TV Functions
The Digital Lounge system offers several TV func- tions that require special attention. Please make yourself familiar with these functions by reading the chapter below.
To switch on the TV, press the TV Button 0 on the remote control. The Digital Lounge sys- tem will switch on, shown by the amber Power On indicator switching to blue. Please note that for all the functions described below, the system needs to be in TV mode. When TV tuner signal is not shown on the screen, press the TV button again.
Changing Channels
Once the TV has been selected as input, chan- nels can be changed by pressing the number of
the TV channel using the numeric keys on the remote control. For any of the channels that are stored at preset 10 and above, first press the first digit, quickly followed by the second digit.
Channels can also be changed with the Preset Up and Down Buttons LJ. Each press of these buttons will select the next or previous TV channel. When you are changing a TV channel, a mini bar will appear on the right top of the screen, showing the selected TV channel and it's name.
Picture in Picture (PIP) Function
With this function you can watch two video inputs simultaneously on your Digital Lounge display. The second video input can either be shown in the right corner of the display, or the display can simply be divided in two equally big squares, each of them showing another video input. All video inputs that are connected to the display can be selected to run as a second video source, however there are some exceptions. If the HDMI, DVI, or YUV inputs have been chosen as main video input, the second video input can not be HDMI, DVI or YUV. Please note that only the analog TV tuner can be used in connection with PIP functions. The Digital (DVB-T) Tuner is not available for PIP use, even if it has been selected during Setup.
To activate the function, press the Picture in
Picture (PIP) Button on the remote con- trol. You will see that the second source will appear in a square on the right top of the screen. At the same time a mini bar will appear showing the two video inputs currently watched. The video input shown on the top is the original video input, and the one shown below is the second video input. Pressing the PIP Button
again will show both video inputs in the
same size. Pressing the PIP Button a third time will de-activate the Picture in Picture function.
When the Picture in Picture function is active, the main picture can be selected by the
Numeric Key Buttons (when TV tuner is source) and the secondary picture by the Presets Buttons L while pressing the PC or VIDEO Source Selection buttons 0 will tog- gle through all available PC and Video sources.
Aspect Ratio
The Digital Lounge display allows for watching video sources in several aspect ratios. The default setting is Fill All and can be set to your personal taste for each individual input, as described on page 29. Should you wish to tem- porarily change the aspect ratio of a video input, press the Screen Format Button repeatedly until you have found your preferred picture format. With each press of the button, the current aspect ratio will be shown in the mini bar on the right top of the screen. Below is a short description of the different picture formats:
Available picture formats for TV signals
Normal: This format setting displays a PAL 4:3 picture with the correct side ratio. Dark stripes are visible on the left and right-hand edges of the picture.
Fill all: In this format setting the picture is adapted in horizontal direction until the screen's width is filled completelly. This format is needed to display all so called "Widescreen" (also named "16:9" or anamorphic) movies with opti- mal size and aspect ratio that will be streched vertically in the "Normal" mode (see below).
16:9: In this mode the picture is scaled horizon- tally to the complete picture width, approx. 25 %in total being cut off the top and bottom of the picture recorded with 4:3 format.
Available picture formats for PC signals over the DVI input
When you have a computer connected to the DVI input, the following picture formats can be chosen:
Normal: Displays the PC picture filling the com- plete height of the screen, without changing the side ratio. Dark stripes are visible on the left and righthand edges of the picture depending on the input format of the PC picture.
Fill All, 16:9: These are the same settings as with TV source described above.
14:9: With a 14:9 zoom the picture is enlarged vertically by a total of 15 %, i.e. approx. 15 % of the picture content is cut off vertically. Horizontally the picture is reduced in size in comparison with the full picture display by 15 %, i.e. narrow bars are displayed on the right and left. This mode is a good compromise to enlarge "4:3" video material (like e.g. from the TV tuner) and keeping the correct aspect ratio without cutting too much on top and bottom of
the picture. It can also be used with non- anamorphic pictures that will show a small frame around in Normal mode.
One to one: With this setting the number of visible screen pixels is adapted to the input sig- nal, i.e. 1366 x 768 pixels are always repro- duced by the PC picture for a screen resolution of 1366 x 768 while e.g. the frequently used PC graphics card resolution 1024 x 768 will fill the height of the screen and keep big black bars on the sides (as with a 4:3 video). This PC mode is recommended for getting PC Pictures with opti- mal performance.
Available picture formats for all other video sources
Normal, Fill All, 16:9, 14:9: These are the same settings as with TV and PC source described above.
Auto zoom: This function is available with TV and analog inputs only. With the SCART inputs selected it evaluates the current picture format and switches automatically between normal mode and Fill All depending of the signal format (4:3, 16:9) received and the settings for the Aspect Ratio Detection made in the Scart Setup menu (see page 29). With other analog inputs selected, this function will sense black bars around the movie and, after some seconds, zoom it in all directions, filling the width of the screen while keeping the aspect ratio of the original.
This mode should be used for the full screen dis- play of any non-anamorphic letterbox video material (with a black frame around).
16:9 Top: Select with picture in letterbox format as described above but with subtitles below. This will zoom the video and shift it upwards.
14:9 Top: Select with same pictures as above but with subtitles below. This will zoom the video and shift it upwards.
Panorama: This format setting scales the input signal automatically in horizontal direction to fit the full screen, but not linearly. i.e. the picture contents in the centre of the screen are dis- played as the original and towards the edges more intense scaling takes place. This mode can be used to fill the screen horizontally with "4:3" material without affecting the centre part of the video too much.
