FVP-5000T Search Box Characters

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  • January 10, 2021 at 5:29 pm #21496
    Anonymous
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    I am a newbie here as well as a recent owner of the 5000T and am disappointed with a couple of limited features compared to my previous box the HDR-2000T.

    However, I’m hoping it’s down to my lack of searching skills.

    I’ll stick to the title issue though.

    Pressing the search button on the remote brings up the search box on the TV screen. I wish to search on the word New: (Note the colon), as this will list all new programmes or episodes due to be transmitted as opposed to all programmes that contain the word New such as “BBC News”, “ITV Evening News” etc.

    My problem is I can’t find how to type the colon symbol (:) from the on screen options. It only seems to offer me letters or numbers.

    I’d be grateful if one of you could enlighten me if it’s possible to achieve this.

    Many thanks for taking the time to read this.

    January 10, 2021 at 5:48 pm #101539
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    I don’t believe you can use special characters.

    January 10, 2021 at 6:32 pm #101540
    Barry
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    Press the 1 key a few times for :

    January 10, 2021 at 8:21 pm #101541
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    Barry: Out of curiosity I tried that and all I got was 1111111, even though pressing quite quickly.

    January 10, 2021 at 8:36 pm #101542
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    A1944 – 12 mins ago  » 

    Barry: Out of curiosity I tried that and all I got was 1111111, even though pressing quite quickly.

    Barry is right, pressing the key with the number 1 on it several times gives you punctuation. You’re not selecting the on-screen 1 are you?

    January 10, 2021 at 9:10 pm #101543
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    Barry – 2 hours ago  » 

    Press the 1 key a few times for :

    Barry,

    Thank you so much, that worked perfectly.

    It takes be back to the time before predictive texting when you had to press each key repeatedly until you got the character you wanted on the screen

    Much obliged to you.

    January 10, 2021 at 9:13 pm #101544
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    A1944 – 49 mins ago  » 

    Barry: Out of curiosity I tried that and all I got was 1111111, even though pressing quite quickly.

    If it helps, Barry was talking about the remote control keypad rather than the on-screen keyboard.

    Thanks for trying though, and I hope it works for you too.

    January 10, 2021 at 10:35 pm #101545
    Anonymous
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    Thanks, I didn’t realise that Barry was talking about the remote keys, I thought he meant the on-screen keys which do have a “1”.

    January 11, 2021 at 2:35 am #101546
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    Barry – 8 hours ago  » 

    Press the 1 key a few times for :

    Cheers Barry.

    But what a completely non intuitive system, it would make far more sense to include the characters in the onscreen keyboard.

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