Contents If a specialized dealer has already set up and adjusted the Audio Menu; "Speakers" menu option ...... 15 television, start with page 8 of this manual. Adjusting (balancing) the loudspeakers and the connected speaker boxes to each other ....15 Notes on Safety and Installation Adjusting the balance of the front speaker boxes ..
Notes on Safety and Installation When setting up your television, select a location where as little light as possible falls on the screen. The ideal viewing distance is five times the diagonal width of the screen. If the television is to be built into a compartment or similarly enclosed, minimum distances must be maintained.
Connecting and Setting Up Connecting the Television Connecting the unit to the aerial É Plug the aerial cable into the aerial socket on the unit. This highly digitized TV set provides optimum picture and sound quality. For this, the following conditions must be met: Correctly functioning aerial system and connecting leads with high screening factor (85 dB) between the TV set and the aerial socket, and between the TV set and the video...
Assigning Programme Positions The Automatic Tuning System "ATS euro plus" Your television is equipped with "ATS euro plus" (Auto Tuning After switching on the television set, the "ATS euro plus" page System). This new system offers you the advantage of appears.
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Assigning Programme Positions Press the following buttons on the remote control handset You will see this on the TV screen Explanations If you select "F" as country, this menu 3. If your location is F euro plus wil be displayed. Auto Tuning System It allows you to select between "Cable/ Reception VIA:...
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Assigning Programme Positions Press the following buttons on the remote control handset You will see this on the TV screen Explanations 5. Clearing the data of a channel euro plus position Auto Tuning System TV-Station Table Prog Channel Station C 06 a) Select the programme position.
Assigning Programme Positions How to proceed: ATS euro plus – Update Select channel position 15. Press the button. If you have already found and stored in memory channels with "ATS euro plus" and wish to start a new ATS euro plus PROG PAL B/G search (for example, when you have changed your location or...
= Reverse picture search You can also use the remote control of this television to (Numbered button 2) = Forward picture search operate a Grundig video recorder. Your specialized dealer can (– button) = Record start advise you as to which are suitable.
Contrast, Sharpness, White Balance, Brightness – Black Stretch, and Tint – Colour – The new settings are indicated. Call up the "GRUNDIG Infocenter" by pressing the “ button. The "Picture menu" line is highlighted in blue. Picture Format Switching “ Press the button.
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Adjusting the Picture With broadcasts in conventional format (4:3), the picture Each manually selected function in the formats menu is screen of this set (16:9) will not completely be filled out. automatically switched to PALplus if such a broadcast is received, and back to the previous format when the PAL- plus broadcast is over.
Adjusting the Sound Headphones ... with the Audio Menu Connection Insert the headphones plug (3.5 mm ∅ jack) into the Calling up the audio menu socket. Press the ¢ button. Audio-menu Sound effects Sound Stereo Headphones Stereo Equalizer Speakers Surround Sound mute Select Terminate...
Pseudo-Surround necessary. The two Surround speaker boxes are supplied with the unit. As front speaker boxes, we recommend the use of GRUNDIG PD 1 speaker boxes. These are optically and technically designed to match this television. 1. Loudspeakers with Dolby Surround Pro Logic...
Insert the grey core of the supplied twin-wire into the red clamping terminal, and the black core into the black clamping terminal. Connecting the front stereo boxes e.g., GRUNDIG PD 1 (optional accessory) Rear of television Front box PD 1; Front box PD 1;...
Dolby Surround Pro Logic Adjusting (balancing) theTV loudspeakers and Audio Menu the connected speaker boxes to each other After having selected the desired configuration, all loudspea- kers and speaker boxes must be adjusted to each other. In Press the ¢ button to call up the audio menu.
Dolby Surround Pro Logic Centre level (for Dolby Surround Pro Logic) Dolby Pro Logic, Dolby 3 Stereo, Dolby Phantom Rear level Dolby-Surround adjustments make only sense if the sound is received in stereo. Adjust in the same way as for the "Balance "menu option. For example, if you receive a programme in stereo, the station transmits a corresponding signal and the TV set Master volume...
Teletext Teletext is provided free of charge by television stations and If the aerial signal is only marginal, teletext pages may is transmitted together with the television signal in the form exhibit disturbances. If finetuning the television brings no of texts, graphic representations and subtitles which are vis- improvement, have your aerial system checked.
Teletext Selecting teletext FLOF-Text Mode Press the button. The Contents Page 100 or the teletext page you last viewed What is FLOF-Text? appears. At the bottom of the screen you will see four coloured fields. With FLOF-Text, you are guided by different colours that appear in the info-lines at the bottom of the screen.
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Teletext This page provides you with an overview of the block and Page-Catching group pages currently offered by the teletext service. For tele- text without TOP, only the numbers of the transmitted pages are displayed. This function allows you to select a teletext page without Select the desired line with the | , ] , button entering the corresponding page number.
Teletext When the message "Update" appears in the information line, Select the symbol by pressing the button. press the button. Using the numbered buttons, enter the desired four-digit The updated teletext page appears. subpage number. For example, enter the sequence 0002 for the second page.
Press the following buttons on the remote control handset You will see this on the TV screen Explanations 1. Call up the "GRUNDIG Infocenter". Infocenter By pressing the button, you can return to the current programme at...
Convenient Functions Press the following buttons on the remote control handset You will see this on the TV screen Explanations 3.1 Blocking programmes unfit You can block the broadcasts at any for children time. If now a programme unfit for children is a) Enter code as four places.
Convenient Functions Press the following buttons on the remote control handset You will see this on the TV screen Explanations … d) Switch to TV viewing mode. The television automatically switches off at the programmed time and can only be used again when you enter your personal identification code.
With the ] button it is still possible to select all programme Calling up the Special Functions menu positions. Call up the GRUNDIG Infocenter by pressing the “ button. Volume Continue to press the cursor button | or ] until "Special If you receive a programme whose volume deviates from Functions"...
Convenient Functions The PIP menu Call up the "Special Functions" menu as described on page 24 and select the "PIP-Menu" option. Press the button to call up the PIP menu. PIP-Menu Frame colour white Position left bottom Select Terminate In the PIP menu, you can adjust the frame colour and the position of the small picture (see following chapter).
Convenient Functions Freeze-frame The IDTV Menu See page 25. Zoom Program scan With this function, you can select a section of the picture and This fun ction allows you to call up nine different program- enlarge then move it, including freeze-frames. mes as small pictures (freeze-frame without sound) and the associated progamme names (abbreviations) on the picture Press the...
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Convenient Functions Line flicker reduction Comb filter Television sets operate according to the interlaced scanning When the PAL television system was introduced, it was the process, which means that two frames each are combined to most superior system available. Even today it still offers one picture.
Connection Capabilities and Operation ..for Satellite Receiver ...for Video Recorder 8Ω S-VIDEO FBAS AUDIO 8Ω EURO - AV S-VIDEO FBAS AUDIO EURO - AV AUDIO EURO-AV EURO-AV EURO-AV Connection Connection Connect your satellite receiver to the black or blue AV socket Connect the video recorder with an AV cable to the black or using a suitable cable.
Connection Capabilities and Operation ... … for Camcorder (VHS, Video 8) … for S-VHS Video Recorder, S-VHS Camcorder or Hi8 Camcorder 8Ω 8Ω S-VIDEO FBAS S-VIDEO FBAS AUDIO AUDIO EURO - AV EURO - AV Preparation Preparation Video signal Video signal Connect the FBAS socket with the corresponding video Connect the S-VIDEO socket with the corresponding video socket of the camcorder.
Connection Capabilities and Operation ... Operation Copying Video Recordings via the Television Use the button to select the desired input socket: = Euro-AV socket (black); indication A1 = blue socket; indication A2 = FBAS socket; indication A3. = S-VIDEO socket; indication A4. 8Ω...
Connection Capabilities and Operation ... … for Descrambler (Decoder) 8Ω S-VIDEO FBAS AUDIO EURO - AV Certain television stations scramble their programmes, "Descrambler on Mono-L" meaning that the sound and picture signals your television For mono-L, the left sound channel is switched to both receives are purposely distorted.
Connection Capabilities and Operation ..for Video Recorder ... for Satellite Receiver ... for Descrambler (Decoder) ... for 12 V Power Supply (Mains Unit) 8Ω S-VIDEO FBAS AUDIO EURO - AV SAT RECEIVER VIDEO RECORDER EURO-AV EURO-AV AUDIO DECODER EURO-AV ...with several external units 12 V input...
Units so altered no longer conform to applicable safety regulations and may not be operated. Supplied Accessory: 2 Surround Boxes with cables and connectors. GRUNDIG Optional Accessory: BoxesPD 1 (as front boxes for DOLBY PRO LOGIC mode). For installation and connection, see pages 13 and 14.
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