Other useful features
Time shift
This function enables you to pause the digital TV programme you are watching and start watching it again from the paused scene.
1Press READY.
•The TV starts temporary recording of the real time broadcast in the background.
2Press I.
•The TV shows the programme from the scene that the TV started recording and the recording carries on.
•When the TV again playbacks after once pressing Hto stop the programme, the TV shows the programme from the stopped scene.
Buttons for time shift operation
Buttons |
| Description |
| Start recording the programme you are | |
| watching. | |
READY | • | You cannot playback the recorded |
| programme until approximately three | |
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| seconds after pressing READY to start |
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| recording. |
IPlayback the recorded programme.
Stop the programme in playback (time
Hshift recording continues) and go back to the real time broadcast (live).
Pause the programme in playback (time
Fshift recording continues).
• This function is released in 15 minutes.
SReverse (each time you press this button, the reverse speed changes in three levels).
Fast forward (each time you press this
Jbutton, the fast forward speed changes in three levels).
aPlayback after jumping backwards by 10 seconds.
bPlayback after jumping forward by 30 seconds.
CONTROL*1 | Activate the control panel. |
c*2 | Playback will resume after jumping |
backwards by the time interval you set in | |
| “Jump time setting” (Page 51). |
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d*2 | Playback will resume after jumping forward |
by the time interval you set in “Jump time | |
| setting” (Page 51). |
IThe CONTROL button is only available on the remote control unit.
JThe cand dbuttons are only available on the control panel.
NOTE
•Instead of pressing buttons on the remote control unit, most of the operations shown to the left are also available on the screen with the control panel. You can call up this control panel by pressing CONTROL on the remote control unit or select “Control (Time shift)” from “Option” > “Option for view”.
•The control panel for time shift displays only during time shift operation.
•The “Audio description setting” menu does not work during time shift playback.
•When the amount of memory used for time shift reaches
“Full” and the blue point is around the left edge of the bar (see and in the Counter section on page 50), you cannot operate some functions (F(Pause), S(Reverse), a(Jumping backwards by 10 seconds), c(Jumping backwards by the time interval you set in “Jump time setting” (Page 51)).
•Time shift recording stops if no operation detected for three hours.
•Time shift does not work for ATV, external inputs, data broadcasts and radio broadcasts.
•To release time shift, press READY, change the DTV channel, change “INPUT” or turn off the power of the TV.
•Time shift will be released if no operations are performed for three hours.
•Some functions do not work during time shift.
•Time shift is not actually a recording function, so the recorded data is reset when you exit time shift.
•Time shift does not work automatically, it starts only when you press READY.
•The password is required when you use the buttons such as S, J, a, b, c, dif you set the password and any options for “Parental rating” except “No block” are selected.
•Time shift does not work for any copy protected programmes.
•For certain signals, resolution may be reduced during time shift playback.
•Do not disconnect the USB storage device used for time shift during time shift operation.
•The “HOME” screen cannot be displayed during Time shift.
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