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CONTENTS OF THIS GUIDE About the DISH Network EZ Remote Control................... 3 Buttons and Features Overview........................................ 3 Installing Batteries.............................................................. 4 Receiver Upgrade ............................................................... 5 SettingUp toSwitchthe TVto Watch Satellite Programming......................................... 5 Connecting Your Satellite Receiver and TV ............... 6 Setting Up the Re
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ABOUT THE DISH NETWORK EZ REMOTE CONTROL The DISH Network EZ Remote Control makes operating your DISH Network satellite receiver easy and convenient. This remote control includes large, easy-to- find buttons which are most commonly used to control the basic satellite receiver features you need. In addition, the DISH Network EZ Remote Control lets you switch between satellite receiver programming and programming from an off-air antenna with the press of one button. BUTTONS AND FEATURES OVERVIEW F
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To use these added buttons and other features to control your TV, follow the step-by-step instructions below to set up your remote control. This setup also requires you to connect your satellite receiver to your TV’s tuner using coaxial cable. After completing your setup, see How to Use the Remote Control on page 25 for more details on each button. INSTALLING BATTERIES Before you can use the remote control, you must install four AAA batteries. Use batteries of the same grade, for example, alkali
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CONNECTING YOUR SATELLITE RECEIVER AND TV 1. Connect a coaxial cable between the TV Set Out on the satellite receiver and the tuner input on the TV (see Figure 2). Note: If you connect your TV a different way (for example, using yellow, red, and white audio/video RCA-type or S-Video cables), the feature to switch your TV to satellite programming using will not work. 2. Set on the back of the receiver to CH3. Note: If you prefer Channel 4, instructions are provided later to change this setting. N
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SETTING UPTHE REMOTE TO CONTROL YOUR TV 1. Find the brand name of your TV in the TV code tables starting on page 32. You will be referring to this location for codes in the instructions below. 2. Turn on your TV. SAT TV 3. Press and hold until both lights turn on (it takes about five seconds). TV 4. Release . light will flash. TV TV 5. Press . Notice light turns on and stays on. 6. Enter one of the three-digit codes for your TV from TV the TV code tables while light is on. Note: You have about 2
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Press and to change channels on your TV. VOL VOL Press to change the TV volume. If these buttons work, go on to the next section to set up . If not, pick another code for your TV brand from the TV Codestableandgobackto step 3. SETTING UPON YOUR REMOTE CONTROL 1. Make sure your TV and satellite receiver are connected and your remote control is set up to control your TV using the instructions in the last two sections. 2. Turn on your TV and tune to a channel other than 3 (for example, 4 or 5).
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7. Set the switch on the back of the satellite receiver to CH4. The TV will lose the picture from the satellite receiver, but this is OK. Note: If your satellite receiver does not have a switch, see your satellite receiver’s User’s Guide for how to set TV Set Out on the satellite receiver to channel 4. SAT TV 8. Press and hold until both lights turn on (it takes about five seconds). SAT 9. Release . light will flash. 10.Enter 0-4. SAT 11.Press MUTE while watching light. SAT 12. light will flash
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Table 1: How I Change My TV Channels Column 1: Column 2: How do you change your TV to Circle the number Channel 3 using the number sequence you use to buttons? change your TV to Channel 3 “I just press the number buttons on my remote to change the channel.” If you only press 3 on your 3 remote control to change the TV to Channel 3, circle the “3” to the right in Column 2 and go to step 16. “I have to enter a zero before the channel numbers.” If you press 0, 3 on your remote 0, 3 control to chang
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16.Write the number(s) you circled into the blank in step 19. SAT TV 17.Press and hold until both lights turn on (it takes about five seconds). SAT 18.Release . light will flash. 19.Press (Fill in this blank with the exact sequence you circled in Table 1) SAT 20.Press the MUTE button while watching light. SAT 21.If the light flashes three times, go to step 22. SAT If light does not flash at all, go back to step 17. 22.Press . If your TV tunes to Channel 3, go to step 23. If not, go back to step
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SETTING UPTO SWITCH THE TV TO A PREFERRED OFF-AIR CHANNEL If you watch local programming from an off-air antenna, follow these instructions to set up to switch your TV to your preferred off-air channel. You will need to connect your off-air antenna to your satellite receiver and then set up your remote control. Before you can do these instructions you must first complete Setting Up to Switch TV to Watch Satellite Programming on page 5. CONNECTING AN OFF-AIR ANTENNA TO YOUR SATELLITE RECEIVER 1.
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SETTING UPONTHE REMOTE CONTROL 1. In the blank below, write down your preferred off- air channel that you want your TV to tune to when you press . 2. If step 19 on page 11 is blank and was not used to set up , go to step 8. Otherwise, go to step 3. 3. In the blank below, write down the number sequence from step 19 on page 11. 4. If the number you wrote in step 1 is a 2-digit number: In the blank below, write the number sequence from step 3, except replace “ 3”or“ 0-3” with your 2-digit number fr
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CONNECTING YOUR SATELLITE RECEIVER, VCR, AND TV 1. Connect a coaxial cable between the TV Set Out on the satellite receiver and the tuner input to the VCR (see Figure 4). Note: If you connect your VCR a different way (for example, using yellow, red, and white audio/video RCA-type or S-Video cables), the feature to switch your VCR to pass satellite programming using will not work. 2. Look at the boxes you checked on page 8, 9, and 11. If you checked a box next to “ 3,” write “ 3” in the blank bel
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Step 3 Step 1 Step 4 Figure 4. Connecting a Satellite Receiver, VCR, and TV SETTING UPTHE REMOTE TO CONTROL YOUR VCR 1. Find the brand name of your VCR in the VCR code tables starting on page 39. You will be referring to this location for codes in the instructions below. 2. Turn on your VCR. SAT TV 3. Press and hold until both lights turn on (it takes about five seconds). 4. Release . TV light will flash. 5. Press the RECALL button. TV light turns on and stays on. 6. Enter one of the three-digit
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8. If TV light flashes three times, the code is valid and you can go to step 9. If TV light does not flash at all, the code may not have been entered correctly. So, start over from step 3 and try the code again. 9. Press while looking at the channel number display on your VCR. If the VCR is trying to change channels to the channel you wrote in step 2 on page 15, go on to the next section to set up for your VCR. If not, pick another code for your VCR brand from the VCR code tables and go back to
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6. Write the number in step 2 from page 15 into the blankinstep 10 below. SAT TV 7. Press and hold the until both lights turn on (it takes about five seconds). SAT 8. Release and light will flash. 9. Press the RECALL button. 10.Enter 0- . SAT 11.Press the MUTE button while watching light. SAT 12.If the light flashes three times, go to step 13. If SAT light does not flash, go to step 7 and try again. 13.Press . Make sure your VCR tunes to the channelinstep10. 14.Press the MENU button. If you see
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Table 2: How I Change My VCR Channels Column 1: Column 2: How do you change your VCR Circle the number to Channel 3 using the number sequence you use to buttons? change your VCR to Channel 3 “I just press the number buttons on my remote to change the channel.” 3 If you only press 3 on your remote control to change the VCR to Channel 3, circle the “3” totherightinColumn2andgoto step 16. “I have to enter a zero before the channel numbers.” If you press 0, 3 on your remote 0, 3 control to change th
