Help: Program magazine

# Program magazine

Your personal Program magazine is based on the EPG (Electronic Program Guide). It brings you a comprehensive overview on the TV and Radio schedules. You even can easily compare several programs at a glance.

## Setting up the Program magazine

Please click the Setup icon on
's user interface and activate the EPG tab. Here you can determine the contents of your magazine.

Hint: For reasonable use do not overload your Program magazine. Add programs of your interest only. Several stations do not offer EPG. Refrain from putting them into the mag. Remove them from the mag in case of persistant missing EPG information.

## Display Program magazine

Click the icon on the user interface of
to open your magazine.

Hint: Minimizing the EPG Program magazine dialog window will result in a small title bar placed on a desktop corner instead of a press button on the systray. To re-activate 's main user interface control the EPG dialog window has to be closed before.

### Getting additional program information

Many programs come with extended information. Appearing as a Tooltip it fades out after a few seconds. To make it permanently visible just click the program entry. To hide it again click once more.

## Control

Below the program columns you can find the controls.

### Leaf through the magazine

Each page accommodates a maximum of three program columns. In case the magazine consists of more than one page you can browse by means of <<, and >> controls.

### Synchronization

Use the time selector to synchronize all the program columns. Thus, you conveniently can compare several offered programs at a certain time of the current day.

### Update

Click this icon to bring your program magazine up to date. It might be necessary when program information is missing, incomplete, or obsolete.
Check the box to update all programs, uncheck to update the page currently visible only.

Start makes
tune to several stations in order to receive appropriate EPG data. That's why update requires no recording is in progress.

Hint: A comprehensive magazine may result in a complete update taking a lot of time.

### Print

You can send the schedules to your printer. It'll output the daily program of the currently shown columns on one sheet, starting at the time you selected.
You're enabled to print a single column individually, too. Therefore right-click the station name to get the entire contents of that column, including existent programs of days to come, ignoring the selected time.

### Up-To-Date Programme-Scheme / What's running now?

Use this button to enter the Up-To-Date Programme-Scheme. On this page you find a listing of all chosen EPG-Favorites at the selected time.

#### Back to Program Magazine

Click this button to go back to the Program Magazine.

#### Synchronize

Use this Selection-Box to pick a time. After Time-Selection, the Programme-Scheme will automatically update and show the appropriate programmes at the selected time.

Hint: In the printer dialog window, select the option "Only the selected frame" (if provided) and choose the paper format (portrait/landscape) as you like.

## Capturing a program

Clicking the broadcasting time of a program calls the Timer dialog window already containing proper parameters for recording the certain program.
You can edit the record parameters (start/end time) in the dialog window. Furthermore, the name of the file to be recorded can be changed. Apply the task and Close the window.

Hint: A time controlled recording can only start if your computer is turned on at record time and when is !NOT! running. Start and end time have to be different and different recordings must not overlap. If necessary, correct the automatically generated start/end time to ensure a space of at least two minutes separating two successive tasks. The timer function is only applicable when the Windows Task Scheduler is activated.