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Using the SlingPlayer Progam Guide to Easily Find and Change Channels
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The SlingPlayer Guide is an easy way for you to see what's on. It's an interactive guide, customized specifically for the program sources (satellite, cable, or digital over-the-air) in your area.
With the SlingPlayer Guide, you can:
- See what's on right now
- See what'll be on in the future
- Get a quick summary of program info
- Switch to that program
The SlingPlayer Guide is a grid that uses columns to represent program times, and rows to show the programs for each channel. The left-most column shows the programs that are on right now. (The SlingPlayer Guide automatically advances every half hour.) You can also set up Favorites, which are the channels that you like to watch most often.
You can change channels any of three ways:
- Double-clicking the show that you want to see in the SlingPlayer Guide. (If the program hasn't started yet, you'll get a message telling you.)
- Using SlingRemote
- Pressing the channel numbers on your computer's keyboard.
With the SlingPlayer Guide, you'll always know what's on ... now, and in the future.
To search for programs: With the SlingPlayer Guide window open, just start typing the first few characters of what you're searching for. SlingPlayer Guide jumps to the listing closest to what you typed.
Here's what else you can do with the SlingPlayer Guide:
| 1 | Favorites drop-down list | Click the SlingPlayer Guide Favorites drop-down list to display just your Favorites lists, all channels, or just the channels that you receive. You can also use this control for creating, editing, renaming, and deleting your Favorites lists. |
| 2 | Current date and time | No need to have a clock nearby! You can also click this date/time indicator to jump back to the present time when you're finished exploring future program listings. |
| 3 | Current channel | The current channel, station, and day/time slot that you're currently watching. |
| 4 | Program info | Summary info on the program you're watching: the show's title, plus a summary of the content (if available). You can also see this summary if you move your pointer over a SlingPlayer Guide listing. |
| 5 | Channels list | List of channels that are available to you, based on the service you set up in the SlingPlayer Setup Assistant. (You can use the Setup Assistant to change your lineup if it's incorrrect.) Some channels may be premium channels that you can't watch without a subscription. |
| 6 | Program summary | To see more info about a program (which episode it is, who the guest is, and so on) move your mouse pointer over that entry. If the info is available, a summary pop-up appears. |
| 7 | Now playing | The show that is currently playing is highlighted within the list. |
| 8 | Scroll controls | Scroll up/down to see more channels, and scroll left/right to see programs at different times of the day. |
| 9 | Day control | Click the gray down-arrow to jump quickly anywhere from one to six days in the future. |
From the SlingPlayer help files. Formatted and submitted by Brandon C.
September 12, 2008 6:57 AM
What do you do if you notice one single channel is missing from the guide?
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September 12, 2008 9:03 AM
When asking for setup help please include whether you are using a PC or Mac and if you are using the Standalone Slingplayer or the web based setup program.
The information come from Zap2It so they must have missed something. I would go to their website and try the browser search for the same thing and see if it comes up missing. If so you could notify them.
September 19, 2008 2:32 PM
Strange, no program guide in the Canadian version, but I can view Canadian channel lineups in my zap2it.com account with no problems. I hope it's there in the 2.0 final version.
September 20, 2008 10:33 PM
I've been using the new SlingPlayer 2.0 beta for a while. I have to say, while the player is great, and the guide is a nice addition, it's also missing a LOT of channels.
The guide for Austin's Time Warner is missing about 50% of the HD channels and untold SD channels (I haven't even bothered to try to count those).
Sling, you need to get with the ZAP guys and get the guide in sync with the actual list of available programs otherwise it's usefulness is very limited.
October 3, 2008 12:52 AM
Can anyone tell me when this version of sling media that includes the program guide will be released in the UK.
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February 26, 2009 10:20 AM
I love Zap2it. thanks Sling. Are u going to include Zap2it on the Slingcatcher too. That would be great
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February 26, 2009 5:58 PM
updated: February 26, 2009 6:00 PM
powel said: I love Zap2it. thanks Sling. Are u going to include Zap2it on the Slingcatcher too. That would be great
Yes, This would be great.
When 2.0 was first release the program guide was really buggy and no one liked it. But it looks to me they corrected some of the problems and may be worth a second look by some people.
May 30, 2009 12:50 AM
is the slingplayer guide still available?? if so, how? its not in the player download
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May 30, 2009 6:09 PM
When asking for setup help please include whether you are using a PC or Mac and if you are using the Standalone Slingplayer or the web based setup program.
Need to be running SlingPlayer 2.0.x.xx and click on the little icon of a TV on top/right
June 8, 2009 2:09 PM
The new channel guide is unreadable from across the room. I am watching on a 42
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