Unity TV Menus and Features

How to Use the Unity TV Menus and Features
July 1, 2012

Unity TV – Main Menu

Unity TV Menu

Unity TV – Main Menu Search

• Ability to navigate directly to different Search options from Main Menu

Unity TV – Search by Title

• Results appear as you type
• No Channel Lineup – Keyboard is not active

Unity TV - Program Information Bar

• Mini Program Info Bar – When you press “Info” Remote
button on the channel being watched

Unity TV – Detailed Program Information

• Extended Program Info – When you press “Info” Remote
button on any program in the Guide

Unity TV – Program Guide

Electronic Program Guide (EPG)

• User must have broadband connection
• Once the setup is complete, EPG data will be available in about
an hour.
• EPG will be downloaded once every hour
• User gets 14 days of guide data
• Box retains the guide on a reboot
• No Network – Guide is retrieved through PSIP
• EPG data overrides PSIP data

Unity TV - DVR

You can start a recording in 2 ways
1. Pressing the “Red” button on the Remote
2. Pressing “OK” on any program and selecting the “Record” option

Unity TV - DVR

• Press “Red” shortcut button on the remote to start a recording
• Two programs can be recorded simultaneously

Unity TV – DVR (cont’d)

• Recording Conflict – When the user tries to record more than
two programs at a time

Unity TV - DVR

• Pressing “OK” on any future program will bring you the options to record a
Single Episode or a Series.

Unity TV - DVR

• Pressing “OK” on the channel that you are watching brings you the
options to record a Single Episode or a Series as well.

Unity TV - DVR

Pause Live TV

• User can Play, Pause, Rewind and Forward on a channel
• Press “Pause” remote button to pause a channel
• Pause Live TV (PLTV) buffer length - 2 hours
• Buffer gets cleared when the user tunes away from the channel

Unity TV - DVR

Record Episode

Unity TV - DVR

• Series recording indicator appears on the guide for Series Recording

Unity TV – DVR

DVR Recordings

Unity TV – DVR

Manual Recording

Unity TV – DVR

DVR Schedule

Unity TV – DVR

DVR Schedule – Program Options

• Pressing “OK” on any of the Schedule Recordings will give you the
option to modify the recording settings.

Unity TV – DVR (cont’d)

Recording Options

Unity TV – DVR

• Disk Space
• <10% - Disk Low message
• <1% - Disk Full message

Unity TV – DVR

• 500GB Hard Disk Drive
• Up to 55 hours of HD recording
• Up to 235 hours of SD recording
• Two programs can be recorded simultaneously
• PLTV buffer length - 2 hours
• Disk Space
• <10% - Disk Low message
• <1% - Disk Full message
• Recording Delete Order
• Oldest recordings with lowest priority deleted first
• If Program has higher priority than the program to be recorded, it
will not be deleted
• If all existing programs have a higher priority than the new
program, the new program will fail to record

Unity TV – Main Menu VUDU

• Launch VUDU Apps or Movies directly from the Main Menu
• Pressing “Blue” Remote button launches VUDU

Unity TV – VUDU Apps

• Launch over 50+ Web Apps

Unity TV – VUDU Movies

User is given the option to “Start Free Trial” or “Browse” the
movies when VUDU is launched for the first time.

Unity TV – VUDU

• Click on the “Start Free Trial” to Login Or to Signup for free trial

Unity TV – VUDU

• Enter your email address to start the free trial

Unity TV – VUDU

• Confirm your email address

Unity TV – VUDU

• Account Setup Completed screen

Unity TV – VUDU Movies

• User is given a $5.99 Credit for starting the free trial
• Available credit appears at the top left portion of the screen

Unity TV – VUDU

• Users has an option to either “Rent” or “Buy” a movie.

Unity TV – VUDU

Buy/Rent -

• When users Buy a movie, it is stored permanently on their box.

• When users Rent a movie, they have 30 days to begin viewing the
movie.

• Once the user presses play, a 24 hour viewing period is initiated, after
which the rental will expire.

• Within that 24 hour period, users can watch the movie as often as they
wish.

• There may also be movies from independent studios that allow users a
48 hour period to watch the movie.

Unity TV – VUDU

• VUDU tests the network speed when users rent the movie for the first
time

Unity TV – VUDU

• Network Speed Test Screen

Unity TV – VUDU

• Based on the network speed results, Users can choose the movie
quality to rent/buy

Unity TV – VUDU

Movie Rental Confirmation

Unity TV – VUDU

Account Setup

• After the free trial period expires, users will have to provide payment
details to be able to continue renting movies.
• This process can be done on the Vudu Website (http://www.vudu.com/).

Unity TV – VUDU

Movie Playback

• Navigate to different chapters of the Movie
• Choose the Video Quality
• Stop, Rewind, Pause, Forward and Play

Unity TV – VUDU

VUDU Settings

• Network Speed Test – Test the Network speed
• Parental Controls – Set the movie ratings and passcode
• Account Info – View the Account Balance and Credit card on File
• Overscan Settings – Adjust the picture size to fit the TV screen

Unity TV – VUDU

Overscan settings

• Adjust the picture size to fit the TV screen

Unity TV – VUDU

Facebook App - Login

Unity TV – VUDU

Facebook App – Permission Request

• The user has to grant the permission for VUDU to access Facebook for
the first time

Unity TV – VUDU

Facebook App – Account Page

• The user can access the News Feed, View Profile, Friends list and
Photos on the Facebook Account page

Unity TV – Main Menu Music

• Navigate to different Music categories directly from the Main Menu

Unity TV – Music
USB External Drive

• Users gets a pop-up on the screen when a USB drive is plugged into the
box while watching a live channel
• Users can navigate directly to one of the Media categories

Unity TV – Music
USB External Drive

• Users can connect more than one USB drives at a time
• They can navigate to the desired USB drive folder from the list

Unity TV – Music
USB External Drive

• Press “OK” on the songs listed to view the options to “Play Song” or “Copy
the song to the box”

Unity TV – Music
USB External Drive

• Songs are played in the background.
• To view the Music controls, press the “Blue” Remote button

Unity TV – Music
Music Controls

• User can Pause, Rewind, Forward, Play the Music
• Press “Blue” remote button to go back to Music folder

Unity TV – Music
USB External Drive

• You can copy Media from the USB drive to the box

Unity TV – Music
Music – All

• The music available on the box can be seen from the “Music -> All” page

Unity TV – Music
Music – All

Select a song and press “OK” Remote button to get list of options
• Play Song
• Add to Playlist (Note that music copied into the box can only be added to the
playlist)

Unity TV – Music
Music – Playlists

• Songs can be added to an existing Playlist or a new playlist

Unity TV – Music
Music – Playlists

• Playlists can be opened directly from the Main Menu Music
• Press “Play” Remote button to play all the songs in a playlist

Unity TV – Main Menu Photos

Navigate to different Photo categories directly from the Main Menu

Unity TV – Photos

• Photos Slideshow
• Can view slideshow of photos copied into My Media
• Music can run in the background

Unity TV – Main Menu Videos

Navigate to different Video categories directly from the Main Menu

Unity TV – Media Management

Supported File Formats:
• Audio : AAC, MP3, PCM, WAV, WMA, WMA Pro,
Dolby Digital
• Photo : BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF
• Video : MPEG 1,2,4, H.264, WM9, DivX, AVS,
MP4/MOV, MKV, VC1

Unity TV – PlayOn

What is PlayOn?
• PlayOn is an application that allows consumers to show PC based video
subscriptions on the TV.
• PlayOn is a software program that runs on your Windows PC, giving you
access to a wide range of Internet-based on-demand content on your Unity TV
• PlayOn runs in the background on your PC over your home network.

What content is available through PlayOn?
Content sites that are available through PlayOn include YouTube, Hulu, Netflix,
Comedy Central, and many others.

Requirements
• PlayOn software running your Windows PC
• PC and Unity TV box connected to the same local network

NOTE
PlayOn is a subscription based service
Netflix, Hulu subscriptions required to play through PlayOn.

Unity TV – PlayOn

PlayOn Software – Settings

Unity TV – PlayOn

PlayOn Software – Settings

• Enter login credentials of the providers that you wish to watch on Unity TV
box
• Uncheck the “Enabled” option to disable the provider

Unity TV – Videos/PlayOn

• Navigate to “Videos -> Other Locations” to view the available PC & Servers
in the network


• Select the “PCs & Servers” from the list


• You will see the “PlayOn” as the available option if the “PlayOn” software is running
on the Windows PC and the PC is in the same local network as the Unity TV box.


• The content providers that you enabled in the “PlayOn” settings on your PC appear
in the list


PlayOn – Netflix

• Login to your Netflix account on www.netflix.com and add movies to the Instant
Queue to watch them on Unity TV
• You can also browse through different categories on Unity TV to find the movies to
watch

Unity TV – Browser

• Opera Web Browser
• Easy to Use Keyboard
• Flash plugin is not Supported at this point

Unity TV – Main Menu Settings

Unity TV – Settings

Settings – Menu

Device

• Device Settings page can be used to change Audio settings, Re-Scan/Manage
Channels, Configure the Date and Time, Change the Video Output, Configure the
Front Panel Display, Modify Network Settings and View the System Information

Device – Audio/Digital Audio Output

• You can use this to set the audio output to either Dolby Digital or PCM
Dolby - surround sound audio codec designed to deliver 5.1 channels of audio
PCM - two-channel stereo with no surround sound or compression

Device – Display/Video Output

• You can use this to modify TV Resolution & TV Aspect Ratio

Device – Display/Closed Captioning

Device – Display/RF Output Channel

• By default, RF Output is delivered on Channel 3 Frequency
• Some 3rd party devices may use Channel 3 Frequency causing interference. To
avoid the interference, you can set the output to Channel 4

Device – Hardware/Front Panel

• Enable/Disable the Lights that appear on the Front Panel

Device – Hardware/Fan Speed

• Control the Fan Speed inside the box. Available options are Off/Low/Middle/High.

Device – Channels

• Channels Settings page can be used to Re-Scan or Manage the existing channels.

Device – Channels/Manage Channels

• Manage channels can be used to block the channels

Device – Network

• Re-configure/View the network settings

Device – Network

• Choose Wireless or Wired connection from this page

Device – System Information

• System Information page showing Serial Number (S/N), Hardware Version, Software
version, Network Information.
• CSRs should collect this information when troubleshooting an issue.

Device – Date & Time/Automatic

Device – Date & Time/Manual

Parental Controls

• You will be prompted to enter a New Pin the first time you launch “Parental Controls”


Parental Controls

Parental Controls – Television Permission Level

• Control which programs to be restricted based on the ratings in the Program Guide
• Note that anytime you wish to watch a restricted program, you will be prompted to
enter the Parental Controls PIN

Parental Controls – Application Settings

• Control the specific applications that you wish to restrict with Parental Controls

Parental Controls – Block Channels

• Control the specific channels that you wish to restrict with Parental Controls

Parental Controls – Reset

• Reset the Parental Control settings to Default

Restart & Reset

• Restart – Reboot the Unity TV box
• Reset VUDU – Delete the VUDU account information
• Delete Content – Delete the DVR Recordings, Browser Settings and Saved Media
• Repeat Setup Wizard – Repeat the Setup to configure a new video source
• Reset to Factory Default – Reset the Unity TV box to default

Restart & Reset – Restart

Restart & Reset – Reset VUDU

Restart & Reset – Delete Content

Restart & Reset – Repeat Setup Wizard

Restart & Reset – Reset to Factory Default

Software Upgrade

• Check For New Update – Unity TV box connects to the Upgrade Server over the internet and
verifies if there is a different version of software than what is on the box currently
• Download Progress – Shows you the progress of the Download
• Update Now – Software can be updated once the download is completed

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