your Sky±HD box*
lights when Sky± is recording
or playing back programmes
rewinds a recording or live TV
stops playing back a recording
records a programme
plays a recording
pauses a recording or live TV
fast forwards a recording
back up • jumps back to last page or to
previous level in Sky Guide screens
tv guide • shows TV listings
• turns your Sky±HD box on, to standby
or off
i • reveals more about a programme
arrows • shows what’s on other channels or
highlight on-screen options
select • confirms a menu option
lights green when you’re online
(using the phone line)
lights yellow when there’s a network error
lights red when the remote control is used
lights green when the box is on, amber when the box
is in standby and red when the box is off
Top
Sky viewing card slot • leave the
viewing card in here at all times
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About your Sky±HD box
With your Sky±HD box, a compatible HD ready TV and the relevant subscriptions you
can enjoy fantastic Sky entertainment in glorious High Definition.
Your Sky±HD box gets HD information from the satellite through the minidish, it
then decodes the information and sends it to your TV.
With a Sky± subscription, your Sky±HD box is a video recorder and satellite receiver
in one. It also has two inputs from the satellite dish, which means you can watch one
programme while recording another.
What are HD and Sky±HD?
Sky currently has the widest choice of HD channels in Europe, across sports,
and movies, to arts, drama and documentaries. Enjoy over 13,000 hours of HD
programmes a month – that’s more than three times the standard definition output
of the UK’s five terrestrial channels combined.
Our Sky±HD 1TB box comes with all the flexibility of Sky± and one terabyte storage
capacity which equates to 740 hours of SD content and 240 hours of HD content.
Plus with Sky Anytime you can discover a selection of the week’s best TV ready to
watch when you are. Depending on your Sky TV package, discover new drama series,
documentaries and the latest movies.
To discover what’s on in HD go to TV Guide and select the HD tab, visit
sky.com/hd or go to page 19 of this guide.
Check out our HD jargon-buster on page 97.
your Sky+HD box
decodes HD information
from the satellite
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What you need to enjoy Sky±HD
To enjoy all the benefits of Sky±HD you need a compatible HD ready TV, a
Sky±HD box and subscriptions to Sky TV with the HD Pack.
Your Sky±HD box is designed to work with TVs that carry the HD ready logo. You can
use a TV without the HD ready logo as long as it has these technical features:
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The screen must have a minimum native resolution of 720 lines in wide aspect
ratio.
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The screen must be able to receive High Definition pictures by either a DVI (with
HDCP) or an
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With your Sky±HD box and the relevant Sky subscriptions, you can enjoy all the
features and benefits of Sky±.
The Sky±HD box is a digital receiver and recorder in one, making it easy to record
and store a collection of your favourite programmes to watch whenever you want.
Store and play back hours of entertainment without videos or DVDs, record two
programmes at once, pause and rewind live TV and more. Plus, you can set up TV
recordings remotely using your mobile or online at sky.com with Remote Record, so
you can record the TV you love wherever you are.
The Sky±HD box allows you to store up to 60 hours of HD programmes or up to
185 hours of standard definition programmes.
To subscribe to Sky±HD, call the relevant number listed under the
Telephone Numbers page in your Sky Guide (see page 94).
Your viewing card
Your viewing card needs to stay in your Sky±HD box at all times so you can view all
the Sky TV channels you’re entitled to.
The viewing card slot is under the flap on the front of your Sky±HD box.
There’s no need to remove the viewing card unless it’s faulty or has expired.
Please remember these cautions:
• Don’t remove or re-insert the viewing card unnecessarily.
• Don’t bend the viewing card.
• Keep the card away from heat and sunlight.
• Keep the card dry. Never clean it with fluids - use a soft dry cloth.
• Keep the card away from small children and pets.
All the Sky± features and more
keep your viewing card in its slot
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Your Sky±HD remote control and your TV
Your Sky±HD remote control can work with both your Sky±HD box and your TV.
Press tv on the remote control to switch control from the Sky±HD box to the TV.
Press Sky to go back to controlling the Sky±HD box.
The Sky installer should have already set up the remote control for you. If you leave
your remote control without batteries for longer than 10 minutes or if you have a new
TV, you need to reset the remote control to work with your TV. See Resetting your
remote control (page 71) for details.
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