Basic functions

Press one of the grey, red, green, yellow or blue keys to activate a Teletext Guide function. The keys appear in grey if the function is not available.

Review: this menu provides a list of programmes that are marked as reminders, those that have to be recorded and those that are locked.This menu can be used to change or remove marked programmes.

Record: to programme the recording of the video recorder (if it has a NEXTVIEWLink function and is connected to EXT. 2).

Remind: to automatically switch on the TV if it is in standby or to display a message if the TV is on.

Lock: to lock certain programmes to prevent recording or watching.

For the functions Record, Remind or Lock, a small menu pops up in which you can choose the interval: once, daily or weekly, or clear an earlier made record, remind or lock setting.The default interval is set to Once.To confirm the frequency, press the OK key.

Watch: to watch the selected and currently broadcast programme.

Teletext

Most TV channels broadcast information via teletext.This TV has a 1200 pages memory that will store most broadcasted pages and subpages to reduce waiting time. After each programme change, the memory is refreshed.

Switch Teletext on and off

Press b to switch the teletext on.

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BBC CEEFAX

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News

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BBC Info

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Headlines

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Children

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Weather

400

Cookery

150

Sports

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Education

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Radio

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Lottery

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Travel

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Finance

240

Subtitling

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Music

280

TV Listings

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Select a Teletext page

-Enter the desired page number with the digit keys, the cursor keys up/down or with the -P+key.

-Select the options at the bottom of the screen with the colour keys.

Previously selected teletext page

(Only possible in case there is no list of favourite teletext pages available. See p. 13.)

Press the 0 key.

Select the index teletext page

Press the grey colour key to display the main index (usually p.100).

Only for T.O.P teletext broadcasts:

Press i. A T.O.P. overview of the teletext subjects available is displayed.

Select with the cursor up/down, left/right the desired subject and press the OK key.

Not all TV channels broadcast T.O.P. teletext.

Select subpages

When a selected teletext page consists of different subpages, a list of available subpages appears on the screen.

Press the cursor left or right to select the next or previous subpage.

Enlarge a Teletext page

Press q repeatedly to display the upper teletext part, the lower teletext part and then to return to the normal teletext page size. When the teletext page is enlarged, you can scroll the text, line by line using the cursor up/down.

Active screen selection

When in dual screen picture/teletext, enter the desired page number with the -P+key, then press the MENU key, then select the left screen (with the blue ball at the top).

You can now select a compressed or full screen view of picture/teletext with the q key.

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Philips 36PW 9308, 32PW 9308 manual Teletext

36PW 9308, 32PW 9308 specifications

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