You can use the General Settings menu to specify your favorite channels.

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1 My Preferences Passport Echo enables you to set several preferences to customize your viewing experience. These preferences are located under the My Preferences category and include Favorite Channels, Skipped Channels, Power-On Channel, Banner Duration, and QuickTips. Adding or Deleting Favorite Channels You can use the General Settings menu to specify your favorite channels. Once you designate a channel as a favorite, you can press the FAV key to jump to it quickly. If you have set up multiple favorite channels, repeatedly pressing the FAV key jumps from one favorite channel to the next. You can also use the Quick Settings to specify the channel you are currently watching as a favorite channel. For more information, refer to Making the Current Channel a Favorite on page 66. Adding Favorite Channels To add favorite channels: 1 Press the SETTINGS key, then press the (A) key. Note: If your set-top box supports the QuickMenu feature, you could alternatively press the MENU key twice. Passport Echo displays the General Settings menu. Passport Echo Customer Service Guide 87

2 Specifying General Settings... 2 Press the up or down arrow (or the PAGE + or PAGE - key) to highlight the My Preferences category. The right side of the screen displays a summary of the current My Preferences settings. If favorite channels have already been specified, the current count of favorite channels (e.g., 5 Channels) and the channel numbers themselves (e.g., 2, 4, 5, 8, 11) are listed on the right side of the display. Otherwise, the preference displays NO ENTRIES. If the My Preferences category is not expanded, press SELECT. The My Preferences category will expand to display various preference items. 3 If necessary, press the down arrow key to highlight the Favorite Channels preference. 4 Press the right arrow or the SELECT key to move to the Channels column. 5 Press the up or down arrow or the number key(s) to highlight a channel that you want to make a favorite. 88 Passport Echo Customer Service Guide

3 Press the SELECT key. A star icon is displayed to the right of the channel in the Channels column. The channel number is added to the CURRENT FAVORITES list. 7 To add another channel as a favorite, repeat steps 5 and 6. 8 When you are finished, press the left arrow. Passport Echo returns to the Preferences list. 9 To exit the General Settings menu, press the EXIT key. Passport Echo Customer Service Guide 89

4 Specifying General Settings... Auto Favorites Passport Echo features an Auto Favorites function that remembers the channels you watch most and automatically adds them to the Favorites list. Auto Favorite channels are indicated in the Program Guide by the following icon: Turning Auto Favorites On and Off Auto Favorites may be turned on by default; however, you can turn this feature on or off as you desire. Note: If you turn off Auto Favorites, Passport Echo no longer tracks or retains viewing behavior information. To turn Auto Favorites off: 1 Highlight the Favorite Channels preference. 2 Press the (A) key to disable the Auto Favorites function. The right side of the screen displays Auto Favorites: OFF. (Pressing the (A) key re-enables Auto Favorites.) 90 Passport Echo Customer Service Guide

5 Deleting Favorite Channels The following procedure explains how to delete a single channel by using the Favorite Channels preference in the General Settings menu. This function also enables you to clear all your favorite channels at once. For more information, refer to Clearing All Favorite Channels on page 93. To delete favorite channels: 1 Press the SETTINGS key, then press the (A) key. Note: If your set-top box supports the QuickMenu feature, you could alternatively press the MENU key twice. Passport Echo displays the General Settings menu. 2 Press the up or down arrow (or the PAGE + or PAGE - key) to highlight the My Preferences category. The right side of the screen displays a summary of the current My Preferences settings. If the My Preferences category is not expanded, press SELECT. The My Preferences category will expand to display various preference items. 3 If necessary, press the down arrow key to highlight the Favorite Channels preference. If you have already specified one or more favorite channels, the current count of favorite channels (e.g., 5 Channels) and the channel numbers themselves (e.g., 2, 4, 5, 8, 11) are listed on the right side of the display. Otherwise, the preference displays NO ENTRIES. 4 Press the right arrow (or SELECT) to move to the Channels column. Passport Echo Customer Service Guide 91

6 Specifying General Settings... 5 Press the up or down arrow or the number key(s) to highlight a channel you want to remove from the CURRENT FAVORITES. (Favorite channels are marked by a star icon.) 6 Press the SELECT key. The star icon next to the channel disappears from the Channels column. The channel number disappears from the CURRENT FAVORITES list. If you wish to re-select the channel after pressing the SELECT key, press the SELECT key again. The star icon re-appears in the Channels column, and the channel number re-appears in the CURRENT FAVORITES list. 7 To remove additional channels from the CURRENT FAVORITES list, repeat steps 4, 5 and 6. 8 When you are finished, press the left arrow. Passport Echo returns to the Preferences list. 9 To exit the General Settings menu, press the EXIT key. 92 Passport Echo Customer Service Guide

7 Clearing All Favorite Channels The following procedure describes how to clear all favorite channels at once from the CURRENT FAVORITES list. This procedure utilizes the Favorite Channels preference in the General Settings menu. You can also use this preference to delete channels one by one from the CURRENT FAVORITES list. For more information, refer to Deleting Favorite Channels on page 91. To clear all favorite channels: 1 Press the SETTINGS key, then press the (A) key. Note: If your set-top box supports the QuickMenu feature, you could alternatively press the MENU key twice. Passport Echo displays the General Settings menu. 2 Press the up or down arrow (or the PAGE + or PAGE - key) to highlight the My Preferences category. The right side of the screen displays a summary of the current My Preferences settings. If the My Preferences category is not expanded, press SELECT. The My Preferences category will expand to display various preference items. 3 If necessary, press the down arrow key to highlight the Favorite Channels preference. If you have already specified favorite channels, the current count of favorite channels (e.g., 5 Channels) and the channel numbers themselves (e.g., 2, 4, 5, 8, 11) are listed on the right side of the display. Otherwise, the preference displays NO ENTRIES. Passport Echo Customer Service Guide 93

8 Specifying General Settings... 4 Press the right arrow (or SELECT) to move to the Channels column. (Favorite channels are also marked by a star icon.) 5 Press the up or down arrow repeatedly to highlight the Clear All option. Note: The ClearA loption is located at the top of the C hannels column (i.e., above Channel 1). You can scroll the C hannels column quickly by pressing the PAGE - or + key. 6 Press the SELECT key to clear all the channels from the CURRENT FAVORITES list. The CURRENT FAVORITES list is now empty. No star icons appear in the Channels column. 7 Press the left arrow. Passport Echo returns to the Preferences list. The right side displays the text: NO ENTRIES. 8 To exit the General Settings menu, press the EXIT key. 94 Passport Echo Customer Service Guide