Table Of Contents - Sony CPD-G420 Operating Instructions (primary manual) Operating Instructions Manual

Table of Contents

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Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Identifying parts and controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Step 1: Connect your monitor to your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Step 2: Connect the power cord. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Step 3: Turn on the monitor and computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Connecting Universal Serial Bus (USB) compliant peripherals . . . . 8
Selecting the on-screen menu language (LANGUAGE) . . . . . . . . . . 8
Selecting the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Customizing Your Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Navigating the menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Adjusting the picture quality (PICTURE EFFECT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Adjusting the brightness and contrast (CONTRAST/BRIGHT) . . . . 12
Adjusting the centering of the picture (SIZE/CENTER) . . . . . . . . . 12
Adjusting the size of the picture (SIZE/CENTER). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Automatically sizing and centering the picture (AUTO) . . . . . . . . . 13
Adjusting the shape of the picture (GEOMETRY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Adjusting the convergence (CONVERGENCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Adjusting the picture quality (SCREEN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Adjusting the color of the picture (COLOR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Additional settings (OPTION) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Resetting the adjustments (RESET) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Technical Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Preset and user modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Power saving function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
If thin lines appear on your screen (damper wires). . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
On-screen messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Trouble symptoms and remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Self-diagnosis function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Preset mode timing table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i
TCO'99 Eco-document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i
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