Introduction
Digital Signal and Sound
The analog television broadcast system that has been used in the United States for the past 50 years transmits signals as electronic waves. These waves can suffer degradation as the signal travels to your home. Additionally, the analog waves are susceptible to interference from planes passing overhead, weather, and household appliances.
Digital signals, in contrast to analog signals, can be reproduced precisely because the images are transmitted and received using the computer language of 1s and 0s. Such precision yields a signal that is capable of displaying
Part 3: Other Key Features of owning an RCA HDTV
There are other HDTV’s on the market- even some that use DLP technology. But your RCA HDTV has been designed with features that will enhance your TV viewing experience, and features that provide flexibility to build on the digital revolution that is taking place. A summary of your TV’s most unique features follows. Go to Chapter 3 for more details on these and additional features.
Integrated HDTV Tuner with Digital Cable Ready QAM
RCA was the first to offer an integrated tuner with its HDTVs (which means there is no need for another box to receive digital programming). Now, we’ve gone one better— your HDTV’s tuner is digital cable ready (no need for a cable box to view unscrambled digital cable programming). The CableCARD™ slot on your HDTV allows you to use a digital cable card to access digital cable. The tuner is able to decode all 35 formats of digital television broadcasts, and it can interpret unscrambled digital cable signals because it includes QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation).
Note: A digital cable card may be necessary to view scrambled (encrypted) channels. Contact your cable provider for more information. Go to page 18 for more information.
TruScan Digital Reality
The intelligent signal processing of TruScan Digital Reality recognizes incoming video signals and progressively converts them to achieve optimum digital picture performance. It also recognizes when original film sources have been modified and can automatically convert the analog frame rate back to its original format to bring out the
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1 Picture Settings
2 Picture Presets
3 Auto Color
4 Color Warmth
5 Noise Reduction
6 Green Stretch
7 Edge Enhancement
8 Contrast Expand
9 Advanced Settings
Main Menu Picture Quality |
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Vibrant (Day) | Contrast | 65% | |
Color | 70% | ||
Natural | |||
Tint | 55% | ||
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Cinematic (Night) | Black Level | 60% | |
Videogame | Sharpness | 55% | |
Professional | Auto Color | On | |
Color Warmth | Cool | ||
Personal | |||
Noise Reduction | Frame Comb | ||
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| Green Stretch | High | |
| Edge Enhancement | Low | |
| Contrast Expand | High | |
A change in this screen is applied to Input 3. |
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Press or to point to an option, then press OK to select it. Press to return to the menu.
User-friendly Features Help You Personalize Your TV
•You can customize your TV to fit your viewing taste and match the lighting where you watch TV by using Personal Presets and/or the automatic picture quality settings: Vibrant (Day), Natural, Cinematic (Night), Videogame, Professional. You can adjust each input to a different setting and the TV will automatically adjust the picture when you change inputs.
•Help Text: The elaborate,
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CableCARD is a registered trademark of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
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