For best quality, use an HDMI cable to connect the game console to the side of the TV.
If the game console is connected with HDMI and has EasyLink HDMI CEC, you can operate the game console with the TV remote control.
Alternatively, use a SCART adapter (not supplied) to connect the game console to the TV.
USB Hard Drive
What you need
If you connect a USB Hard Drive, you can pause or record a TV broadcast. The TV broadcast needs to be a digital broadcast (DVB broadcast or similar). Also, you can connect a USB Hard Drive to watch movies from an online video store (Video On Demand).
To watch rental videos
If you are connected with the Internet, you can rent a movie from an online video store. Open Smart TV and start a rental video App from the App gallery.
Some online video stores may require to connect a USB flash drive or USB Hard Drive to buffer the video streaming (use a USB flash drive of 8GB). When you install a USB Hard Drive, you can select the option to use the USB Hard Drive to buffer a video store video stream.
To pause
To pause a broadcast, you need a USB 2.0 compatible Hard Drive with a minimum of 32GB Hard Drive space and a minimum writing speed of 30MB/s.
To record
To pause and record broadcasts, you need a Hard Drive with a minimum of 250GB Hard Drive space.
TV guide
Before you decide to buy a USB Hard Drive to record, you can check if you can record digital TV channels in your country. Press Guide on the remote control. If there is a Record button on the TV guide page, you can record programmes from digital TV channels.
If the Record button is not available, check if the TV guide is updated from the Internet.
To check if the TV guide gets its data from the Internet, press h and select S Setup and press OK.
Select TV settings > General settings > TV guide. Select From the Internet and press OK.
In Help, press * List and look up USB Hard Drive, Installation to install a USB Hard Drive on this TV.
Installation
Before you can pause or record a broadcast, you must connect and format a USB Hard Drive. If you want to record a broadcast with TV guide data from the Internet, you need to have the Internet connection installed on your TV before you install the USB Hard Drive.
1 - Connect the USB Hard Drive to a USB connection on the back of the TV. You can use any USB connection on the TV but the connection next to HDMI 1 is the most practical one. Do not connect another USB device to the other USB ports when formatting.
2 - Switch on the USB Hard Drive and the TV.
3 - When the TV is tuned to a digital TV channel, press p (Pause). Trying to pause will start the formatting. Formatting removes all files from the connected USB Hard Drive.
Follow the instructions on screen.
When the USB Hard Drive is formatted, leave it connected permanently.
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