Specific programs

[rcofmx]

I am trying to locate specific programs, but have had no luck. I have looked and found the "press red button twice while in normal TV mode", heck, nothing changed hitting the button once or twice. Any Idea on what I am doing wrong? Is there a special file I need or setting on my box that needs to be adjusted? Thanks in advance for any and all assistance.

[SystemDude]

Funny you should mention..... I have been looking for that too.

First of all, it seems to be the green button, not the red (at least on mine!). Pressing once causes the box to present a program classification screen -- one for Movies, one for Sports, one for Adult, and so on. Very, very handy IMO.

But pressing that green one twice still does nothing on my machine. While I appreciate some of the search and organizational capabilities of the Elite (for example, I keep my channels sorted alphabetically by the customized labels I entered, rather than by channel number), I sure would like to find that program-name search function (if it really exists).

Oh and BTW, the classification screen only works by referencing the tags that the broadcaster puts on the channels, so you may find some of them amusingly incorrect. If you enjoy the Adult channels you already know what I mean..... hehehehe

[SystemDude]

<doing Snoopy dance with my supper dish...>

Finally figured out how to get to the Program Search. Pressing the Green button brings up the program classification screen, as in the last post. Once that is up, then you can press the Red button to bring up the search input window. Type in whatever you want and hit 'Search'.

It actually works pretty well -- with one extra feature I had not expected. It does not just search the program title field, but the 'Information' field as well. That means, for example, that you can search not only for a word in the title of a movie, but also for a name of one of the movie's stars as well! If you are a real movie buff, you can even search on the year of release. Or 'Montana'. Or whatever you want.

Bear in mind that it is what we in computer land call a 'stupid' search, and there is nothing wrong with that as long as you realize that it blindly looks for a match with the sequence of characters you type in, and that match must be absolutely exact.

By way of example, suppose you want to search for any movies starring Hugh Grant, so you enter 'GRANT' as the search term. If there are any places where Hugh is listed in the Information, it will find him. And also Amy Grant. And immigrant. And granted. (You get the idea). In this case, you might actually be better to search for 'HUGH'.

And in case you are wondering, searching for 'HUGH GRANT' (with a space between the names) will sometimes work and sometimes not. If the person who created the descriptive information accidentally put two spaces between the names, or typed 'H. Grant', or misspelled Hugh, nothing will turn up.

I really wanted this feature, and now it's even more thorough than I had expected. Cool!!

[rcofmx]

You da man.......Thanks