Quick start
Get to know your remote
Everything important in Forge TV works with the arrow keys, OK and Back. Pick a topic below when you need it — no need to read a long manual.
OK Select
Watch, open details or pause a movie.
Hold OK More
Open options. Hold for about half a second.
Back Return
Go back one step. Hold Back from a tab to return straight to live TV.
Choose what you want to do
Find and watch a channel
Open Live TV. Use ▲ ▼ to choose a channel and ◀ ▶ to move through programmes.
- OK on what's on now starts the channel; on another programme it opens details.
- 0–9 jumps to a channel number; CH+/CH− moves through channels.
- Hold OK on a channel for favourites, moving, renaming, hiding or choosing a different guide channel.
- ◀ from the channel names opens categories.
Controls while watching Live TV
- ▲ ▼ or CH+/CH−: change channel.
- OK or Info: show what's on; Hold ▶: full programme description.
- Back: return to the guide with your current channel selected.
- Hold OK or Blue: toggle the sports screen.
- Red or Zoom: change picture size.
- Hold ▼: open the player options (subtitles, audio, audio sync, speed and more). A quick tap of ▼ still changes channel.
- ⏪: start over on a channel that supports catch-up.
Customise remote shortcuts under Settings → Playback → Remote buttons.
Sports scores and finding matches
In the Sports tab, choose a sport, then a league, to see its games for the next week. ▶ moves across to the games and ◀ back to the sports.
- OK on a game lists the channels showing it. One on now starts straight away; one still to come opens the guide at that programme.
- Hold OK on a game to set a reminder on the channel you choose, or to follow either team or its league.
- Hold OK on a league to follow it. Everything you follow is listed together under My favourites at the top. Each profile keeps its own.
With the sports screen visible while watching:
- ▶ moves to other games; ▲ ▼ chooses a game.
- Hold OK on another game lists the channels showing it.
- ◀ or Back returns to your game; it also returns automatically after 20 seconds.
- Menu, or Hold ◀ without Menu, opens score-delay and spoiler controls.
Movies, TV shows and catch-up
- Browse posters using the arrows and press OK for a film or show's page, with its cast and a Trailer button when there is one.
- A film's page has Watch or Resume, Start over and Clear progress. A show's page plays or resumes the next episode in one press, and Episodes opens every season.
- In a movie or episode, OK pauses/plays; ◀ goes back 10 seconds and ▶ skips ahead 30 seconds.
- ▼, Hold OK or Menu opens audio, subtitle and playback settings; Back stops and saves your place.
- During catch-up TV, OK pauses/plays, ◀ ▶ skips by one minute and Stop returns to live.
Search, favourites and reminders
- Open Search to find channels, programmes, movies and shows in one place. Use the microphone if supported.
- In the guide, Hold OK on a channel to add it to Favourites or your own group. A group can hold channels from all your playlists, and shows whichever playlist is on.
- For a future programme, open its details and choose Remind me.
- For a sports game, Hold OK and select a reminder. Review reminders under Settings → Guide → Your reminders.
Settings and organising channels
In Settings, use ▲ ▼ to move through sections, ▶ to enter one, ◀ to return to the list, and OK to change a setting.
To reorder channels or categories, choose Move (or Hold OK in an ordering list), move with ▲ ▼, jump to the top/bottom with ▶ / ◀, then press OK to place it.
Channels stopping or not starting on an Xtream Codes playlist? Open Settings → Playlists, choose the playlist and switch its Live stream type to HLS. Each playlist keeps its own.
Moving to a new TV? Settings → Backup saves everything to one file. The whole file is checked before a restore changes anything.
Remember: Buttons vary between remotes. Forge TV is designed to work with the D-pad, OK and Back even without dedicated shortcut buttons.
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