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  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    The model number, serial number and electrical rating of this SOLVING PROBLEMS ....................35 set-top are on a label on its base. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE OF SOFTWARE (“TERMS”) ... 40 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES ..................42 Copyright © 2007 Pace Micro Technology plc. All rights reserved.

  • Page 4: Safety Information

    To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove the cover of your set-top. There are no user-serviceable parts inside it. Service address: Pace Micro Technology (Support Services) Ltd. Do not perform any servicing unless you are qualified to do so. 3701 FAU Boulevard, Suite 200, Boca Raton refer all servicing to qualified service personnel.
  • Page 5 IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Before you install or use the apparatus, you must read 10. Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched and understand these Important Safety Instructions. particularly at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the point At all times when using the apparatus you must follow where they exit from the apparatus.
  • Page 6 SAFETY INFORMATION (cont.) In addition to the Important Safety Instructions, please read the Ventilation Safety Information below. Slots and openings in the casing of your set-top are provided for ventilation, to ensure reliable operation of your set-top and to Power sources protect it from overheating.
  • Page 7 SAFETY INFORMATION (cont.) Transporting Risk of fire or scorching Move the combination of set-top and cart with care. Quick stops, Never place naked flame sources, such as lighted candles, on or excessive force and uneven surfaces may cause the combination adjacent to your set-top.
  • Page 8 SAFETY INFORMATION (cont.) Safety aspects of connections Full details of the rear panel are on page 8. Connecting The POWER OUTLET plug is designed only for connection to the AC power cord for a TV. The maximum power it can supply is 500 watts. Do not connect your set-top (or any other equipment such as a TV or VCR) to the power supply until you have properly connected all Do not connect any equipment that uses more than 500 watts, or...

  • Page 9: Regulatory Information

    SAFETY INFORMATION (cont.) Epilepsy and on-screen images Regulatory information Certain people are susceptible to epileptic seizures or losing CAUTION: Do not attempt to modify your set-top without consciousness when faced with certain types of flashing lights in written authorization from the manufacturer. Unauthorized our daily environment.

  • Page 10: Rear Panel

    REAR PANEL IR RECEIVE Universal Serial Bus ETHERNET Infra-red input from (USB) For future use a remote “eye” For future use VIDEO OUT DIGITAL AUDIO OUT Composite video output Electrical S/PDIF audio output SATA POWER OUTLET CABLE IN Separable security module For connection to an (500 W max.) From cable...
  • Page 11 REAR PANEL (cont.) CABLE IN HDMI Connect the cable service here. If your HDTV has an HDMI, connect it here for (High Definition a digital audio/video connection (instead of TO TV Connect to the RF/antenna input on your TV or Multimedia using the AUDIO and 3 analog COMPONENT VCR (optional).

  • Page 12: Connecting The Equipment

    CONNECTING THE EQUIPMENT Your set-top fully complies with international DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) WARNINGS standards. In order for you to view programs broadcast in high-definition, your set- Do not connect your set-top (or any other top must be connected to a suitable HDTV or computer monitor. Your set-top is also equipment such as a TV or VCR) to the AC power compatible with standard-definition TVs and VCRs.

  • Page 13: Hdmi Connection

    CONNECTING THE EQUIPMENT (cont.) Set-up A - Home theater system with HDTV NOTE (HDMI connection) Copy protection via HDMI Set-up A (see page 12) uses an HDMI (high definition multimedia interface) connector to connect secure link to the HDTV. This displays the highest quality picture on the HDTV and also means there will be no The HDMI link between your set- picture degradation on any future copy-protected programs (provided the link remains secure –...
  • Page 14 CONNECTING THE EQUIPMENT (cont.) Set-up A LEFT LEFT TV / RF AUDIO IN AUDIO OUT RIGHT RIGHT POWER HDTV AUDIO IN AUDIO OUT ANTENNA/ RF IN VIDEO IN VIDEO OUT COMPONENT COMPONENT VIDEO OUT VIDEO IN HDMI Y IN VIDEO IN DIGITAL AUDIO OUT ANTENNA/ POWER...
  • Page 15 CONNECTING THE EQUIPMENT (cont.) Set-up B LEFT LEFT TV / RF AUDIO IN AUDIO OUT RIGHT RIGHT POWER HDTV AUDIO IN AUDIO OUT ANTENNA/ RF IN VIDEO IN VIDEO OUT COMPONENT VIDEO IN Y IN VIDEO IN DIGITAL AUDIO OUT S-VIDEO OUT S-VIDEO ANTENNA/...

  • Page 16: Connecting Your Tv To The Ac Power Supply

    CONNECTING THE EQUIPMENT (cont.) WARNINGS Do not connect your set-top (or any other equipment such as a TV or VCR) to the AC power supply until you have properly connected all the other cables. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized plugs on power cords. A polarized plug has two blades with one wider than the other.

  • Page 17: Operating Your Set-Top

    OPERATING YOUR SET-TOP Turning your set-top on and off After you have connected your set-top to the wall AC outlet (and switched this outlet ON, if it has a switch), the light next to the power button on your set-top’s front panel should be red. To turn on your set-top, Wait for a few seconds, then press the button labeled power on the front panel of your set-top to press the power button.

  • Page 18: Using Your Remote Control

    OPERATING YOUR SET-TOP (cont.) Using your remote control Your cable TV service-provider determines the digital channels, services and screen information that you see on your TV when you use your set-top and its remote control. Consult the information supplied by your cable service-provider for details on how to make the most of the digital cable services.

  • Page 19: Using The Front-Panel Buttons

    OPERATING YOUR SET-TOP (cont.) Using the front-panel buttons You can use the buttons on the front panel to operate your set-top, if, for example, there is a problem with your remote control. power button MESSAGE L, R, U and D To turn your set-top on/off Lights when there is To move left/right/...

  • Page 20: Your Set-Top's Dvr Functions

    OPERATING YOUR SET-TOP (cont.) Using your set-top’s DVR functions NOTE Your set-top has an internal hard disk that you can use to record and play back television programs, The exact functionality of the giving you much more control of your viewing experience. For example, you can pause live television DVR (digital video recorder) and resume viewing from the point at which you left off.

  • Page 21: Using An External Hard Disk

    OPERATING YOUR SET-TOP (cont.) Using an external hard disk Your cable service-provider may enable a feature that allows an external hard disk to work with your set-top. If this is the case, most major brands of serial ATA hard disk, connected to the SATA port, are supported.

  • Page 22: Using Rf Bypass

    OPERATING YOUR SET-TOP (cont.) Using RF bypass NOTE You can use RF Bypass to watch the regular (analog) channels that are included in the cable service. If you are not sure whether your It makes these channels “bypass” your set-top and pass directly to your TV and/or VCR. set-top has been set up to allow RF bypass, check your installation.

  • Page 23: Making User Settings

    MAKING USER SETTINGS About User Settings Your installer should have made the correct settings to make sure your set-top is compatible with your HDTV or TV. However you may wish to change some settings, for example if you purchase a new HDTV.

  • Page 24: About The Tv Aspect Ratio

    MAKING USER SETTINGS (cont.) 4:3 standard TV, About the TV Aspect Ratio EDTV or HDTV The TV that you have connected to your set-top has an aspect ratio (width-to-height ratio) of 4:3 (basic/standard) or 16:9 (widescreen). You must set the appropriate TV Aspect Ratio (4:3 or 16:9) on your set-top, so that it is compatible with your TV.

  • Page 25: About Tv Display Capability (Resolution Settings)

    MAKING USER SETTINGS (cont.) About TV Display Capability (resolution settings) NOTE • Your set-top can transmit pictures to your TV in a range of resolutions (also called “Display When your HDTV is connected Capabilities” - see below for the settings available). Generally, higher screen resolutions give better to your set-top via an HDMI, your quality pictures.
  • Page 26 MAKING USER SETTINGS (cont.) Changing the TV Display Capability If you have not done so already, put your set-top into “user settings mode”, as described on page 21. The front panel displays “ASPt”. The flow diagram on page 25 shows how you use the arrow and select buttons on your set-top’s front panel to change the display and make the settings.
  • Page 27 MAKING USER SETTINGS (cont.) Further information about the TV Display Capability The TV Display Capability settings relate to equipment that is connected to the HDMI and COMPONENT VIDEO OUT connectors because the settings control the output at those connectors. If equipment is connected via a HDMI cable, that equipment may also pass information back to your set-top, which may affect what settings are available.

  • Page 28: Auto Pillarbox

    MAKING USER SETTINGS (cont.) Auto Pillarbox If your TV is a 16:9 TV that does not automatically detect 4:3 transmissions (and therefore does not add black bars to the sides of the picture), then 4:3 transmissions may display “stretched” to fit the 16:9 screen.
  • Page 29 MAKING USER SETTINGS (cont.) 2. Press the R button. Either “yes” (switched on) or “no” (switched off) is displayed. If you can see Auto Pillarbox? the on-screen menus, the menu shown right appears. 3. If you want to change the setting, press U or D. Press the select button to confirm the choice and change to the new setting.

  • Page 30: Making Closed Caption Settings

    MAKING USER SETTINGS (cont.) Making Closed Caption settings Closed captioning is a means of displaying alerts and subtitles on your TV screen, superimposed on whatever you are watching. You can turn closed captions on or off, as required, and you can also change the closed captions’...
  • Page 31 MAKING USER SETTINGS (cont.) Changing the closed captions’ appearance USER SETTINGS TV Aspect Ratio If you want to change the closed caption’s appearance, we recommend you use the on-screen TV Display Capability menus, rather than the front-panel display. Auto Pillarbox Closed Captions 1.

  • Page 32: Front Panel Settings

    MAKING USER SETTINGS (cont.) Front Panel Settings Occasionally, the brightness of your set-top’s front panel display may change, for example the display may dim automatically when your set-top is turned off. You can use the Front Panel Settings to set the brightness levels of the display at its brightest and dimmest.

  • Page 33: Restoring The Factory Default Settings

    MAKING USER SETTINGS (cont.) Restoring the factory default settings If you wish, you can restore the user settings to their factory defaults. All the changes you have made will be lost and the settings will revert to those that were programmed in the factory. The factory settings are: User Settings menu item Options Factory default setting...
  • Page 34 MAKING USER SETTINGS (cont.) If you have not done so, put your set-top into “user settings mode”, as described on page 21. The front panel displays “ASPt”. The flow diagram on the right shows how you use the arrow, select and power buttons on your set-top’s front panel to change the display and make the settings.

  • Page 35: Using Zoom

    USING ZOOM Using “Zoom” to change the picture Making the appropriate TV Aspect Ratio and TV Display Capability settings (see pages 21 through 27) should ensure that the picture on your TV screen is not distorted (stretched or squashed) and that it fills as much of the screen as possible.

  • Page 36: Using The Setup Menus

    USING THE SETUP MENUS The Setup menus allow you to make further settings to control how your set-top works. These are available in your on-screen guide and should be described in the information provided by your service-provider. There may also be on-screen information to explain these menus. However, please note there are certain items and settings that may affect how your set-top and TV work.

  • Page 37: Solving Problems

    SOLVING PROBLEMS If the installed system does not seem to be working properly, first make sure that all the cables are securely connected, then carry out the following checks, in the order shown Check Suggested solution Further checks, if there is still a problem Is anything lighted on Power may not be reaching your set-top.
  • Page 38 SOLVING PROBLEMS (cont.) Check Suggested solution Further checks, if there is still a problem Can you see a picture on Your TV and other equipment may not be Make sure the bypass feature is turned OFF (the word your TV screen? turned on.
  • Page 39 SOLVING PROBLEMS (cont.) Check Suggested solution Further checks, if there is still a problem Is the picture distorted Check that the TV Aspect Ratio and TV If your TV is a 16:9 TV, you can use Auto Pillarbox to add or too small? Display Capability, as set on your set-top, are black borders to 4:3 transmissions, so that the picture is...
  • Page 40 SOLVING PROBLEMS (cont.) Check Suggested solution Further checks, if there is still a problem Can you hear stereo First check that the program is likely to have If your TV is mono, you will hear stereo sound only if sound? stereo sound (an old movie, for example, may you have a stereo audio amplifier and speakers or home not be in stereo).
  • Page 41 SOLVING PROBLEMS (cont.) Check Suggested solution Further checks, if there is still a problem Is the picture low quality, Some programmes may include “copy or “fuzzy”, when you protection” which means, if your set-top is are expecting to see an connected to your HDTV via the component HDTV-quality picture? video jacks, the picture is downgraded to...

  • Page 42: Terms And Conditions For Use Of Software ("Terms")

    Software TECHNOLOGY PLC (“PACE”) OR ITS THIRD PARTY LICENSORS (THE are owned exclusively by Pace or its licensors and you agree to execute any “SOFTWARE”). BEFORE USING THE PRODUCT PLEASE READ THESE document reasonably requested by Pace to evidence such ownership rights.
  • Page 43 New York courts and Pace shall be entitled to bring a claim in the courts of any jurisdiction. Any failure by Pace to enforce any of its Certain additional license terms applicable to (iv) to (vi) above, are set out in the rights hereunder or applicable law shall not constitute a waiver of such rights.

  • Page 44: Open Source Licenses

    OPEN SOURCE LICENSES (i) GPL Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid GNU General Public License the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, Version 2, June 1991 in effect making the program proprietary.
  • Page 45 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES (cont.) cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that modifications to it.
  • Page 46 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES (cont.) NO WARRANTY if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
  • Page 47 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES (cont.) Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an users.
  • Page 48 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES (cont.) GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Most GNU software, including some libraries, is covered by the ordinary GNU General TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND Public License. This license, the GNU Lesser General Public License, applies to certain MODIFICATION designated libraries, and is quite different from the ordinary General Public License.
  • Page 49 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES (cont.) 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Library or any portion of it, thus forming a GNU General Public License has appeared, then you can specify that version instead if work based on the Library, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the you wish.) Do not make any other change in these notices.
  • Page 50 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES (cont.) Otherwise, if the work is a derivative of the Library, you may distribute the object code For an executable, the required form of the “work that uses the Library” must include for the work under the terms of Section 6. Any executables containing that work also fall any data and utility programs needed for reproducing the executable from it.
  • Page 51 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES (cont.) 10. Each time you redistribute the Library (or any work based on the Library), the Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Library specifies a version recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute, link number of this License which applies to it and “any later version”, you have the option of with or modify the Library subject to these terms and conditions.
  • Page 52 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES (cont.) How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the conditions and the following disclaimer.
  • Page 53 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES (cont.) 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of The following conditions apply to all code found in this distribution, be it the RC4, RSA, conditions and the following disclaimer. lhash, DES, etc., code; not just the SSL code. The SSL documentation included with this 2.
  • Page 54 License version 1.0. The source code is available via an accepted Electronic Distribution written permission. Mechanism as defined in that license, to anyone to whom Pace made an executable THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTOR(S) ``AS IS’’...
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