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Here’s a tip to change the way you can view your Now Playing List and get a few options.

• Enter the Now Playing List.
• While in the list press: SLOW - 0 - RECORD - THUMBS UP
• Now when you press 1 you will view the default (sort by record date), 2 will sort by expiration and date, 3 will sort alphabetically

If you lose power or reboot your system you will need to go through this process again.

NOTE: If you have the “Folders” option turned on this will not work.

Here’s a quick tip for those DirecTV TiVo users out there.

If you’d like to enable the 30 second skip that TiVo took away (probably at the behest of the big media companies) after version 1.0, and, if you are running a DirecTV TiVo then here is a simple hack.

• Begin playing any recorded show.
• While the show is playing press: SELECT - PLAY - SELECT - 3 - 0 - SELECT.
• You should hear three tones which verifies the feature has been enabled.
• Use the ->| button to skip 30 seconds.

If you lose power or reboot your system you will need to go through this process again.

If you want to disable the skip feature you can repeat the same process.