The Initial Setup menu

Setting

Options

Explanation

 

Tuner

 

 

 

 

 

 

Auto Channel

Auto Scan

Select your country and then wait for the recorder to auto tune into channels in

Setting

 

your area. After auto scan has finished, the channel mapping screen appears

 

 

showing which channels have been assigned to which program numbers. You

 

 

can skip unwanted channels using the Manual CH Setting option below.

 

 

Press HOME MENU to exit the channel mapping screen.

 

 

 

 

Download from

If your TV supports this feature you can download all the channels that your TV is

 

TV

tuned to via the SCART input. Select your country and then wait for the down-

 

 

load to complete. After the download is complete, the channel mapping screen

 

 

appears, as above.

 

 

 

See also the operating instructions that came with your TV for more information.

 

 

 

Manual CH Setting

Next Screen

Proceed to the next screen if you need to adjust any of the settings made by auto

 

 

tuning. Select your country, then proceed to the manual channel setting screen:

 

 

• Change channel presets using the

buttons.

 

 

• To skip the displayed channel (because there is no station assigned to that

 

 

channel), change the Skip setting to On.

 

 

 

• Set the CH SYSTEM setting to match the channel system of your country or

 

 

region.

 

 

 

• Set the CHANNEL setting to the channel you want to assign to the current

 

 

channel preset.

 

 

 

• To manually fine tune the channel, change the AFT setting to Off then adjust

 

 

the Level setting.

 

 

 

• Set the Sound System setting to match the sound system of your region.

 

 

• The Name field allows you to input a name of up to five characters for the

 

 

current channel preset.

 

 

 

• If the currently selected channel is scrambled requiring a decoder connected

 

 

to the AV2 (INPUT 1/DECODER), set the Decoder setting to On.

 

 

 

Channel Swapping

Next Screen

Proceed to the next screen to swap channel assignments of different presets so

 

 

that you can group together presets that naturally go together. Select two

 

 

presets to swap then press ENTER.

 

 

 

 

 

Video In/Out

 

 

 

 

 

 

Input Colour

Next Screen

Proceed to the next screen to set the input colour system for the external input

System

 

and the built-in TV tuner. Use the CH +/– buttons to change the preset. On the

 

 

default Auto setting the recorder can generally correctly detect whether the

 

 

input signal is PAL, SECAM, 3.58 NTSC or PAL-60, but in some cases you may

 

 

have to set it manually if the picture is displayed incorrectly.

See also About the input colour system on page 135 for more information on this setting.

Component Video Interlace •

Select if your monitor/TV is not compatible with progressive-scan video.

Out

 

 

Progressive

Select if your monitor/TV is progressive-scan compatible. Check the operating

 

 

 

instructions that came with your monitor/TV if you’re not sure.

For Component Video Out to be effective, the AV1 Out setting (see AV1 Out below) must be set to something other than RGB.

AV1 Out

Video •

Sets the AV1(RGB)-TVSCART output to standard composite video (compatible

 

 

with all TVs).

 

 

 

 

S-Video

Sets the AV1(RGB)-TVSCART output to S-video. Recommended if you are using

 

 

a long SCART cable.

 

 

 

 

RGB

Sets the AV1(RGB)-TVSCART output to RGB. Good quality but check your TV for

 

 

compatibility. Note that on this setting signals from the built-in tuner and from

 

 

external inputs is not output when the recorder is in TV mode.

 

 

 

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