HOW TO USE THE REMOTE TO CONTROL YOUR TV

PVR (Personal Video Recorder) button

When pressed, this button will blink to indicate the remote is in PVR mode (see page 41).

CD and AMP buttons

When pressed, each of these buttons will blink to indicate the remote is in Audio mode (see page 42).

CHANNEL selector buttons

CHANNEL selector buttons are used to select channels, lock access code, etc.

Enter one, two, or three numbers to select channels. Enter “0” first for channels 1 to 9, or simply press the single digit channel you wish to tune then wait a few seconds for the TV to tune. For channels 100 and above, press the “1” button, wait until two dashes appear next to the channel display on your TV, then enter the remaining two numbers using the number buttons.

Channel selection may also be performed by pressing CH up ( ) or down ( ).

NOTE: The TV may not receive some channels if you are not in the correct ANTENNA/CABLE mode (see page 54).

SLEEP and (-) DASH button

Press this button to display the sleep timer in the lower left corner of the screen. Every subsequent press of this button will add 15 minutes to this timer, up to a maximum of three hours. Once set, use INFO when you want to view time remaining. If the SLEEP button is pressed while the timer is set, it will reset to the original condition. The DASH (-) button can only be used when the remote control is in Set-Top-Box (STB) mode.

INFO button

Press this button when you want to check the channel being received, the picture source, if the channel has stereo (ST) or second audio program (SAP), the time, CHANNEL ID and if the SLEEP timer is set.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:32 PM

When an S-VIDEO

 

 

 

 

 

 

S-IN: 3

Input is connected to

 

 

 

 

 

 

VID 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

VIDEO: 3.

 

 

 

 

3:32 PM

Time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ant A 22

Main Picture Source

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stereo

Audio Broadcast

 

 

 

 

 

 

R

Broadcast Rating

 

 

 

 

 

 

1080i Format

Signal Format

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mode

 

 

Day/Night

 

 

 

 

3:32 PM

When a

Day

4:3 Expanded

HD 1080i

 

YPBPR: 1

COMPONENT

Closed

Mode

 

Captioning

 

CC Off

View 0:00 AM

Zzzz -:--

Sleep Timer

VID: 1

VIDEO: Y-PBPRInput

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

is connected to

 

 

 

Off Timer

Virtual HD

 

 

VIDEO: 1.

THE REMOTE CONTROL

ANTENNA button

The ANT button will select between Antenna A and Antenna B each time the button is pressed.

3:32 PM

Ant A 15

Stereo

G

ANT

3:32 PM

Ant B 22

Stereo

R

C.C. button

Press this button to quickly turn the Closed Caption feature on, off and auto. You can also access this feature on the Setup menu (See page 71).

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Hitachi 57X500 PVR Personal Video Recorder button, CD and AMP buttons, Channel selector buttons, Sleep and Dash button

57X500 specifications

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