Chapter 6: Using the TV’s features

Clearing channels from the History List:

•Reconfiguring the ANT/CABLE input will clear the History List.

Note: See page 29 for details on configuring the antenna input.

•Once 32 channels or inputs are stored in the History List, the oldest item will be removed from the list when a new channel or input is tuned.

•Turning off the TV will clear the History List.

Setting the Channel Tuning Mode

This feature allows you to choose how tuning will be handled for analog and digital channels when the TV is in Antenna mode.

Note: To use this feature, the Input Configuration must be set to Antenna (page 29).

The channel tuning mode has three options.

Mode Description

Tuning to the next programmed channel

To tune to the next programmed channel:

Press or on the remote control or TV control panel.

Note: This feature will not work unless you program channels into the TV’s channel memory (page 30).

Tuning to a specific channel (programmed or unprogrammed)

Tuning analog channels:

Press the Channel Number (0–9) on the remote control. For example, to select channel 125, press 1, 2, 5, then .

Tuning digital channels:

Press the Channel Number (0–9) on the remote control, followed by the dash () button and then the sub-channel number. For example, to select digital channel 125-1, press 1, 2, 5, –, 1, then .

Standard

Both analog and digital channels can be tuned normally

Note: If a digital channel is not programmed—either through the automatic channel scan (page 30) or the channel add/delete function (page 30)—you will have to tune the

 

Digital channels will have priority when

Auto

manually entering a channel number using

the Channel Number (0-9) on the remote

(default)

control, analog channels can still be tuned

 

 

by

/

, if available

 

 

Digital

Only digital channels can be tuned

 

 

 

 

Note: Digital mode will be most useful after analog channels are shut down by the government in 2009.

To set the Channel Tuning Mode:

1� From the Setup menu, highlight Installation and press . A new set of Installation menu icons will appear.

� Open the Terrestrial menu, highlight Channel Tuning Mode, and then press and   to select your desired mode.

Note:

•The Channel Add/Delete & Channels Block windows as well as the Channel Browser ANT/CABLE list will be updated automatically when you change the mode. Also, the History List will be cleared, but the Favorites List will be saved.

•Even if the Channel Tuning Mode is set to Digital, analog channel 3 will still be the default channel to prevent the initial case where no digital channels have been found in prior channel scans. (Channel Add/Delete will not have anything listed until a scan is done.)

RF channel using the Channel Number and dash () on the remote control.

Switching between two channels using Channel Return

The Channel Return feature allows you to switch between two channels without entering an actual channel number each time.

1� Select the first channel you want to view.

� Select a second channel using the Channel Number buttons (and the dash () button if selecting a digital channel).

� Press on the remote control. The previous channel

will display. Each time you press , the TV will switch back and forth between the last two channels that were tuned.

Note: If you press from a non-antenna input, the TV will return to the last-viewed input.

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22AV500U specifications

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