Contents | Toshiba 42LX196 specs

FCC Declaration of Conformity Compliance Statement

(Part 15): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Important notes about your LCD TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Trademark Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chapter 1: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Welcome to Toshiba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Features of your new TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Overview of steps for installing, setting up, and

using your new TV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 TV front and side panel controls and connections . . . . . . . . . 7 TV back panel connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 2: Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Installing the remote control batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Remote control effective range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Learning about the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Remote Control functional key chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Using the remote control to operate your other devices . . . . 15 Programming the remote control to operate

your other devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Device code setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Searching and sampling the code of a device (8500). . . 16 Using the volume lock feature (8000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Operational feature reset (8900). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Multi-brand remote control device codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Chapter 3: Menu layout and navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Main menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Setup/Installation menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 THINC™ menu layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Navigating the menu system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Chapter 4: Setting up your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Selecting the menu language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Configuring the antenna input sources for the

ANT 1 and ANT 2 terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Programming channels into the TV’s channel memory . . . . 25 Programming channels automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Manually adding and deleting channels in the channel memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Setting the time and date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Setting the HDMI™ audio mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Viewing the CableCARD™ menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Viewing the digital signal meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Viewing the system status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 5: Using the TV’s features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Selecting the video input source to view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Labeling the video input sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Tuning channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Tuning channels using the Channel Browser™ . . . . . . . 31 Tuning to the next programmed channel . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Tuning to a specific channel (programmed or unprogrammed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Switching between two channels

using Channel Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Switching between two channels using SurfLock™. . . . 34 Selecting the picture size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Scrolling the TheaterWide® picture

(TheaterWide 2 and 3 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Using the auto aspect ratio feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Selecting the cinema mode (480i signals only) . . . . . . . . . . 37 Using the POP features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Using the POP double-window feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Selecting the POP window audio out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 POP double-window aspect ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using the FREEZE feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Adjusting the picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Selecting the picture mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Adjusting the picture quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Using the closed caption mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Closed Caption Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Digital closed captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using the Closed Caption button on the

remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Adjusting the audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Muting the sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Using the digital audio selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Selecting stereo/SAP broadcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Adjusting the audio quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using the StableSound® feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Turning off the built-in speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Selecting the optical audio output format . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Using the Locks menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Entering the PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 If you cannot remember your PIN code. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Changing your PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Blocking TV programs and movies

by rating (V-Chip) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Downloading an additional rating system

for blocking TV programs and movies . . . . . . . . . . 46 Blocking channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Unlocking programs temporarily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Using the input lock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Using the GameTimer™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Using the control panel lock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Setting the sleep timer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Setting the On/Off Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Using the PC settings feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Setting the PC Audio mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Displaying TV status information using RECALL . . . . . . . 52 Understanding the auto power off feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Understanding the last mode memory feature . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Chapter 6: Using the TV’s advanced features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Using the advanced picture settings features . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using dynamic contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using CableClear® digital noise reduction . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using MPEG noise reduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Selecting the color temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Using the Vertical Edge Enhancer feature . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Using the Color Management feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Using the Game Mode feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Using the advanced audio settings features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Using the SRS WOW™ surround sound feature . . . . . . 56 Using the virtual surround sound feature

(Dolby® Virtual/SRS TruSurround™) . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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