RCA RM2100 User Manual

MSN®TV SERVICE

USER

GUIDE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

MSN TV service in 20 minutes or less . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Turning on the Internet Receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Getting around using select-and-OK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

The Back button: Getting back where you were . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

The Home button: Getting Home from anywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

The Home page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Home at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Using Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Visiting Web sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Going directly to a Web site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

E-mail — Sending mail on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

E-mail at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Reading your e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Writing an e-mail message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

E-mail addresses vs. Web addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Correcting spelling errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Using the Address book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Adding an address to the Address book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Addressing a message using the Address book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Editing your messages: cut, copy, and paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Copying text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Cutting (removing) text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Pasting cut or copied text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Visiting and creating Web sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

The Home page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Searching the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Search tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Going directly to a Web site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

The Options Panel — shortcuts to MSN TV features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Favorites — Creating a collection of your favorite Web sites . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Adding a Web site to your Favorites collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Visiting a Web site in your Favorites folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Shopping on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Passport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Publishing your own Web page with MSN TV service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Creating a Web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Editing an existing Web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Printing a Web page or e-mail message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Discussion groups, chat rooms, and MSN Messenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Discussion groups, chat rooms, and Messenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Discussion groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Joining a discussion group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Posting a new topic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Posting a response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Chat rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Joining an existing chat room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Making side comments: “whispering” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Creating a new chat room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Messenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Sending an instant message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Adding a buddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Responding to invitations to become a buddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Controlling who can contact you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Blocking someone from sending you instant messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Removing someone from your buddy list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Your MSN TV service Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Account options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Billing information and payment options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Viewing your billing statements online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Payment options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Adding users to your account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Updates — Getting the latest features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Using an ISP to connect to MSN TV service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

MSN®TV SERVICE IN

20MINUTES

OR LESS

· Turning on the Receiver

· Basics

· The Home Page

· Using E-mail

· Visiting Web sites

· Getting Help

In this chapter you’ll find everything you need to start exploring the MSN

TV service. For an overview of the service’s features, just read the sections of this chapter in order, try the suggested steps, and check out all the cool things to see.

TURNING ON THE INTERNET RECEIVER

This guide assumes that you have already set up your Internet Receiver and signed up for the MSN

TV service using the instructions in the Setup Guide. If

you haven’t, do so now. Then return to this guide to start using the service.

You need to use two remote controls to start using your Internet Receiver:

· The Internet Receiver’s remote control (or the wireless keyboard)

· Your television’s remote control

Depending on your setup, you might also need your VCR’s remote control.

NOTE: As your MSN TV service is upgraded, you may see pages that have

changed or you may have access to features that are not documented in this guide. While future changes may render sections of this guide out of date, you can always get the latest instructions f r om the o n -screen help available throughout the MSN TV service. See “Getting Help” on p 19.

To start using the Internet Receiver: 1 Turn on your television.

2 Press the MSN TV button on your Internet Receiver’s remote control, then

press the ON-OFF button. The first time you turn on your Internet Receiver after signing up for the

service, you see a short series of instructional pages. After you finish these pages, your Home page appears.

This page is your “Home” page. From here you can access all of the features of the MSN TV service.

BASICS

To get from page to page using the MSN TV service, you need to know just one simple rule: select-and-OK.

Getting around using select-and-OK

The places you can go in the MSN TV service are represented by words and pictures on your screen. When you see something interesting on your screen, you tell your Internet Receiver to take you there using the simple select-and-OK technique:

First you “select” the item. Use the Arrow buttons on your remote control or the Arrow keys on your wireless keyboard to move the yellow box until it surrounds the item. (Both the remote control and the keyboard have Arrows; you can use either.)

Then you press the OK button on your remote control or the Return key if you are using a wireless keyboard.

Now let’s try it: 1 Starting from the Home page, use the Arrow buttons on your remote

control or keyboard to move the yellow box to the word “E-mail” near the top-left corner of the page.

Placing the yellow box around an item is called “selecting” it.

2 Press the OK button (or the Return key on the keyboard).

That’s it! By pressing the OK button, you told the MSN TV service to take you to the Mail page. The yellow box turns green for a moment to confirm your button press.

It takes a few seconds for the page to appear. Also, you might see some instructional pages before you get to the Mail page. Once you finish these pages, the Mail page appears.

The Back button: Getting back where you were

Now that you know how to use select-and-OK to move from page to page, you need to know how to get back to where you started. That’s easy; just press the Back button on your remote control or keyboard.

Pressing Back takes you to the last page you saw.

Try it now: 1 Press the Back button on your remote control or keyboard.

The last page you saw appears — in this case, your Home page.

The Home button: Getting Home from anywhere

Like the Back button, you use the Home-Clear button to move around. The Home-Clear button takes you directly to the Home page from any page. There

is a Home key on the keyboard and a Home-Clear button on the remote control. The Back and Home buttons make sure you never get lost. You can always go

back one page or go Home with just the press of a button.

THE HOME PAGE

The Home page is the starting point for all of your MSN TV service journeys. Here’s a quick look at the features of the Home page.

If you are not already on your Home page, press the Home-Clear button on your remote control or the Home key on your keyboard

NOTE: If you stay on one page for a while, you might have to reconnect to the

MSN TV service before you can move to another page. When this happens, this message appears on your screen. To continue, press OK or Return. Then wait while your Internet Receiver reconnects to the MSN TV service.

Home at a glance

Search the Web by category.

Send or receive e-mail

Go to TV listings for your local channels and cable or satellite providers.

Go to featured links.

Collect your favorite Web sites.

Switch to another user.

Go to information centers on a variety of topics.

Join chat groups.

Change your password, add users, and change other settings.

Exchange instant online messages with your friends.

Search the Web or go directly to a Web site.

View or change account information.

Go to detailed instructions on all MSN TV service features.

USING MAIL

Now that you’ve taken a quick look at the Home page, let’s dig a little deeper. One of the most popular and powerful features of the Internet is e-mail. The MSN TV service provides an e-mail program that lets you exchange messages on the Internet with anyone who has an e-mail address.

Let’s take a look at the features of the Mail page. 1 If you’re not already there, go to the Home page.

If you’re not sure how to get to the Home page, see page 9.

Select E-mail, then press OK or Return when you want to write an e-mail message.

2 Select E-mail from the top of the page, then press the OK button or

Return key.

The first time you access E-mail, you see a few instructional pages about th e features of E-mail. When you finish these pages, the Mail list page appears.

This page is your starting point for all E-mail activities, such as reading your mail, writing a new message, or managing your Address book.

Use Write when you want to compose a message.

Use Clean up to save or get rid of old messages.

Use Addresses to go to your Address book — a place to store e-mail addresses so you don’t have to memorize them.

Use Settings to personalize the way your Mail service looks and works.

This is your Mail list — the list of e-mail messages sent to you.

Use Help for a beginner’s overview, detailed instructions, and frequently asked questions about E-mail.

Now let’s read your e-mail.

New subscribers receive a greeting e-mail. Let’s take a look at it.

1 Move the yellow box to select the welcome message from your Mail list.

Then press OK or Return. The selected message appears. Go ahead and look through the message. You don’t need to read it all now.

It will stay in your Mail list until you discard it, so you can always go back to it later.

When you get to the bottom of the screen, use the Scroll Down button on your remote control or keyboard to see the text hidden off the bottom of the screen.

2 When you decide to stop reading, select Mail list from the left side of the

page, then press OK or Return. You return to the main E-mail page. From there you could select another

message to read, write a new message, or use any of the other E-mail features. For now, let’s move on. There’s much more to see!

3 Press the Home button on your remote control or keyboard.

You return to the the Home page.

The Home button always takes you back to the Home page. If you ever feel lost, just press Home.

You’ve seen the Home page and you’ve taken a quick look at Mail. Now let’s venture out onto the Web.

VISITING WEB SITES

The Web is a collection of pages put on the Internet by individuals, corporations, governments, and organizations of all kinds from every part of the world. You can find Web pages dedicated to almost every topic imaginable, and you can find places to purchase products of almost every kind.

There are two main ways to find Web pages:

· You can use Search, a tool that finds Web pages about topics that you specify.

· You can go directly to a Web page if you know its address (the

www.address.com style address).

Let’s try it. We’ll start by searching for a Web site: 1 If you’re not already there, go to the Home page.

2 Make sure the yellow selection box is on the text box labeled “Type search

words or a Web address.” Using your wireless keyboard, type the phrase antique auto show, then press Return.

Type a word, phrase, or question here.

When you go to the Home page, the yellow selection box is around this text box. A text box is a place for you to type. In this case, you can type a word or phrase for the Search tool to look up.

NOTE: If you don’t have your wireless keyboard handy, you can type in the

text box using the on-screen keyboard. To display the on-screen keyboard, press the OK button on your remote control anytime the yellow box is around a text box. Once the keyboard appears, use the Arrow and OK buttons on your remote control to choose letters one at a time until you have completed your entry. Then select continue from the top of the on-screen keyboard and press the OK button on your remote.

If you need to type more than a few words, you should use the wireless keyboard instead of the on-screen keyboard.

After you type a phrase and press Return, you see a list of all the sites the Search tool found on the topic you entered. This list is called the “search results.”

3 Look through the search results. Scroll down if necessary to see the rest of

the search results page. If there is more than one page of results for your search, you’ll see a next button on the right-hand side of the page. Select this button and press Return to see the next page of results.

Select any site from the list that looks interesting, then press Return. The Web site you selected appears. From there you can use the Back button to return to the search results list

and try another site, or you can use the Home button to return to the Home page. For now, let’s go Home.

4 Press Home on your remote control or keyboard.

The Home page appears.

TIP: To find exactly what you’re looking for, be sure to type specific search

phrases. For example, if you’re looking for a place to stay in Atlanta, you should search for lodging in Atlanta. If you just typed Atlanta or lodging, your results would be too broad and general to be useful. If your first search doesn’t succeed, try another phrase (for example, Atlanta hotels).

To search by category: 1 Select Search near the top left corner of the Home page, then press OK or

Return (or simply press the Search button on your keyboard).

The Search page appears.

2 Choose a search category from the list on the Search page.

Going directly to a Web site

You’ve used the Search tool to find Web sites on a topic. Now let’s go directly to a Web site by entering its Web address.

Web addresses (which look like this: www.msn.com or www.msnbc.com) are the addresses the Web uses to locate specific Web sites.

You’ll often hear Web addresses (also known as URLs, or Uniform Resource Locators) in TV and radio programs, and you’ll find them in many advertisements. When you hear about an interesting Web site, you can go directly to that site (without having to search for it) by entering its address.

To enter a Web site’s address from the Home page: 1 If you’re not already there, go to the Home page.

2 Make sure the yellow selection box is on the text box labeled “Type search

words or a Web address.” Using your wireless keyboard, type the address of a Web site you wish to visit (for this example, type www.msnbc.com to go to the MSNBC Web site), then press Return.

After a short time, the Web site you requested appears.

If you’re not at the Home page, you can use the Options panel to enter a Web site’s address.

To enter a Web site’s address using the Options panel: 1 Press the Menu-Options button on your remote control or the Options button

on your keyboard. The Options panel pops up from the bottom of the screen.

2 Select the on-screen go to button from the Options panel, then press

OK or Return.

The go to button

A box appears where you can type the address for the Web site you wish to visit. (To save time, you can go directly to this box by pressing the Go To button on your keyboard.) We’ll visit the MSNBC Web site at the address www.msnbc.com.

4 Type www.msnbc.com

Note that the first part of the address (http://) is already filled in for you. Just type the part of the address that starts with “www.” You can use the wireless keyboard or the on-screen keyboard to type this text.

5 Press Return (or select continue and press OK if you are using the

on-screen keyboard). After a few moments, you’ll see MSNBC’s Web site at the address

www.msnbc.com. You can use the go to button on the Options panel to go to any Web address.

From the MSNBC Web page, as from any Web page, you can use the Back button on your remote control or keyboard to return to the page you just left or use the Home-Clear button to go to the Home page.

You’ve looked at the Home page, e-mail, and some Web pages. Now let’s take a look at the Help feature of your MSN TV service.

GETTING HELP

You’ve seen the Home page, e-mail, and Web sites. That’s a good star t, but as you might guess, there’s a lot more to see.

To find out more about the MSN TV service:

· Skim, browse, or read the rest of this guide to see all the features in more

detail.

· Take advantage of the on-screen instructions in the Help options on the

Home page and most of the other pages in the MSN TV service. Help provides comprehensive guides that offer beginner’s tours, detailed step-by-step instructions, and answers to frequently asked questions.

Help provides everything you need to know about the MSN TV service. In fact, useful Help is available from almost every page in the service.

· Or, you can simply start exploring. You know how to select an item and press

OK or Return. You know how to use the Home-Clear button and the Back

button. So you really can’t get lost!

Have fun!

E-MAIL

SENDING MAIL ON THE INTERNET

· E-mail at a glance

· Reading your e-mail

· Writing an e-mail message

· Using the Address book

· Editing messages: cut, copy, and paste

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