Philips SX60 user manual Philips TV software upgrade with portable memory, Introduction

12Philips TV software upgrade with portable memory

Introduction

Philips offers software upgrade capability for your TV using portable memory. After you have completed a software upgrade, your TV will typically perform better.

What improvements are made depends on the upgrade software you are using as well as the software your TV contained before the upgrade. You can execute the software upgrade procedure yourself.

Be aware that the content of this document is addressing technical or software skilled users.

To prepare a portable memory for software upgrade

For the procedure you will require:

•a personal computer with web browsing capability;

•an archive utility that supports the ZIP-format (e.g. WinZip for Windows or Stuffit for Mac OS);

•a preferably empty USB memory stick.

Note

Only FAT/DOS-formatted portable memory is supported.

New software can be obtained from your dealer or can be downloaded from the www.philips. com/support website:

Go to www.philips.com/support using the web browser on your PC.

Follow the procedure to find the information and the software related to your TV.

Select the latest software upgrade file and download it to your PC.

Decompress the ZIP-file and copy the file “autorun.upg” to the root directory of the USB portable memory.

Note

Only use software upgrades that can be found on the www.philips.com/support web site.

To verify the version of the TV software Before you start the software upgrade procedure, it is advised to check what the current TV software is.

Select Software Upgrade in the TV menu, Installation, Software upgrade.

Press the π key.

The Software Upgrade menu moves to the left panel.

Select Current Software Info to observe the version and the description of the current software.

TV menu

Installation	Software upgrade
Languages	Current softw. info
Channels	Local upgrades
Preferences	Announcement
Connections
Decoder
Factory settings
Software upgrade
Info

12.1 Automatic software upgrade procedure

Switch off your TV and remove all memory devices.

Insert the USB portable memory that contains the downloaded software upgrade.

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