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Important Safety Instructions

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Installation, Care, and Service

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Chapter 1: Introduction

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Features of your new TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Overview of steps for installing, setting up, and using

your new TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 TV front and side panel controls and connections . . . . . . . . 10 TV back panel connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter 2: Connecting your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Overview of cable types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 About the connection illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Connecting a VCR (or a VCR with S-video) and antenna,

Cable TV or Camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting a DVD player with ColorStream® (component

video), a VCR, and a satellite receiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting a device to the IR OUT infrared terminal

using the IR blaster cable for IR pass-through device control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting an HDMIor DVI device to the HDMI input . 16 REGZA-LINK connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting a digital audio system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting an audio system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting a personal computer (PC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter 3: Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Preparing the remote control for use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Installing the remote control batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Learning about the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Remote Control functional key chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Using the remote control to operate your other devices . . . . 24 Programming the remote control to operate your other

devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Device code setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Searching and sampling the code of a device (8500). . . 25 Using the volume lock feature (8000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Operational feature reset (8900). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Multi-brand remote control device codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Chapter 4: Menu layout and navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Main menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Setup/Installation menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 THINCmenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Navigating the menu system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Chapter 5: Setting up your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Setting the Demo Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Selecting the menu language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Configuring the input source for the

ANT/CABLE terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Programming channels into the TV’s channel memory . . . . 36 Programming channels automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Manually adding and deleting channels in the channel memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Setting the Auto Input feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Labeling channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Setting the HDMIaudio mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Viewing the digital signal meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Setting the time zone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Viewing the system status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Selecting the Blue LED Illumination level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Selecting the Power-On Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Selecting the Demo Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 6: Using the TV’s features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Selecting the video input source to view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Labeling the video input sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Tuning channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Tuning channels using the Channel Browser. . . . . . . 42 Setting the Channel Tuning Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Tuning to the next programmed channel . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Tuning to a specific channel (programmed or unprogrammed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Switching between two channels using Channel

Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Switching between two channels using SurfLock. . . . 45 Selecting the picture size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Scrolling the TheaterWide® picture

(TheaterWide 2 and 3 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Using the auto aspect ratio feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Using the FREEZE feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Adjusting the picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Selecting the picture mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Adjusting the picture quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Using the TheaterLockfeature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Using the closed caption mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Base closed captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Digital CC Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 CC Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using the Closed Caption button on the remote

control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Adjusting the audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Muting the sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Using the digital audio selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Selecting stereo/SAP broadcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Adjusting the audio quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Using the StableSound® feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Selecting the optical audio output format . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using the Dolby® Digital Dynamic Range Control feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using the Locks menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Entering the PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 If you cannot remember your PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Changing your PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Blocking TV programs and movies by rating (V-Chip) 53 Downloading an additional rating system for blocking

TV programs and movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Blocking channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Unlocking programs temporarily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Using the input lock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Using the GameTimer® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Using the control panel lock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using the PC settings feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Setting the PC Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Setting the sleep timer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Using REGZA-LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 REGZA-LINK playback device (HD DVD player, etc.)

control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 REGZA-LINK input source selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 VOLUME and MUTE controls of Audio Receiver . . . . 58 Other REGZA-LINK functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Using the HDMI settings feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Displaying TV status information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Understanding the auto power off feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Understanding the last mode memory feature . . . . . . . . . . . 60

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