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1. Home Screen
1.1. Introduction
To enjoy the benefits of your Google TV, connect the TV
to the Internet. Press HOME on your remote control to
get your Home screen. Like on your Android smartphone
or tablet, the Home screen is the centre of your TV. From
the Home screen you can decide what to watch by
browsing entertainment options from app and live TV.
The Home screen is organized in rows to let you discover
great contents from your favourite apps. You can also
add additional rows or find new apps to get more
contents. Apps may populate their recommendation (if
available) according to their own choice as an individual
rows in the home screen.
Highlights on your home screen
With multiple tabs like Search, For you, Films, TV Shows,
Apps, Library and Philips, you can discover movies and
shows from your services and popular apps. Sign in to
your Google Account to get personalised
recommendations from your streaming services based
on what you have watched and what interests you. You
can also trigger Google search with voice or text input in
Search tab.
Apps
The Apps tab of Home screen contains all installed Apps
that come with the TV and the Apps you have installed
from Google Play™ Store. You can also install and add
more apps as favourite from the Apps tab.
Navigation
Decide what to watch next with easy-to-use navigation.
Browse your personalised recommendations, pick up
where you left off, or quickly find a certain app using the
new tab system.
Discover personalised recommendations
Browse shows and movies that you will love on all your
favourite media services. Sign in to your Google Account
to get started.
Get recommendations across Google
Your services are saved to your Google Account so you
can get better recommendations across Google.
All about your Philips TV
The Philips tab includes the information of your Philips
TV. Smart TV Collection row to list the apps that
designed for your TV or guide you to register your TV.
How to... row to introduce the tips of common
operations on your TV. Help row to help you to access
the user manual, perform the TV diagnose or Self-
diagnose to check your TV status.
See also www.support.google.com/googletv
1.2. Dashboard and Settings
Dashboard
The Dashboard is a side panel in Google TV that provides
access to Settings, device controls, notifications and
more.
The Dashboard can be accessed in three ways as follows:
1 - Navigating to the profile icon in the upper right of the
home screen.
2 - Press DASHBOARD key on the remote control.
3 - Long press HOME key on the remote control.
The dashboard contains following features.
• Profile: to display current user profile icon or to add
new user profile
• Settings: to access all setting menus for adjusting the
TV settings.
• Clock and screensaver: to indicate the system clock
and press to activate screen saver immediately.
• Sources: to launch the input source list for switching to
any of the connected devices.
• Picture: quick link to adjust picture settings.
• Notifications: to provide you the messages about the
Google TV system; press Clear all to dismiss all
notifications.
Adjust settings
You can access Settings menu via the dashboard at the
top right corner. Alternately, you can access the
Frequent settings menu and common menu items in the
Philips TV Menu, which can be invoked directly from the
remote control.
1.3. Google TV and Basic
Mode
Difference of feature
You can set your TV to Google TV mode or Basic Mode.
Basic Mode contains only Live TV and External devices
(e.g. HDMI) features. Google TV requires you to login
with your Google account and Internet connection. With
Google TV, you can have all Basic Mode features and
more Google's personalised services. For example,
movies and TV shows from your favourite streaming
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