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Adjust Your HD Picture Using General Settings

You can adjust how your DVR displays pictures using the Picture Format and TV Borders General Settings menu options.

Set Your Default Picture Format

By automating picture adjustments, the DVR uses a method that you choose to automatically select the picture format that provides the best display possible. The methods that you can select from depend partly on the type of video connection your HDTV uses. (See the box on the next page for more details.)

Follow these steps to select a method the DVR will use to display pictures.

1.Press Settings twice. The General Settings menu appears.

2.Press Move Upor Move Downto select Set: Picture Format.

3.Press Move Right to select the picture format setting.

4.Press Move Upor Move Down to display each option. Note: See the box on this page for an explanation of each option.

5.Press A Accept to accept the option for the DVR.

Note: The 8300 DVR front panel displays the selected option and scan rate. For example, if you selected Pass-Through, the 8300 DVR front panel displays AUTO and 1080i.

6.Press Exit to return to normal viewing.

Display Formats for Digital Sources

The following table shows the relationship between the picture format method, the signal the DVR receives, and the format of the picture that displays on your TV screen.

If you chose this picture

And the DVR receives

The HDTV displays the

format method:

this signal:

picture in this format:

Fixed

1080i, 720p, 480i, 480p

The picture format you

 

 

selected from the Quick

 

 

Settings menu. (For details,

 

 

see page 10.)

Pass-Through

1080

1080

or

720p

720p

Auto-DVI

480i

480i

 

480p

480p

 

 

 

Upconvert 1

480i/480p

480p

 

720p/1080i

1080i

 

 

 

Upconvert 2

480i/480p

480p

 

720p/1080i

720p

 

 

 

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