Introduction, Tip | Philips 15/20HF5234 guide

1Introduction

Thank you for purchasing this television set. This manual contains all information you will need to initially install and operate your new TV.

If this instruction manual does not give an answer to your problem or

if Troubleshooting page does not solve your TV problem, you can call your Local Philips Customer or Service Centre. See the supplied Worldwide guarantee booklet for details. Please have the Model and Product number (which you can find at the back or the bottom of your television set or on the packaging) ready, before calling the Philips customer support service.

1.1Important information

1.1.1 Stationary images on the TV screen

A characteristic of LCD and Plasma Panels is that displaying the same image for a long time can cause a permanent after-image to remain on the screen. This is called phosphor burn in. Normal use of the TV should involve the showing of pictures that contain constantly moving and changing images that fill the screen.

Examples of stationary images (this is not an all inclusive list, you may encounter others in your viewing).

•TV and DVD menus: listings of DVD disk content.

•Black bars: when black bars appear at the left and right side of the screen, it is recommended to change to a picture format so that the picture fills the entire screen;

•TV channel logo: present a problem if they are bright and stationary. Moving or low-contrast graphics are less likely to cause uneven aging of the screen;

•Stock market stickers: presented at the bottom of the TV screen;

•Shopping channel logos and pricing displays: bright and shown constantly or repeatedly in the same location on the TV screen.

•Examples of still pictures also include logos, computer images, time display, teletext and images displayed in 4:3 mode, static images or characters, etc.

Tip:

Reduce contrast and brightness when viewing.

1.1.2 Electric, Magnetic and

Electromagnetic Fields (“EMF”)

•Philips Royal manufactures and sells many products targeted at consumers, which, like any electronic apparatus, in general have the ability to emit and receive electro magnetic signals.

•One of Philips’ leading Business Principles is to take all necessary health and safety measures for our products, to comply with all applicable legal requirements and to stay well within the EMF standards applicable at the time of producing the products.

•Philips is committed to develop, produce and market products that cause no adverse health effects.

•Philips confirms that if its products are handled properly for their intended use, they are safe to use according to scientific evidence available today.

•Philips plays an active role in the development of international EMF and safety standards, enabling Philips to anticipate further developments in standardisation for early integration in its products.