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1. Home Screen
1.1. Introduction
To enjoy the benefits of your Google Display, connect
the display to the Internet. Press HOME on your
remote control to get your Home screen. Like on your
Android smartphone or tablet, the Home screen is the
centre of your display. From the Home screen you can
decide what to watch by browsing entertainment
options from app and live TV.
The Home screen is organized in rows to let you discover
great contents from your favorite apps. You can also add
additional rows or find new apps to get more contents.
Apps may populate their recommendation (if available)
according to their own choice as an individual rows in
the home screen.
Highlights on your home screen
With multiple tabs like Search, For you, Films, Display
Shows, Apps and Library, you can discover movies and
shows from your services and popular apps. Sign in to
your Google Account to get personalised
recommendations from your streaming services based
on what you have watched and what interests you. You
can also trigger Google search with voice or text input
in Search tab.
Apps
The Apps tab of Home screen contains all installed Apps
that come with the display and the Apps you have
installed from Google Play™ Store. You can also install
and add more apps as favorite from the Apps tab.
Navigation
Decide what to watch next with easy-to-use navigation.
Browse your personalised recommendations, pick up
where you left off, or quickly find a certain app using the
new tab system.
Discover personalised recommendations
Browse shows and movies that you will love on all your
favorite media services. Sign in to your Google Account
to get started.
Get recommendations across Google
Your services are saved to your Google Account so you
can get better recommendations across Google.
See also www.support.google.com/googletv
1.2. Dashboard and Settings
Dashboard
The Dashboard is a side panel in Google Display that
provides access to Settings, device controls, notifications
and more.
The Dashboard can be accessed in three ways as follows:
1 - Navigating to the profile icon in the upper right of the
home screen.
2 - Press DASHBOARD key on the remote control.
3 - Long press HOME key on the remote control.
The dashboard contains following features.
• Profile: to display current user profile icon or to add
new user profile
• Settings: to access all setting menus for adjusting the
display settings.
• Clock and screensaver: to indicate the system clock
and press to activate screen saver immediately.
• Sources: to launch the input source list for switching to
any of the connected devices.
• Picture: quick link to adjust picture settings.
• Notifications: to provide you the messages about the
Google Display system; press Clear all to dismiss all
notifications.
Adjust settings
You can access Settings menu via the dashboard at the
top right corner. Alternately, you can access the
Frequent settings menu and common menu items in the
Philips display Menu, which can be invoked directly from
the remote control.
1.3. Google display and Basic
Mode
Difference of feature
You can set your display to Google Display mode
or Basic Mode.
Basic Mode contains only Live TV and External devices
(e.g. HDMI) features. Google Display requires you to
login with your Google account and Internet connection.
With Google Display, you can have all Basic Mode
features and more Google's personalised services. For
example, movies and display shows from your favorite
streaming apps, personalised recommendations, and
Google Assistant to search and control your display with
your voice.
Some features are not available in Basic Mode. For more
information, please refer to
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