Usb Recording - Philips 32PFL9606H User Manual

3.5 USB recording

What is USB recording ?
With this TV you can pause a live TV broadcast from a digital
channel. You pause live TV to watch it later on.
Simply connect a USB hard drive device to your TV and you can
pause the live broadcast.
If your TV is connected to the Internet, you can also record or
set a programmed recording of a digital broadcast.
What you need
Smart USB recording and Pause live TV only work with digital TV
channels (DVB broadcast or similar).
To pause
To pause a live digital broadcast you need to connect a USB
hard drive. Use a USB 2.0 compatible hard drive device with a
minimum of 32GB hard drive space. Connect the USB hard drive
to one of the two USB connectors on the side of the TV.
To record
To record programmes, you need a USB 2.0 compatible hard
drive with 250GB and a high-speed (broadband) Internet
connection to the TV.
Read more about connecting to the network in Help > Setup >
Network.
Installation
Before you can pause or record a broadcast you must format
the connected USB hard drive.
1 Connect the USB hard drive to one of the two USB ports on
the side of the TV. Do not connect another USB device to the
other USB port when formatting.
2 Switch on the device and the TV.
3 When the TV is tuned to a digital TV channel, press U (Pause)
to start formatting. Formatting will remove all data from the
connected USB hard drive. Follow the instructions on screen.
When the USB hard drive is formatted, leave the device
connected permanently.
Warning
Once the USB hard drive is formatted for this TV, you cannot
use the stored recordings on another TV. Do not copy or change
recording files on the USB hard drive with any PC application.
This will corrupt your recordings.
Pause live TV
While watching a live TV broadcast from a digital channel, you
can pause the broadcast and continue watching later on. Answer
a phone call or take a break. Meanwhile, the broadcast is stored
on the USB hard drive. You can pause a broadcast for a
maximum time span of 90 minutes.
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To pause a live TV broadcast, press U (Pause). A progress bar
appears briefly on screen.
To call up the progress bar, press U (Pause) again.
To continue watching, press x (Play).
To switch to live TV broadcast again, press S (Stop).
Once you switch to a digital channel, the USB hard drive starts
storing the broadcast. When you switch to another channel, the
new channel broadcast is stored and the broadcast of the former
channel is cleared. Also when you switch the TV to standby, the
stored broadcast is cleared.
When you start watching a programme of another device - a
connected Blu-ray Disc player or digital receiver - the USB hard
drive clears all broadcast storage.
Whilst recording a programme on the USB hard drive, you
cannot pause a live TV broadcast.
Instant replay
Whilst watching a live TV broadcast from a digital channel, you
can easily instant replay the broadcast.
To replay the last 10 seconds of a live TV broadcast, press U
(Pause) and press w (Left).
You can press w repeatedly until you reach the start of the
broadcast storage or the maximum time span.
Progress bar
With the progress bar on screen, press T (Rewind) or press Q
(Forward) to select from where you want to start viewing the
stored broadcast. Press these keys repeatedly to change their
speed.
Specifics
The Audio Description audio (commentary) for the visually
impaired is not available for playback in Smart USB Recording.
Recording
More TV / USB recording