Selecting Compatible Picture Formats
If your HDTV displays a black screen when you turn it on, the DVR may not be sending your HDTV a picture format that your HDTV supports. Follow these steps to select picture format settings that your HDTV supports.
Note: Rather than selecting a single picture format setting, you may want to select all settings that your HDTV supports. Setting up the DVR to support a variety of picture formats allows you to toggle among the different settings while viewing TV and select the setting that provides the best picture quality for the format being broadcast.
1.Find the picture formats that your HDTV supports. (If necessary, refer to the user’s manual that came with your HDTV.)
2.If the DVR is off, press Cable 
and then Power 
on the remote control to turn it on.
3.On the front of the DVR, press and hold Select 
until the Message Light 
blinks.
4.On the front of the DVR, press Vol – 
to indicate that you want to select a picture format setting. The LED displays HdSr to indicate that you are in the Picture Format mode for HDTV screens.
5.Use the following table to select settings that your HDTV supports.
Important: You have 20 seconds to begin selecting picture format settings. After 20 seconds, HdSr disappears to indicate that the DVR is no longer in the Picture Format mode. If this occurs, repeat this process by starting at step 3.
| On the |
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To Select This | DVR | The DVR | And Then |
Picture Format: | Press: | Briefly Displays: | Briefly Displays: |
480i | CH+ | 480i | SEt |
720p | VOL- | 720p | SEt |
480p | CH- | 480p | SEt |
1080i | VOL+ | 1080i | SEt |
Note: The default picture format setting is 1080i.
6.To start watching TV, make sure the remote control is in Cable mode and press Power 
.
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