App: LIVE tab

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App: Live TV tab

Remote Control or Keyboard:

• While no controls are visible on screen (Press back/exit/escape to clear visible controls from the screen):
• Up / Down - Opens the right-hand Slice Guide for channel changes (or the grid guide if you disable the Slice Guide in settings)

• Left / Right - Seeks when viewing a recording or when you have paused live TV and have a buffer to rewind and fast forward through

• Select - Brings up the action bar with “Play/Pause” selected, so that you can press “Select” twice to quickly play or pause. From here you can navigate to the other action bar buttons.

• Back - Exits to the Recorded/Discover/Tasks/Settings screens

Touch screen / mouse:

• Touch anywhere on Live TV to bring up the on screen controls and action bar.
• Press any empty space to dismiss the controls and action bar.

Playback controls and action bar buttons:

• Volume - control volume.
  • When using a remote control or keyboard, select the volume icon and press select/enter to mute/unmute, and press up/down to change the volume

• Rewind - 10 second rewind. Left arrow/key.
• Big step backward : Down arrow/key will rewind 10 mins (not on action bar, recording playback only)

• Play / Pause - Enter/Select on a remote, Spacebar on a keyboard

• Fast-forward - 30 second seek forward. Right arrow/key.
• Big step forward : Up arrow/key will seek forward 10 mins (not on action bar, recording playback only)

• SAP - Secondary audio programming (action bar only)

• CC - Closed caption (subtitles) (action bar only)

• Zoom - zooms picture to fill screen, such as for programs that are a different aspect ratio (action bar only)

• Record - Records current program.

• Search - Jump to slice search for program, network, or channel-based search. For keyboards or remotes with number pads, just start typing to trigger search.

• Back to Menu - action bar button, back button on the remote, or escape

• If your keyboard has dedicated multimedia keys, those will also work.

Grid guide:

Search:
Typing numbers or letters while on live TV will open the search option. You can use this to switch to a specific channel number, channel name, or even show title. For example, using a remote with a keypad, you can enter “1004” + ENTER and it will switch to channel 1004.