Using the TV’s Menu System

 

Main Menu Picture Quality

0 Go Back

On

1 Picture Settings

Off

2 Picture Presets

When Auto Color is set to On, it minimizes flesh tone

3 Auto Color

variations.

4 Color Warmth

 

5 Noise Reduction

 

6 Green Stretch

A change in this screen is applied to Input 2.

7 Edge Enhancement

 

8 Contrast Expand

Press ￿ or ￿ to point to an option, then press OK to select

9 Advanced Settings

it. Press ￿to return to the menu.

Auto Color

Auto Color minimizes the flesh tone variations of the TV picture. Choose On or Off, depending on your preference.

0 Go Back

1 Picture Settings

2 Picture Presets

3 Auto Color

4 Color Warmth

5 Noise Reduction

6 Green Stretch

7 Edge Enhancement

8 Contrast Expand

9 Advanced Settings

Main Menu Picture Quality

Cool

Normal

Warm

Color Warmth automatically adjusts the "temperature" of the picture. Cool gives a more blue pallete of picture colors. Warm gives a more red pallete of picture colors.

A change in this screen is applied to Input 2.

Press ￿ or ￿ to point to an option, then press OK to select it. Press ￿to return to the menu.

Color Warmth

Color Warmth automatically adjusts the color temperature of the picture. The feature lets you set one of three automatic color adjustments:

Cool More blue.

Normal Standard picture color.

Warm More red.

0 Go Back

1 Picture Settings

2 Picture Presets

3 Auto Color

4 Color Warmth

5 Noise ReductionFilter

6 Green Stretch

7 Edge Enhancement

8 Contrast Expand

9 Advanced Settings

Main Menu Picture Quality

Frame Comb

Adaptive

Off

Noise Reduction reduces the appearance of video noise on composite video sources, giving a smoother picture.

For other sources of video, the Noise Reduction is not active.

The Frame Comb setting provides a constant level of improvement. In the Adaptive setting additional filtering is applied, increasing only as the noise content increases.

A change in this screen is applied to Input 2.

Press ￿ or ￿ to point to an option, then press OK to select it. Press ￿to return to the menu.

Noise Reduction

Noise Reduction displays a list that lets you set one of the three settings that allows you to reduce picture “static” or any type of interference. A different Noise Reduction setting can be stored for each input, but only applies to components connected to composite and NTSC sources. You can set the Noise Reduction to Frame Comb, Off or Adaptive. The settings are explained in the on-screen help text.

0 Go Back

1 Picture Settings

2 Picture Presets

3 Auto Color

4 Color Warmth

5 Noise FilterReduction

6 Green Stretch

7 Edge Enhancement

8 Contrast Expand

9 Advanced Settings

Main Menu Picture Quality

Off

Low

High

A change in this screen is applied to Input 2.

Press ￿ or ￿ to point to an option, then press OK to select it. Press ￿to return to the menu.

Green Stretch

Green Stretch makes green “greener” and increases the saturation. For example, nature shows and sporting events are especially enhanced by this feature. The options are Off, Low, and High.

0 Go Back

1 Picture Settings

2 Picture Presets

3 Auto Color

4 Color Warmth

5 Noise Reduction

6 Green Stretch

7EdgeConvergenceEnhancement

8 Contrast Expand

9 Advanced Settings

Main Menu Picture Quality

Off

Low

High

Edge Enhancement "replaces" gradual edge transitions in the video with steeper edges. This creates a picture with sharper edges.

A change in this screen is applied to Input 2.

Edge Enhancement manipulates gradual edge transitions by making them steeper and sharper. Press OK to continue.

Edge Enhancement

Edge Enhancement makes the edges of the video steeper, sharper, and crisper. There are three options for the edge enhancement: Off, Low, or High. If artifacts appear in the video, change the setting to Low or Off.

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RCA DVR2160, DVR2080 manual Auto Color, Color Warmth, Noise Reduction, Green Stretch, Edge Enhancement

DVR2080, DVR2160 specifications

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