Navigating through your Optik TV experience

Optik TV will automatically launch once you turn on your TELUS TV HD/4K Set Top Box or an HD/4K Digital Box.

Once it launches, you can easily access all your content with a navigation menu at the top of your screen. You can use your TELUS TV remote to navigate through Optik TV.

Learn more about your TELUS TV remote at

telus.com/TVRemoteSupport

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Your Home screen gives you quick access to the shows and movies you want to watch the moment you turn on your TV. When you turn on Optik TV, your Home screen will appear. You can also access the Home screen at any time by pressing the left arrow on your remote while watching live TV.

Your Home screen gives you a quick way to discover and access content you care about as soon as you turn on your Optik TV. The Home screen allows you to:

The Optik TV Home screen is turned on by default, but can be easily disabled and re-enabled

To disable the Home screen:

To re-enable the Home screen:

If you have parental controls active, they will be applied to your Home screen.

We invite you to share feedback and get additional support on our community forum,

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shows you the top five shows being watched in your region at that moment (based on what other customers in your region are watching in real time). 

The feature:

To use , please follow the steps below:

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You can use search to quickly find a TV show, an On Demand title, Pay Per View event or within streaming apps such as Prime Video, Netflix or hayu* (universal search).

To learn how to use Optik’s feature, please watch the following video, or follow the steps below:

Instructions on how to use :

: Quickly search by using the number keypad on your remote to spell the name of the person or program you’re looking for. For example, to search for a title containing the letter , press the number key twice.

: Prime Video is included in an Amazon Prime membership. Restrictions apply. See

primevideo.com/terms

for details. Amazon, Prime Video and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

The on Optik TV has a variety of features that make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for.

You can view programs in three different views:

You can choose which guide view you prefer in the in your on-screen settings.

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You can also choose between viewing a list of your five recently viewed channels, or navigating directly to the last-viewed channel by following these steps:

There are many ways to customize your Optik TV onscreen guide to better organize and group channels by , or setting it to only view channels that you’re subscribed to.

Categories are channels grouped by subject matter, genre or other qualities. When you select a category, only its channels will appear in the guide.

To view by channel category:

You can customize your onscreen guide to display only the channels that you're subscribed to:

Your onscreen guide will now display only the channels that you’re subscribed to.

If you would like to see all available channels again, including channels that you’re not subscribed to:

Your onscreen guide will now display all channels.

If you are not able to see some of the channels you are subscribed to in the guide:

Live filters let you temporarily filter your content by genre. To turn this feature on:

A list of filtered content options will be displayed.

Another way to customize your onscreen guide is to display only the channels that are on your list. A separate list can be created on each digital box.

To create your list:

A green checkmark will appear next to the channels that are included in your list.

To access your list:

To edit your list(s):

To re-name or delete the list:

To delete the list:

Learn how to change your Optik TV Digital Box name to cast content

: Casting content from a mobile device is only available with 4K digital boxes.

The content casting feature lets you watch content from your mobile devices on your TV. If you use this feature, you will see a list of devices you can connect to. So that you can easily select the TV where you want to watch this content, you can modify the name of your Optik TV Digital Box.

Here are the steps you’ll need to follow: