Freesat HUMAX HDR-1100S User manual

HDR-1100S
Your
USER GUIDE

INCLUDED WITH YOUR SMART TV RECORDER
Quality state of the art satellite TV receiver
Over 200 of your favourite channels
Picture perfect High Definition on selected channels
BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, Demand 5, YouTube,
BBC News and BBC Sport app
Pay for a little extra telly if you want with Netflix,
Curzon Home Cinema, Wuaki.tv and Hopster
Catch up on the last 7 days of TV with a unique
Roll Back TV Guide
Showcase (specially selected editorial TV picks)
Clever Recording – the smart way to organise your
recorded shows
Easy plug and play set up
Free, expert customer support – visit freesat.co.uk/help
or call 0345 313 0051
Welcome to Freesat.
NEED A HAND?
If you need help anywhere along the way, just go to
the Help & info menu on the Home screen or visit
freesat.co.uk/help

Your remote control 2
On screen icons 3
Home. It’s where it all happens. 4
The TV Guide 5
Your main controls 6
Seeing what’s on – Now & Next 7
Watching something on earlier 8
Planning what to watch later 9
Browsing whilst watching TV 10
Find out more about a programme 11
Find programmes by channel category 12
Finding and listening to radio channels 13
Setting a reminder 14
Recordings 15
Handy auto prompts 16
See what you’ve set to record 17
Find and watch a recording 18
Recording playback controls 19
Pick up a recording from where you left o 20
Managing your recording space 21
Pause and rewind live TV 22
Connect to the Internet 23
On Demand 24
Showcase 25
Search 26
Controlling your children’s viewing 27
Hiding Adult channels 28
Accessibility 29
Safety Instructions 30
Warning 32
Troubleshooting 33
Setting the universal remote control 35
Specification 50
Open source software notice 52
Basics
See what’s
on TV
Recordings
Extras
Contents
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Recordings – goes to
your recordings
Skip backwards – skips
backwards in recordings
Stop – stops a recording
and On Demand playback
Rewind – rewinds up to
x32 times faster
Record – records what
you’re watching or sets
a recording in the TV
Guide
Search – brings up the
Search screen
Back – goes back one
step
Up, down, left, right
arrows – moves
around the TV Guide
and menus
OK – confirms your
selection
Number buttons – to
enter channel numbers
SUB - turns subtitles
on or o
MAIN CONTROLS
Standby – puts the
box into standby, and
on again
Skip forward –skips
forward in recordings
Fast forward – fast
forwards up to x32
times faster
List – sort the TV Guide
into channel categories
Pause – pauses live
TV, recordings and
On Demand playback
TV Guide – opens and
closes the TV Guide
Exit – returns to live TV
Home – takes you
anywhere
i– gives you more info
about a programme
Colour buttons – gives
you more options
on-screen
AD – turns audio
description on or o
Your remote control
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part watched
to be deleted soon
series recording set
kept (won’t be deleted)
recording set
recording failed
watch from the start
unwatched
ON SCREEN ICONS RECORDING ICONS
may contain material with
adult themes
an HD version also available
High Definition
subtitles available
Dolby surround sound available
part of a series
film
audio description available
shown with sign language
reminder
On screen icons
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Home
The Home screen will take you anywhere
you want to go. Press HOME
Home takes you to:
TV Guide
See whats on Now & Next.
Showcase
The Freesat team’s picks of what to
watch this week and what’s available
On Demand.
Recordings
Record a show or entire series at the
touch of a button, all easy to find in the
Recordings section.
On Demand
The best Catch up TV and On Demand
services full of TV favourites ready to
watch when you are. Your Freesat box will
need to be connected to the Internet. (see
page 24).
Search
Quickly find a programme without
trawling the TV listings.
Help & info
Tips on making the most of your Freesat
box, and info about services for visually
impaired and hard of hearing viewers.
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The TV Guide
See what’s on the minute you sit down
with our at a glance ‘Now & Next’ view.
Press TV GUIDE
Use to explore:
- what’s on ‘Now & Next’
- what’s coming up in the
next 7 days
-what’s been on already but
is available for catch up
earlier
later
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These buttons can get you
everywhere.
Press OK on a programme in the TV Guide
and all the available options for that
specific programme will be listed.
So if a programme is on live TV now,
highlight it in the TV Guide, press OK and
the Action Menu will look like screen 2.
If the programme is on later, you’ll be able
to Set reminder , or Record it (Screen 3).
Press to scroll through the
options and OK to select.
Pressing OK on a programme brings
up all the available options.
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Your main controls
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The TV Guide shows what’s on now
and next in an ‘at a glance’ view.
Press TV GUIDE
To move through the channels,
use
To move through the programmes a page
at a time, press Pand P
To move forward and back 24 hours, press
and
As you browse through the guide, you can
find out more about a programme and see
a full description by pressing
Highlight a programme and press OK and
choose Watch now (Screen 2).
At any stage to go back to watching TV
full screen, press EXIT
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2
If you know the channel number,
jump straight to it in the TV Guide
with the number buttons.
TOP TIP
Seeing what’s on – Now & Next
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You can catch up on the last 7 days
of TV with our Roll Back TV Guide.
This is available on selected
channels with On Demand services
on Freesat. Look out for earlier
highlighted in the TV Guide where
this is available.
Press to see programmes from earlier
on today, ready to watch whenever you
are (Screen 2).
You can go back up to 7 days by continuing
to press (Screen 3).
Highlight a programme you want to watch
and press OK
To go back to the live TV Guide, continue
to press
To go back to watching TV full screen,
press EXIT
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3
Watching something
on earlier
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To plan your viewing a bit further
ahead, the full TV Guide has
listings for the next 7 days.
Use to browse programmes that are on
‘later’ (Screen 1).
For the full TV guide press again
(Screen 2).
To move forward and back 24 hours, press
and
You can plan your viewing for up to a
week in advance, setting reminders and
recordings.
To clear the Guide press EXIT
Planning what to
watch later
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2
To fast scroll through the TV Guide,
press and hold
TOP TIP
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You don’t have to stop watching TV to see
what else is on. For a quick snapshot of
what’s on now and next, press any of the
buttons.
To see what’s on other channels, press
(Screen 2).
Browse programmes on earlier today
by pressing and what’s on later by
pressing (Screen 3).
You can set reminders and recordings here
by pressing OK
To go back to watching live TV full screen,
press EXIT
Browsing whilst watching TV
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3
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Press ito see the programme
description.
Set a programme to record with one
touch by pressing R
TOP TIP
10

You may see these in the info area
High definition
an HD version also available
3D
may contain material with
adult themes
audio description available
subtitles available
shown with sign language
Dolby 5.1 surround sound
available
Find out more about
a programme
Programmes come with extra
info to help you decide whether to
watch them.
To see the programme info, highlight the
programme in the TV Guide and press the
button. A short description will then
show in the info area next to the mini TV
(Screen 1).
To see more info about the programme,
press OK for the Action Menu (Screen 2).
Select About
Here you’ll find a longer description of the
programme including when it is showing
again and other episodes (Screen 3).
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ON SCREEN ICONS
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In the mood for a movie, or need your
next news fix? Jump straight to that
group of channels in the TV Guide by
pressing LIST on your remote control
(Screen 1).
Use to choose the type of
channel you’re looking for, and press
OK (Screen 2). You’ll then only see the
channels within that category in the
TV Guide.
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2
Find programmes by
channel category
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Find the radio channels in the TV Guide
quickly by pressing LIST , then use
and select Radio.
To listen to a radio programme, highlight
it in the TV Guide and press OK
You can choose to Listen now , Set reminder
or Record just like a TV programme.
Radio channels start at Channel 700
TOP TIP
Finding and listening
to radio channels
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Worried you’ll miss a programme?
Well worry no more. You can set
a reminder from the TV Guide or
while watching live TV.
From the TV Guide (Screen 1).
Highlight the programme, you want to set
a reminder for, press OK and select
Set reminder
While watching live TV (Screen 2).
Highlight a programme, press OK and
select Set reminder
The reminder prompt will appear on
screen 30 seconds before the programme
starts, and will then auto tune to the
channel (Screen 3).
Setting a reminder
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3
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To cancel a reminder, press BACK
when the prompt is on screen.
TOP TIP
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Ways to record
1) one touch record from live TV
To record the programme you’re watching
now, press R
2) from the Now & Next banner
Highlight the programme you want to
record, press R
3) from the TV Guide
Highlight the programme you want to
record, press R
4) from Showcase
Record any of the upcoming programmes
in Showcase by pressing OK and selecting
Record
5) from Search
Record straight from the Search results,
by pressing OK and selecting Record
Multi tasking
Your Freesat box can record one channel
while you watch another. Or you can
record two dierent channels, and play
back a recording you made earlier.
The box will need to be connected to
the satellite dish with two cables. If you
only use one cable, this feature won’t be
available.
Pressing standby while recording won’t
stop the recording. Your Freesat box will
go into standby when the recording has
finished.
Record from when you started watching
Your Freesat box automatically saves up
to 30mins of the channel you’re watching,
even if you’re not recording.
So if you decide that you want to record
a programme part way through, press
Rand it will record from the point
you tuned to that channel.
Recordings
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Handy auto prompts
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Recording a series
If the programme is part of a series, you’ll
be asked whether to set the whole series
to record (Screen 1).
HD alternative
If the programme is also on in HD, you’ll
be asked whether to record the High
Definition version.
Solving a recording conflict
Your Freesat box will help you solve the
recording conflict by searching the TV
listings (Screen 2).
If the programme is on at another time
in the TV listings your Freesat box will
suggest it.
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Press RECORDINGS on your remote control
and navigate to the ‘planned’ section.
All the programmes you’ve set to record
are listed chronologically by the recording
date.
When a programme is being recorded or
is set to record the recording icon will
appear next to it in the TV guide.
shows the programme is part of a
series. All episodes will be recorded and
stored together.
See what you’ve set to record
RECORDING ICONS
part watched
to be deleted soon
series recording set
kept (won’t be deleted)
recording set
recording failed
watch from the start
unwatched
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Press RECORDINGS (Screen 1).
All the programmes you’ve recorded
are stored here. You can choose how
they’re listed, either alphabetically A-Z
by date, Most recent or not watched yet,
Still to watch
Highlight the programme you want to
watch, press OK and select Watch now
(Screen 2).
Find and watch a recording
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