Philips 7819901511 Setting TV Channels, Setting Aspect Ratio, Setting Parental Control

Getting Started

Setting TV Channels

To record the TV program you want to watch, it is

important that you set up a list of recognizable channels

for the DVD recorder.

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1. Press SETUP to display the Setup menu.

2. Select TV signal source through TV Tuner TV

signal.

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3. Select the country where you are currently situated

through TV Tuner Country.

4. Scan TV channels through TV Tuner Utilities 

Scan Channel.

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When the ‘Scan Channel’ function is activated, the

TV channels are scanned and stored in a speciﬁc or-

der. If your TV content provider changes the channel

listing, or if you are reinstalling this DVD recorder,

you may need to go through this process again.

5. To edit listed channels, see

Using Channel Editor (p.16)

Setting Aspect Ratio

Aspect ratio setting affects how video images are pre-

sented. Select the mode which suits your television.

1. Press SETUP to display the Setup menu.

2. Change the setting through Playback Aspect Ratio.

3. If you connect the DVD recorder to a widescreen(16:9)

TV, select ‘16:9 Widescreen’.

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4. If you connect the DVD recorder to a normal (4:3) TV,

select either ‘4:3 Letterbox’ or ‘4:3 PanScan’. How-

ever, when playing back a DVD-Video disc recorded

in wide picture format, the picture shown on screen is

different.

1. If you select ‘4:3 Letterbox’:

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The picture is shown with black bars at the top and bottom.

2. If you select ‘4:3 PanScan’ :

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The picture is zoomed to ﬁll the screen vertically, and the left and

right sides of the image are chopped off. Please note that depend-

ing on the disc, the picture may be shown in the 4:3 Letterbox

mode even if you select the 4:3 PanScan mode.

Setting Parental Control

Some DVD-Video discs are encoded with a Parental

Management Level(PML) numbered from 0 to 8. You

can set the parental control level of this DVD recorder to

one of the numbers, then only a DVD-Video disc with the

PML equal to or lower than the one you set can be played

back by this DVD recorder.

1. Press SETUP to display the Setup menu.

2. Change the level of parental control through

PlaybackParental Lock.

3. If the level you select is different from the one you set

before, an input box asking for password will appear.

Enter 4-digit password by pressing number buttons(0-

9).

The default password is 0000.