Smart Tv; About Smart Tv; What You Need; Smart Tv Apps - Philips xxHFL5xx9 series User Manual

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Smart TV

16.1

About Smart TV

• Only for xxHFL5xx9 and xxHFL7xx9
Connect this Philips Smart LED TV to the Internet and discover
a new world of television. You can make a wired connection to
your router or you can link up wirelessly with Wi-Fi.
With the TV connected to your home network, a smartphone
can show a photo on TV, you can play videos stored on your
computer or control the TV with your tablet.
With your TV connected to the Internet, you can watch a rental
video from an online video store, read the online TV guide. The
Smart TV Apps add to the fun with all sorts of entertainment
and convenient services.
16.2

What you need

To enjoy Smart TV Apps you must connect the TV to a router
with a high-speed (broadband) connection to the Internet. You
can use a home network connected to the Internet. You do not
need a computer.
Tip
To enter text or to navigate an Internet page more easily, you
can consider to connect a USB keyboard and a USB mouse to
the TV.
16.3

Smart TV Apps

Open Smart TV
The Smart TV start page is your link to the Internet. You can
rent movies online, read newspapers, watch videos and listen to
music, also shop online, open your social network page
(Facebook, Twitter, . . .) or watch TV programmes when it suits
you with Online TV. To do this, you open Apps - Internet sites
which are tailored for TV. With your TV connected to the
Internet, you can open Smart TV.
Open Smart TV
To open the Smart TV start page, press SMART TV.
Alternatively, you can press , select Smart TV and press OK.
The TV connects to the Internet and opens the Smart TV start
page. This may take a few seconds.
Close Smart TV
To close the Smart TV start page, press  and select another
activity.
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Smart TV start page
1 - Now on your TV
2 - Country Flags
3 - Recommended Apps
Country Flags
Apps are organized by Country. Select the desired country flag
to see the overview of available apps for that profile.
Recommended Apps
In this window, Philips presents a range of recommended Apps
for your country, Apps for Online TV or a selection of rental
movies from Video stores. You can select and open them from
the Recommended Apps window.
Open an App
The list of your Apps on the Smart TV start page can be several
pages long. Use the arrow keys to go to the next or previous
page. Alternatively, press CH  (Next page) or CH  (Previous
page).
Open an App
To open an App . . .
1 - Press  and select Smart TV.
2 - On the start page, select the desired Country Flag and Press
OK.
3 - Select an App icon and press OK.
4 - In an App, press  to go back 1 step or page.
Close an App
To close an App and return to the Smart TV start page, press
SMART TV.
Reload an App page
If an App page did not load properly, press OPTIONS and
select Reload to reload the page.
Zoom
To zoom in on an App page . . .
1 - Press OPTIONS and select Zoom page.
2 - Use the slider bar to set the zoom level.
3 - Return to normal view by resetting the slider bar.
View security info
You can check the security level of an App page.
On an App page, press OPTIONS and select Security info. If a
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