Contents | Toshiba 42hl167 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Overview of cable types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 About the connection illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting a VCR and antenna or Cable TV

(no Cable box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting a VCR with S-video and a cable box . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting a DVD player with ColorStream®

(component video), a VCR, and a satellite receiver. . . . 16 Connecting a device to the IR OUT infrared terminal

using the IR blaster cable for IR pass-through device control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting a camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting an HDMI™ or DVI device to the HDMI

input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CE-LINK™connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting a digital audio system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting an audio system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting a personal computer (PC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chapter 3: Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Installing the remote control batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Remote control effective range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Learning about the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Remote Control functional key chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Using the remote control to operate your other devices . . . . 27 Programming the remote control to operate your other

devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Device code setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Searching and sampling the code of a device

(8500) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Using the volume lock feature (8000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Operational feature reset (8900). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Multi-brand remote control device codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 4: Menu layout and navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Main menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Setup/Installation menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 THINC™ menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Navigating the menu system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Chapter 5: Setting up your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Selecting the menu language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Configuring the antenna input source for the ANT

terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Programming channels into the TV’s channel memory . . . . 40 Programming channels automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Manually adding and deleting channels in the channel memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Setting the Auto Input feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Labeling channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Setting the HDMI™ audio mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Viewing the digital signal meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Viewing the system status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Selecting the Power-On Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Chapter 6: Using the TV’s features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Selecting the video input source to view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Labeling the video input sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Tuning channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Tuning channels using the Channel Browser™ . . . . . . . 47 Tuning to the next programmed channel . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Tuning to a specific channel (programmed or unprogrammed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Switching between two channels using Channel

Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Switching between two channels using SurfLock™. . . . 49 Selecting the picture size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Scrolling the TheaterWide® picture

(TheaterWide 2 and 3 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Using the auto aspect ratio feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Selecting the cinema mode

(480i and 1080i signals) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Using the FREEZE feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Adjusting the picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Selecting the picture mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Adjusting the picture quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using the closed caption mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Base closed captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Digital CC Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 CC Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Using the Closed Caption button on the remote

control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Adjusting the audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Muting the sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Using the digital audio selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Selecting stereo/SAP broadcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Adjusting the audio quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Using the StableSound® feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Selecting the optical audio output format . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Using the Dolby® Digital Dynamic Range Control feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Using the Locks menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Entering the PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 If you cannot remember your PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Changing your PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Blocking TV programs and movies by rating

(V-Chip) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Downloading an additional rating system for blocking

TV programs and movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Blocking channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Unlocking programs temporarily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Using the input lock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Using the GameTimer™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Using the control panel lock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Using the PC settings feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Setting the PC Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Setting the sleep timer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Using CE-LINK™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

CE-LINK playback device (HD DVD player, etc.) control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

VOLUME and MUTE controls of Audio Receiver . . . . 65 Other CE-LINK functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Displaying TV status information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Understanding the auto power off feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Understanding the last mode memory feature . . . . . . . . . . . 66

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