Contents |
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Important Safety Instructions | 3 |
Installation, Care, and Service | 3 |
Chapter 1: Introduction | 9 |
Features of your new TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Overview of steps for installing, setting up, and using
your new TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 TV front and side panel controls and connections . . . . . . . . 10 TV back panel connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 2: Connecting your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Overview of cable types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 About the connection illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Connecting a VCR (or a VCR with
Cable TV or Camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting a DVD player with ColorStream® (component
video), a VCR, and a satellite receiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting a device to the IR OUT infrared terminal
using the IR blaster cable for IR
Connecting an HDMI™ or DVI device to the HDMI input . 16
Chapter 3: Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Preparing the remote control for use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Installing the remote control batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Learning about the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Remote Control functional key chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Using the remote control to operate your other devices . . . . 24 Programming the remote control to operate your other
devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Device code setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Searching and sampling the code of a device (8500). . . 25 Using the volume lock feature (8000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Operational feature reset (8900). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chapter 4: Menu layout and navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Main menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Setup/Installation menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 THINC™ menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Navigating the menu system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Chapter 5: Setting up your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Setting the Demo Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Selecting the menu language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Configuring the input source for the
ANT/CABLE terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Programming channels into the TV’s channel memory . . . . 36 Programming channels automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Manually adding and deleting channels in the channel memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Setting the Auto Input feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Labeling channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Setting the HDMI™ audio mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Viewing the digital signal meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Setting the time zone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Viewing the system status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Selecting the Blue LED Illumination level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Selecting the
Chapter 6: Using the TV’s features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Selecting the video input source to view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Labeling the video input sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Tuning channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Tuning channels using the Channel Browser™ . . . . . . . 42 Setting the Channel Tuning Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Tuning to the next programmed channel . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Tuning to a specific channel (programmed or unprogrammed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Switching between two channels using Channel
Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Switching between two channels using SurfLock™. . . . 45 Selecting the picture size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Scrolling the TheaterWide® picture
(TheaterWide 2 and 3 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Using the auto aspect ratio feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Using the FREEZE feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Adjusting the picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Selecting the picture mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Adjusting the picture quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Using the TheaterLock™ feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Using the closed caption mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Base closed captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Digital CC Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 CC Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the Closed Caption button on the remote
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Adjusting the audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Muting the sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Using the digital audio selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Selecting stereo/SAP broadcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Adjusting the audio quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Using the StableSound® feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Selecting the optical audio output format . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using the Dolby® Digital Dynamic Range Control feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using the Locks menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Entering the PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 If you cannot remember your PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Changing your PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Blocking TV programs and movies by rating
TV programs and movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Blocking channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Unlocking programs temporarily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Using the input lock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Using the GameTimer® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Using the control panel lock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using the PC settings feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Setting the PC Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Setting the sleep timer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Using
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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