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Roku HD1000 User Manual

Roku HD1000 User Manual

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  • Page 1 U S E R G U I D E For Software Release 1.5.18 HD1000...
  • Page 3 Roku even plays digital music files over your home network, so you can enjoy your growing digital music library on your home stereo system. Any way you use it, Roku is simple and easy. Just connect to your home network for sharing digital media from your PC, or pop in a variety of memory cards and watch your HDTV come to life with high-definition digital photos, art and music.
  • Page 4 Display the Main Menu. Make sure you install bat- teries in the remote before setting up your HD1000. Select an on-screen item. Navigating Skip to Previous image/track. To get around the screen,...
  • Page 5 Receive standard memory cards from digital cameras and MP3 players. CompactFlash Slot Receive standard CompactFlash cards for viewing photos, art or MPEG2 video.The HD1000 can display a 1080i video stream along with 5.1 audio. Connect to a display with a VGA connector. Video Outputs...
  • Page 6 Browse images manually or play an image slideshow, with or without music. Inspiring Art • Roku offers motion and still Art Packs by download or on CompactFlash memory cards so you can enjoy an inspiring home gallery in your living room. •...

  • Page 7: Digital Music

    • Customers who use tuner cards to record digital broadcast television to a computer will enjoy viewing these recorded segments on their HDTV through the Roku HD1000. • Third-party applications are available to support additional formats. Roku Open Platform & SDK •...

  • Page 8: Optional Accessories

    • Space (download only) • Rack Ears • Crestron Driver (third-party accessory) • Extra Remote Control • WiFi Network Adapter (third-party accessory) Art Packs and other accessories are available at www.rokulabs.com and in stores where the Roku HD1000 is sold.

  • Page 9: Connection Methods

    C o n n e c t i n g t h e H D 1 0 0 0 Connection Methods The HD1000 is designed to connect to your AV system in one of two ways. In the first method, you connect the HD1000 like you would a DVD player or any other normal audio-video source.

  • Page 10: Connecting Via Vga

    3. Turn on the display and, with the remote for your TV, select the input to which you have just connected the cable. 4. Connect the power cable to the back of the HD1000 and plug it into an electrical outlet.

  • Page 11: Connecting Via S-Video

    3. Turn on the display and select the input to which you have just connected the cable. 4. Connect the power cable to the back of the HD1000 and plug it into an electrical outlet. 5. You’ll see a Busy light blinking, and a startup graphic will appear on your screen.
  • Page 12 3. Turn on the display and select the input to which you have just connected the cable. 4. Connect the power cable to the back of the HD1000 and plug it into an electrical outlet. 5. You’ll see a Busy light blinking, and a startup graphic will appear on your screen.

  • Page 13: Audio Connections

    2. If using analog audio, connect a standard stereo audio cable (supplied) to the red and white Audio Out connectors on the back of your HD1000. Connect the other end of the cable to the audio input on your amplifier, display or speakers. Be sure to match the colors of the plugs to the colors of the connectors.
  • Page 14 2. Follow the appropriate steps in the “Connecting the HD1000” sec- tions above to connect the HD1000 Video-Out to your display. When your HD1000 is in Standby mode (Power LED not lit), the signal present on the Video In connector will now be sent to the Video Out connector.
  • Page 15 Setup. Setup, in the bottom left corner, allows you to set the type of connection used from the HD1000 to your display, the output resolution and many other options. See the “Setup and Prefer- ences” section for additional details.
  • Page 16 Slideshow. Select Slideshow to start the Slideshow Viewer and see each image or MPEG video from the selected media source. If your HD1000 is currently showing the Main Menu and you insert a memory card with photos, art or MPEG video, the slideshow begins automatically, displaying the content from that card.

  • Page 17: Playing Music

    There are also some PC utilities for converting video files of other types into a transport stream that may be compatible with the HD1000, although we have not had the opportunity to test these conversion utilities. The HD1000 treats MPEG2 video clips in your media folders as images.
  • Page 18 Play — or press Select to open and view contents of the playlist, then press Play to play the contents. (If the HD1000 can’t locate one of the files in your playlist, it will be omitted.) The HD1000 currently supports .M3U and .PLS playlist formats;...
  • Page 19 Browsing Directories Your Roku HD1000 scans each media source and finds all of the media files it contains. When viewing the contents of your removable memory card, you will see all files displayed in one list (Roku “flat- tens”...

  • Page 20: Memory Card Specifications

    You may notice that once you begin browsing images, you enter Image Viewer mode (or Music Player mode if you began by brows- ing music). Any browsing will be confined to that media type until you exit to the Main Menu by pressing Menu or Exit. From the Main Menu, you once again have the option to access both image and music files.
  • Page 21 In either case, you just make your choices and click the Done button. Roku remembers your settings until you change them, even if you turn your HD1000 off. Press Exit on the remote to dismiss the dialog without making any changes.
  • Page 22 Even a high-performance image viewer like the HD1000 takes a couple of seconds to decode a large file, so it would be a bummer to have to wait for each picture to come up before you could press Next or Previous again.
  • Page 23 Tip #5: Zoom in on the action Your HD1000 supports a multilevel zoom feature. As mentioned in the previous tip, the initial presentation of your image will depend upon the Fit/Fill mode you select. But, maybe there’s something in a given image that you want to look at more closely.
  • Page 24 Some cameras actually have a built-in sensor which records whether the camera was rotated for a given picture. If you’re lucky enough to have one of those cameras, your HD1000 will rotate the image right side up for you automatically.
  • Page 25 Press Info a third time to dismiss the display. If you find yourself pressing the Info button a lot, you may want to set your HD1000 to automatically display info for each image when it first appears. This is done in the Options screen (see the first tip).
  • Page 26 Slideshow and Listen just as you would on any other media source. To play the pictures and music together, just press the button under Roku Applications that corresponds to the Art Pack. The music will stop when you exit the slideshow, either to the thumbnail browser or to the Main Menu.
  • Page 27 Set Time Access the Date and Time settings panel to manually change the date and time on your HD1000. If your Roku HD1000 is connected to the Internet, the date and time will be updated automatically. This setup panel may be used to manually adjust the date and time in the event you do not have an Internet connection.
  • Page 28 A good rule of thumb is to reset your television’s settings for video size and position to their default values before accessing this setup panel. If you are passing a video signal through your HD1000 (see the section in this manual entitled “Connecting Your HD1000 to Use the Video Pass-Through Feature”), then rather than resetting your...
  • Page 29 Fill mode to stretch the 4:3 480i image to a 16: 9 aspect ratio. You may then make video placement adjustments to fit the Roku HD1000’s video output to the full screen and use the circle as a guide to maintaining a true 16:9 aspect ratio.

  • Page 30: Bypass Mode

    Bypass Mode When you press the power button on your Roku HD1000, it will enter Standby mode and display a pass-through video signal on its video outputs. The pass-through video signal will be the same video signal that is connected to the Roku HD1000’s video input connectors.

  • Page 31: Connection Troubleshooting

    Mode” below to put your unit back into initial setup mode. 2. Check that the display is set to the correct input. 3. Check that the video cable from the HD1000 is connected to the correct Video Out connector(s). 4. If using component cables, unplug each of the three (red, green, blue) connectors from the HD1000 and verify that the color of the plug matches the color of the connector on the HD1000.
  • Page 32 Power LED blinking to indicate video format mode 1 (see table on page 7). 5. If your HD1000 is in initial setup mode, go to the beginning of this chapter and follow the procedures outlined there to set up your video mode.
  • Page 33 Pause before navigating from your Music Player back to the Main Menu. Symptom: I like the clock that comes with the HD1000, but the time isn’t correct. From the main menu, select Setup. Scroll through the setup options and pick “Set Time.”...
  • Page 34 Need help? Go to www.rokulabs.com/support or contact support@rokulabs.com. Note: The Roku software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. © 2004 Roku, LLC. All rights reserved. ROKU, the ROKU logo, and LiveArt are trade- marks of Roku, LLC in the United States and other countries.
  • Page 35 www.rokulabs.com...

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