3.4 Pause TV and recording

Smart USB recording

With this TV you can pause a TV broadcast from a digital channel. You can pause a TV broadcast to watch it later. Simply connect a USB Hard Drive device to your TV and you can pause the broadcast.

If your TV is connected to the Internet, you can also record or set a programmed recording of a digital broadcast. In some countries, recording is not supported.

What you need

Smart USB recording and Pause TV only work with digital TV channels (DVB broadcast or similar).

To pause

To pause a digital broadcast you need to connect a USB Hard Drive. Use a USB 2.0 compatible Hard Drive device with a minimum of 32GB Hard Drive space and a minimum writing speed of 30MB/s. Connect the USB Hard Drive to one of the two USB connectors on the side of the TV.

To record

First, check if the Programme guide supports recording. With the Internet connected, press h and select Programme guide. If there is a Recordings button on the Programme guide page, you can record programmes.

To record programmes, you need a USB 2.0 compatible Hard Drive with 250GB and a high-speed (broadband) Internet connection to the TV.

Read more about connecting to the network in Help > Setup > Network.

USB Hard Drive installation

Before you can pause or record a broadcast, you must format the connected USB Hard Drive.

1 Connect the USB Hard Drive to one of the two USB ports on the side of the TV. Do not connect another USB device to the other USB port when formatting.

2 Switch on the device and the TV.

3 When the TV is tuned to a digital TV channel, press U (Pause) to start formatting. Formatting will remove all data from the connected USB Hard Drive. Follow the instructions on screen. When the USB Hard Drive is formatted, leave the device connected permanently.

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Warning

The USB Hard Drive is formatted exclusively for this TV, you cannot use the stored recordings on another TV or PC. Do not copy or change recording files on the USB Hard Drive with any PC application. This will corrupt your recordings. When you format another USB Hard Drive, the content on the former will be lost.

Pause TV

While watching a TV broadcast from a digital channel, you can pause the broadcast and continue watching later on. Answer a phone call or take a break. Meanwhile, the broadcast is stored on the USB Hard Drive. You can pause a broadcast for a maximum time span of 90 minutes.

To pause a TV broadcast, press U (Pause). A progress bar appears briefly on screen.

To call up the progress bar, press U (Pause) again. To continue watching, press x (Play).

To switch to TV broadcast again, press S (Stop).

Once you switch to a digital channel, the USB Hard Drive starts storing the broadcast. When you switch to another channel, the new channel broadcast is stored and the broadcast of the former channel is cleared. Also when you switch the TV to standby, the stored broadcast is cleared.

When you start watching a programme of another device - a connected Blu-ray Disc player or digital receiver - the USB Hard Drive clears all broadcast storage.

Whilst recording a programme on the USB Hard Drive, you cannot pause a TV broadcast.

Instant replay

Whilst watching a TV broadcast from a digital channel, you can easily instant replay the broadcast.

To replay the last 10 seconds of a TV broadcast, press U (Pause) and press w (Left).

You can press w repeatedly until you reach the start of the broadcast storage or the maximum time span.

Progress bar

With the progress bar on screen, press T (Rewind) or press Q (Forward) to select from where you want to start viewing the stored broadcast. Press these keys repeatedly to change their speed.

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