Home Screen; Home Screen And Channels; Apps And Philips Tv Collection; Open The Home Screen - Philips OLED706 Series User Manual

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Home Screen

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Home Screen and Channels

To enjoy the benefits of your Android TV, connect the
TV to the Internet. Press  HOME on your remote
control to get your Android Home screen. Like on
your Android smartphone or tablet, the Home screen
is the centre of your TV. From the Home sreen you
can decide what to watch by browsing entertainment
options from app and live TV.
Your Home has channels to let you discover great
contents from your favourite apps. You can also add
additional channels or find new apps to get more
contents.
The Home screen is organized in channels. Apps may
populate their recommendation (if available)
according to their own choice as an individual
channels in the home screen.
Apps
Your favourite Apps are placed on the first row. This
row contains number of apps pre-installed. The order
of these apps are according to business agreements
with content service providers. In this row you will
also find the Apps, like Philips TV Collection, Watch
TV, TV Guide, Media and others.
Live TV
Live TV channel shows the currently running
programmes from the installed channels.
Play Next channel
You can always know what to watch next from Play
Next channel on the Home screen. Start watching
from where you left off and get notifications about
new episodes in the Play Next channel. Press and
hold Select on a movie or TV show to add it directly
to the Play Next channel.
Google Play Movies & TV channel
Rent movies or TV shows on this channel from
Google Play Movies & TV.
Help channel
This channel contains "How to..." tutorial videos to let
you know how to unbox, how to connect external
devices, how to install channel, etc.
YouTube channel
This channel contains your Recommended,
Subscriptions or Trending YouTube videos.
Customize channels
Click the CUSTOMIZE CHANNELS button to add and
remove channels from your Home screen.
Accessing settings from Home
You can access All Settings menu via the icon at the
top right corner. You can also find the Frequent
settings menu and common menu items in the Philips
TV Menu, which can be invoked directly from the
remote control.
System bar on Home screen
The System bar on the top of Home screen contains
following features.
- Search button: to trigger Google search with voice
or text input. The search result and its order are
rendered according to business agreements with
content service providers.
- Input source: to launch the input source list and
switch to any of the connected devices.
- Notifications: to provide you the messages about
your Smart TV system.
- Settings: to access all setting menu and adjust the
TV settings.
- Clock: to indicate the system clock.
See also www.support.google.com/androidtv
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Apps and Philips TV
Collection
Apps
You can add more apps as favourite from the Apps
page. The Apps page can be opened by clicking the
Apps icon at the left end of the Apps row. The Apps
page contains all installed Apps that come with the
TV and the Apps you install from Philips TV Collection
or Google Play™ Store yourself.
Philips TV Collection
All your premium apps are available within the Philips
TV Collection app. Launch it using the banner on
the Apps row. The Philips TV Collection app will also
contain recommendations for new Apps and more.
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Open the Home Screen

To open the Home screen and open an item...
1 - Press  HOME.
2 - Select an item and press OK to open or start it.
3 - Press  Back continuously or press  HOME
can go back to Home screen.
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