¦Using the Yahoo!® Weather Widget

The Yahoo!® Weather Widget provides updates on your local and favorite weather locations. This content dynamically changes with weather conditions.

Press the green button on the remote control to display the Yahoo!® Weather Widget Settings menu.

From the Settings menu you can add or remove a city for which you want to view weather information.

From the Settings menu:

Add New City by entering the name of the city. Once the search results are displayed, select the city you want and press the ENTEREbutton.

Delete City by selecting the city you want to delete from the city list. Press the ENTERE button and confirm the deletion.

Changing the Temperature Indication Mode

You can change the temperature indication mode to Imperial or Metric. For example, Imperial will show temperatures in Fahrenheit and Metric in Celsius.

Create a snippet for a favorite city

WEATHER

51°

Sunnyvale

 

Cloudy

Sunnyvale, CA

San Francisco, CA

New York, NY

London, England

Paris, France

Select the city from the Yahoo!® Weather Widget’s home page and view the detailed weather information.

Press the yellow button.

Select the Add Snippet menu and press ENTEREto add the city as a snippet.

Delete a snippet for a city

Launch the snippet.

Press the yellow button.

Select the Delete Snippet menu and press ENTEREto remove the snippet.

¦ Using the Yahoo!® News Widget

The Yahoo!® News Widget provides the latest headline news for business, entertainment, politics,

NEWS

sports, top stories, and many other categories.

 

● Select a category, select a headline within the category, and view a dynamically updated

 

news summary.

 

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UN55B8500 specifications

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