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Always there to help you Register your product and get support at www.philips.com/support HTB7255D Question? Question? Contact Contact Philips Philips User manual...
Contents 6 Change settings Language settings 1 Help and support Picture and video settings Use onscreen help (user manual) Audio settings Navigate onscreen help Parental control settings Display settings 2 Important Energy saving settings Safety Speaker settings 3D health warning Restore default settings Care for your product Care of the environment...
Care in your country. Before you contact Right: Navigate to the right Philips, note down the model number and panel or next index entry. serial number of your product. You can find this Left: Navigate to the left panel information on the back or bottom of your or previous index entry.
Keep the battery out of reach combined weight of the product and the of children at all times! If swallowed, the wall mount. Koninklijke Philips Electronics...
battery can cause serious injury or death. Care for your product Severe internal burns can occur within two hours of ingestion. • Do not insert any objects other than discs • If you suspect that a battery has been into the disc compartment. swallowed or placed inside any part of the •...
3 Your home theater Congratulations on your purchase, and welcome to Philips! To fully benefit from the support that Philips offers(e.g. notification of product software upgrade), register your product at www.philips.com/welcome. a POP-UP MENU/DISC MENU Remote control Access or exit the disc menu when you play a disc.
• In radio mode, press left or right to start auto search. • In radio mode, press up or down to tune the radio frequency. (Mute) Mute or restore volume. d +/- (Volume) Increase or decrease volume, or restore volume when muted. a Alphanumeric buttons •...
(Play/Pause) Rear left Start, pause or resume play. (Stop) • Stop play. • In radio mode, press and hold to erase the current preset radio stations. (Eject) Eject a disc. g Display panel h Disc compartment a TO SUBWOOFER Connect to the supplied subwoofer. Connectors b SPEAKERS Connect to the supplied speakers.
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Rear right a HDMI OUT (ARC)TO TV Connect to the HDMI input on the TV. b LAN Connect to the LAN input on a broadband modem or router. c ANTENNA FM 75 Connect the supplied FM antenna.
4 Connect and set This section helps you connect your home theater to a TV and other devices, and then set it up. For information about the basic connections of your home theater and accessories, see the quick start guide. Note •...
If you cannot hear the TV audio through Connect to TV your home theater, set up the audio manually. (see 'Set up the audio' on page Connect your home theater to a TV to watch videos. You can listen to the TV audio through your home theater speakers.
Depending on the manufacturer, HDMI-CEC is known by many names. For information on your device, see the user manual of the device. • Philips does not guarantee 100% interoperability with all HDMI-CEC devices. Using an optical cable, connect the OPTICAL connector on your home...
Enable EasyLink Set up the audio If you cannot hear the audio output of a Press (Home). connected device through your home theater Select [Setup], and then press OK. speakers, do the following: Select [EasyLink] > [EasyLink] > [On] . •...
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If necessary, read documentation that accompanies the network components. Philips is not responsible for lost, damaged, Set up the wireless network or corrupt data. Your home theater has a built-in Wi-Fi for easy Before you start access to a wireless network.
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Personalize the network name Name your home theater to easily identify it on your home network. Press (Home). Select [Setup], and then press OK. Select [Network] > [Name your Product:]. Press the Alphanumeric buttons to enter the name. Select [Done], and then press OK to exit.
5 Use your home Press (Home) to exit. theater Discs Your home theater can play DVDs, VCDs, CDs, This section helps you use the home theater to and Blu-ray discs. It can also play discs that play media from a wide range of sources. you’ve made at home, such as CD-R discs of Before you start photos, videos, and music.
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Button Action Note Access the advanced options • To avoid flickering, change the brightness of the display. OPTIONS when you play your audio, video, or media files (see 'Audio, video, and picture options' on page 19). Bonus View on Blu-ray On Blu-ray discs that support the Bonus View, Synchronize picture and sound enjoy extra content such as commentaries in a...
Bluetooth device, disable the currently connected Through Bluetooth, connect the home theater Bluetooth device. • Philips does not guarantee 100% compatibility with all with your Bluetooth device (such as an iPad, Bluetooth devices. iPhone, iPod touch, Android phone, or laptop),...
[Cyrillic] Bulgarian, Belorussian, English, Note Macedonian, Moldavian, Russian, • To play DivX DRM protected files, connect your home Serbian and Ukrainian theater to a TV through an HDMI cable. [Greek] Greek [Baltic] Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Subtitles Asia Pacific and China If your video has subtitles in multiple languages, Character Language...
• A media file in one of the supported file Video options formats (see 'File formats' on page 33). While watching video, select options such as subtitles, audio language, time search, and Note picture settings. Depending on the video source, •...
[Picture settings]: Select a predefined • Note color setting. • [2D to 3D]: View 2D or 3D video. • Make sure that the picture and audio formats are supported by your home theater (see 'File formats' on page 33). Picture options While viewing a picture, zoom into the picture, rotate it, add animation to a slideshow, and Radio...
Button Action iPod or iPhone Navigation Left/Right: Search for a radio buttons station. Through the home theater, you can play audio Up/Down: Fine tune a radio files from your iPod or iPhone. frequency. With an iPod/iPhone USB cable, connect Press to stop the installation your iPod or iPhone to the iPod/iPhone of radio stations.
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(SimplyShare) • If your home theater is not found, Philips SimplyShare allows you to use your check the network connection or tap smartphone to stream multimedia content the Devices tab on your mobile device (such as pictures, audio and video files), and play to search again.
• If you cannot see the folders, make • Windows Media Player 11 or higher sure that you enable media sharing on for PC the selected device so that the content • Twonky Media Server for Mac or PC is available for sharing. •...
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The first time you select Media Sharing on » If you don't see a media program, your PC,a pop-up screen appears. Check check that your PC firewall is not the Share my media box and click OK. blocking the connection. »...
AUTO VOL Play files from your PC Reduce sudden changes in volume, for example, during TV commercials. Note Select an option, and then press OK. • Before you play multimedia content from the computer, make sure that the home theater is connected to BACK to exit. Press the home network, and the media server software is •...
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CLEAR: Hear every detail in your • music and clear voices in your movies. • WARM: Experience spoken words and music vocals in comfort. PERSONAL: Personalize the sound • based on your preferences. Press OK to confirm. Equalizer Change the high frequency (treble), mid frequency (mid), and low frequency (bass) settings of the home theater.
6 Change settings Picture and video settings Press (Home). The home theater settings are already Select [Setup], and then press OK. configured for optimal performance. Unless Select [Video], and then press OK. you have a reason to change a setting, we recommend that you keep the default setting.
on your home theater. Night mode Energy saving settings is only available in DVDs and Blu-ray discs with Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby True HD soundtracks. Press (Home). [HDMI Audio]: Set the HDMI audio • Select [Setup], and then press OK. output from your TV, or disable HDMI Select [Preference], and then press OK.
Restore default settings Press (Home). Select [Setup], and then press OK. Select [Advanced] > [Restore default settings], and then press OK. Select [OK], and then press OK to confirm. » Your home theater is reset to its default settings except for some settings such as parental control and DivX VOD registration code.
• In your web browser, go to Do not install a lower version of software than the current version installed on your product. Philips is not www.philips.com/support. liable for problems caused due to software downgrade. At the Philips Support website, find your product and locate the Software and drivers.
If the current version of the onscreen help Follow the onscreen instructions to is lower than the latest version available on confirm the update. www.philips.com/support, download and install » Update process takes about 5 minutes the latest onscreen help (see 'Check software to complete.
8 Product File formats specifications • Audio: • .aac, .mka, .mp3, .wma, .wav, .mp4, .m4a, .flac, .ogg • .ra (Available only in Asia Pacific and Note China) • Video: • Specifications and design are subject to change without • .avi, .divx, .mp4, .m4v, .mkv, .asf, .wmv, notice.
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Exten- Con- Audio codec Bit rate Audio codec Video codec Bit rate sion tainer H.264/AVC 25 Mbps OGGPCM No limit HiP@5.1 Upto 320 kbps .mkv files in MKV container Audio codec Video codec Bit rate Video formats PCM, Dolby DivX Plus HD 30 Mbps Digital, DTS If you have a high definition TV, your home core, MPEG,...
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.mpg and .mpeg files in PS container Audio Audio codec Video codec Bit rate • S/PDIF Digital audio input: PCM, DTS MPEG 1, 40 Mbps • Optical: TOSLINK core, MPEG, MPEG 2 • Sampling frequency: • MP3: 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz • WMA: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz .flv files in FLV container •...
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• Impedance: 3 ohm • Speaker drivers: 165 mm (6.5") woofer • Dimensions (WxHxD): 196 x 397 x 342.3 mm • Weight: 6.1 kg Speakers • Speaker impedance: 5 ohm • Speaker drivers: 2 x 76.2 mm (3") woofer + 1 x 25.4 mm (1") tweeter •...
However, you do not need a separate If you still have a problem, get support at audio connection when the home theater www.philips.com/support. and TV are connected through an HDMI ARC connection. Main unit •...
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• Make sure that the home theater is • Switch to the correct HDMI source on connected to a Philips brand EasyLink TV, the TV. and the EasyLink option is turned on (see Network 'Set up EasyLink (HDMI-CEC control)' on Wireless network distorted or not found.
10 Notice Open source software Philips Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd hereby This section contains the legal and trademark offers to deliver, upon request, a copy of notices. the complete corresponding source code for the copyrighted open source software packages used in this product for which such Copyright offer is requested by the respective licenses.
This product complies with the radio interference requirements of the European Community. Manufactured under license under U.S. Patent Hereby, Philips Consumer Lifestyle, declares that Nos: 5,956,674; 5,974,380; 6,226,616; 6,487,535; this product is in compliance with the essential 7,392,195; 7,272,567; 7,333,929; 7,212,872 requirements and other relevant provisions of &...
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Licensing LLC in the United States and other countries. The Bluetooth word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Philips is under license. (Available only in Asia Pacific and China) RealNetworks, Real, the Real logo, RealPlayer, and the RealPlayer logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc.
12 Index control buttons (disc) control buttons (USB) customer support 2nd audio language data files 2nd subtitle language deep color default settings device name disc language 3D disc in 2D mode disc menu 3D safety display panel 3D video disposal DivX 5.1 speakers Easylink (HDMI-CEC) eject disc...
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sound speaker position main unit speaker specifications media formats subtitle language media sharing subtitle position menu language surround sound musical slideshows synchronize picture and sound network troubleshooting (network) night mode troubleshooting (picture) troubleshooting (play) troubleshooting (sound) tuning grid one-touch play one-touch standby options update onscreen help (user manual) update software (through Internet)