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Multi room
19.1
About Multi room
With Multi Room you can watch a TV programme that comes
from another TV in your home. The programme is streamed
from one TV to the other. You can stream a programme to a
TV that has no antenna connection of its own. You can also
stream a recorded programme from a TV with a connected
Hard Drive.
The TV that streams the programme to the other TV, must be
switched on and must tune to the channel or play the recording.
Streaming a TV programme with Multi Room will reduce the
picture resolution to 720p maximum. You cannot stream radio
channels. Some broadcasters protect their programmes to
prevent this kind of streaming.
19.2
What you need
To stream and watch TV channels from another Philips TV, the
other TV needs to serve as a TV channel source. Both TVs must
be connected to your wireless home network.
For more information, press
Wireless Network.
If the other Philips TV — the source — has a model number
that ends with an eight or higher, e.g. (the screen size)
XXXxxx8 or (the screen size) XXXxxx9 and it has the latest
software, you're all set.
On the other TV, read the Help chapter on Software update to
update its TV software.
If all conditions on both TVs are met, you can use Multi room.
19.3
Using Multi room
First time use
When you start Multi room for the first time, switch on both
TVs.
Once this TV made a connection with the other TV, the other
one will appear automatically in the Browse network menu
even when it's in standby.
Keywords and look up
Stream a TV channel
With Multi room, you can watch the current TV channel or
open the channel list of the other TV. If you select a channel
from the list, the other TV will also switch to the channel you
selected. If the other TV has a build-in satellite tuner with
installed channels or a connected Hard Disc Drive (HDD) with
recordings*, you can also watch these on this TV. You cannot
switch channels while the other TV is recording, in Pause TV
mode or using Skype.
To watch a TV channel from the other TV . . .
1 - Make sure the other TV is in standby* or switched on.
2 - On this TV, press SOURCES, select Browse network
and press OK.
3 - If the TV is not yet connected to your home network, the
network installation will start automatically. If the TV is already
connected, go to step 4.
4 - In the Browse network menu, select the name of the other
TV and press OK. If you have several TVs in your home, you
might want to change the name of the other TV. You can do
that on the TV itself.
5 - Select what you want to watch from the other TV . . .
• to watch the current channel of the other TV, select Current
channel and press OK.
• to open the channel list of the other TV, select Watch TV and
press (Right).
• to open the satellite channel list of the other TV, select Watch
satellite and press (Right).
• to open the list of recordings* on the other TV, select Watch
recordings and press (Right).
• you can switch channels with and . You cannot
switch channels when the other TV is recording, in Pause TV
mode or using Skype.
* To switch on the other TV from standby or to watch its
recordings from a connected Hard Disk Drive , both TVs must
have a type number that ends with an eight or higher, e.g.
(screen size) XXXxxx8 or (screen size) XXXxxx8..
TV name
To change the TV name . . .
Press > Setup > Network settings > TV network name.
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