Contents | Toshiba 42LX177 specification

Contents
Important Safety Instructions	3
Installation, Care, and Service	3
Chapter 1: Introduction	9

Welcome to Toshiba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Features of your new TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Overview of steps for installing, setting up, and using

your new TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 TV front and side panel controls and connections . . . . . . . . 11 TV back panel connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Chapter 2: Connecting your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Overview of cable types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 About the connection illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting a VCR and antenna or Cable TV

(no Cable box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting a VCR with S-video and a cable box . . . . . . . . 16 Connecting a DVD player with ColorStream®

(component video), a VCR, and a satellite receiver. . . . 17 Connecting a device to the IR OUT infrared terminal

using the IR blaster cable for IR pass-through device control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting an IR receiver/repeater control system to the

IR IN infrared terminal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting a camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting an HDMI™ or DVI device to the HDMI

input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 CE-Link connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting a digital audio system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting an audio system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting a personal computer (PC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Connecting a home network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chapter 3: Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Installing the remote control batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Remote control effective range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Learning about the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Remote Control functional key chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Using the remote control to operate your other devices . . . . 31 Programming the remote control to operate your other

devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Device code setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Searching and sampling the code of a device

(8500) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using the volume lock feature (8000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Operational feature reset (8900). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Multi-brand remote control device codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Chapter 4: Menu layout and navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Main menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Setup/Installation menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 THINC™ menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Navigating the menu system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Chapter 5: Setting up your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Setting the Demo Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Selecting the menu language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Configuring the antenna input source for the ANT

terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Programming channels into the TV’s channel memory . . . . 44 Programming channels automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Manually adding and deleting channels in the channel memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Setting the Auto Input feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Labeling channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Setting the HDMI™ audio mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Viewing the digital signal meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Viewing the system status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Selecting the Power-On Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Selecting the Demo Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Chapter 6: Using the TV’s features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Selecting the video input source to view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Labeling the video input sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Tuning channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Tuning channels using the Channel Browser™ . . . . . . . 53 Tuning to the next programmed channel . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Tuning to a specific channel

(programmed or unprogrammed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Switching between two channels using Channel

Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Switching between two channels using SurfLock™. . . . 55 Selecting the picture size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Scrolling the TheaterWide® picture

(TheaterWide 2 and 3 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Using the auto aspect ratio feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Using the FREEZE feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Using the POP features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Using the POP double-window feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Selecting the POP window audio out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Adjusting the picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Selecting the picture mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Adjusting the picture quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Using the TheaterLock™ feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Using the closed caption mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Base closed captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Digital CC Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 CC Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Using the Closed Caption button on the remote

control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Adjusting the audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Muting the sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Using the digital audio selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Selecting stereo/SAP broadcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Adjusting the audio quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Using the StableSound® feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Turning off the built-in speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Selecting the optical audio output format . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Using the Dolby® Digital Dynamic Range Control feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Using the Locks menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Entering the PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 If you cannot remember your PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Changing your PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Blocking TV programs and movies by rating

(V-Chip) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Downloading an additional rating system for blocking

TV programs and movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Blocking channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Unlocking programs temporarily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Using the input lock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Using the GameTimer® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Using the control panel lock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Using the PC settings feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Setting the PC Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Setting the sleep timer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Using CE-Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

CE-Link playback device (HD DVD player, etc.) control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

CE-Link input source selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Audio Receiver VOLUME and MUTE control . . . . . . . 74 Other CE-Link functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Using the HDMI settings feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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