It can be used either instead of, or together with, the video you want to do more with favourites than is shown in the video, or if you just prefer text instructions to videos.
Favourites and bouquets
By default, the T3 has 3 favourites lists that can be accesses in TV (rather than Radio) mode:
- Terrestrial TV LCN - all scanned TV services
- Favourites (TV) - empty
- Last Scanned - all scanned services, both TV and radio.
Favourites lists allow you to group services together, to hide services that you're not interested in and/or to order them in the way you want (e.g. put all services from the same broadcaster together in the list).
Using a Favourites list (or other bouquet)
Press TV from Live TV, or press BLUE Favourites from the channel list (FAV from Live TV).
Navigate to the Favourites list you want to use, and press OK.
Then navigate to any service in the list and press OK. If you have MENU>Setup>TV>Channel selection>Channel list preview set to ON, press OK again.
The Favourites list will now be selected for use in the channel list and in the EPG.
Pressing EXIT will cancel the Favourites list change and leave you in the Favourites list you were previously using.
Only the services in the Favourites list will appear in the channel list and EPG, and they will appear in the order they appear in the Favourites list.
There are other bouquets you can access from the list of Favourites lists (FAV or TV from Live TV) or from the channel list (UP or DOWN from Live TV) by pressing RED All, GREEN Satellites (which, oddly, also allows access to terrestrial broadcast services) and YELLOW Provider (select only the services from a particular broadcaster).
Creating a new empty Favourites list
Press TV from Live TV, or press BLUE Favourites from the channel list (FAV from Live TV).
Press MENU, and select "add bouquet" from the menu. You'll get a popup box to allow you to name the new Favourites list.
Adding services to a Favourites list
Press TV from Live TV, or press BLUE Favourites from the channel list (FAV from Live TV).
Navigate to a Favourites list that contains the services you want to add to (another) Favourites list and press OK. Terrestrial TV LCN is usually a good choice for this.
Then, for each service you want to add to a favourites list, navigate to the service you want to add, press MENU, and select "add service to bouquet".
You'll then get a menu with a list of all the Favourites lists. Navigate to the one you want to add the service to, and press OK. Keep doing this until you've added all the services you want in the Favourites list. The services will appear in the service list in the order you add them. If you make a mistake, don't worry, see the next section "Making changes to a Favourites list".
Making changes to a Favourites list
If you want to add services to an existing Favourites list, see above, "Adding services to a Favourites list". New services will be added at the end of the list. If that's not where you want them, read on.
Press TV from Live TV, or press BLUE Favourites from the channel list (FAV from Live TV).
Navigate to a Favourites list that you want to change and press OK.
Navigate to the service you want to change, then press MENU and select "rename entry" to change the name of an entry in the Favourites list, "remove entry" to remove a service from the Favourites list or "enable move mode" to reorder the Favourites list.
In move mode, you'll see a screen like the normal channel list for the Favourites list, except that it will be named "(TV) [move mode] NameOfFavouritesList".
In this mode, OK selects/deselects a service for moving. When you first enter move mode, the service you are currently highlighting may already be selected for moving. Press OK to deselect it if you want to move a different service. When a service is selected for moving, its text changes from white to dark red, and UP and DOWN move the selected service with the highlight. When the service is deselected for moving its text changes back to white and the highlight moves without moving the service.
Once a service is selected for moving (its text will be dark red) use UP and DOWN to move the selected item to where it should be, then press OK again to deselect it and leave it in the new position. If you want to move more services, navigate to the next one to be moved, press OK and proceed as before. Continue doing this until the list is in the order you want, then press MENU and select "disable move mode" to complete the changes.
It is strongly recommended that you do not delete or move entries in the Terrestrial TV LCN bouquet!
It is likely that the changes will just make a mess of the bouquet. Some people try to change this bouquet to reorder it into a more logical
order (e.g. group services by broadcaster) while maintaining the LCNs. Unfortunately this won't work. In fact, no matter how you try to do it, it's not possible to reorder a bouquet (any bouquet) so that it is both in an arbitrary order and it preserves the LCN numbering. The numbering in bouquets always increases down the list. The Terrestrial TV LCN bouquet only appears to use LCN numbering because it contains automatically-generated padding entries, which increase the number by one for each padding entry, but the padding entries don't appear on the screen. The presence of padding entries seems to make moves and deletes behave in unexpected ways.
Making changes to the list of Favourites lists
Press TV from Live TV, or press BLUE Favourites from the channel list (FAV from Live TV).
The MENU for this screen has "rename entry" , "remove entry" and "enable move mode" which act in a similar way to the same menu items in the menu within a Favourites list.
For more discussion of favourites lists, see also Channel Favourites