Philips 7819901511 manual Setting TV Channels, Setting Aspect Ratio, Setting Parental Control

Setting TV Channels

To record the TV program you want to watch, it is important that you set up a list of recognizable channels for the DVD recorder.

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1.Press SETUP to display the Setup menu.

2.Select TV signal source through TV Tuner TV signal.

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3.Select the country where you are currently situated through TV Tuner Country.

4.Scan TV channels through TV Tuner Utilities 

Scan Channel.

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When the ‘Scan Channel’ function is activated, the TV channels are scanned and stored in a specific or- der. If your TV content provider changes the channel listing, or if you are reinstalling this DVD recorder, you may need to go through this process again.

5.To edit listed channels, see

Using Channel Editor (p.16)

Setting Aspect Ratio

Aspect ratio setting affects how video images are pre- sented. Select the mode which suits your television.

1.Press SETUP to display the Setup menu.

2.Change the setting through Playback Aspect Ratio.

3.If you connect the DVD recorder to a widescreen(16:9) TV, select ‘16:9 Widescreen’.

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4.If you connect the DVD recorder to a normal (4:3) TV, select either ‘4:3 Letterbox’ or ‘4:3 PanScan’. How- ever, when playing back a DVD-Video disc recorded in wide picture format, the picture shown on screen is different.

1. If you select ‘4:3 Letterbox’:

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The picture is shown with black bars at the top and bottom.

2. If you select ‘4:3 PanScan’ :

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The picture is zoomed to fill the screen vertically, and the left and right sides of the image are chopped off. Please note that depend- ing on the disc, the picture may be shown in the 4:3 Letterbox

mode even if you select the 4:3 PanScan mode.

Setting Parental Control

Some DVD-Video discs are encoded with a Parental Management Level(PML) numbered from 0 to 8. You can set the parental control level of this DVD recorder to one of the numbers, then only a DVD-Video disc with the PML equal to or lower than the one you set can be played back by this DVD recorder.

1.Press SETUP to display the Setup menu.

2.Change the level of parental control through PlaybackParental Lock.

3.If the level you select is different from the one you set before, an input box asking for password will appear. Enter 4-digit password by pressing number buttons(0- 9).

The default password is 0000.

Getting Started

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