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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    About connections 30 Connect your devices with the Connection assistant 31 Connect your devices without the Connection assistant 31 Connection setup 37 PC network 38 Technical data 44 Troubleshooting 46 Index 48 Register your product and get support at www.philips.com/welcome.
  • Page 2 Philips is committed to develop, produce and market products that cause no adverse health effects. Philips confirms that if its products are handled properly for their intended use, they are safe to use according to scientific evidence available today.

  • Page 3: Important

    Important Read this user manual before you start to use this product. Pay attention to this section and closely follow the instructions. The warranty does not apply to damage caused by not taking into account the instructions. Safety • To avoid short circuit, do not expose the product to rain or water.

  • Page 4: Your Tv

    Your TV This section gives you an overview of the controls and functions of this TV. Television overview Controls LightGuide Indicator light Remote control sensor Volume up and down Menu Program/Channel up and down Power switch Connectors Back connectors Side connectors For more info see section 7 Connections.

  • Page 5: Product Highlights

    Product highlights Your new TV is equipped with some of the most modern audio or video innovations. Your TV offers the following advantages ... Full High Definition LCD display A full HD resolution of 1920x1080p, the highest resolution of HD sources. It offers a brilliant flicker- free progressive scan picture with optimum brightness and superb colours.

  • Page 6: Wall Mounting - Vesa

    ) Caution Consider the TV’s weight when you wall mount it. Improper mounting can result in severe injury or damage. Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. bears no responsibility for improper mounting or mounting that results in accident or injury. Your TV is prepared for VESA compliant wall mounting.

  • Page 7: Remote Control Batteries

    Remote control batteries ‡ Open the battery cover on the back of the remote control. ® Insert the 2 batteries supplied (Type AAA-R03- 1,5V). Make sure the + and - ends of the batteries line up correctly (inside of case is marked.) Ò...

  • Page 8: Use Your Tv

    Use your TV Learn how to operate your TV for daily use. Turn on or off - Standby rNote The TV may take up to 15 seconds to turn on. To turn on the TV: • Press B Power at the right of the TV if the standby indicator is off.

  • Page 9: Watch Channels From A Digital Receiver

    Watch channels from a digital receiver ‡ Switch on the digital receiver. The picture from your receiver automatically appears on the screen. ® Use the remote control of your digital receiver to select TV channels. If the picture does not appear: ‡...

  • Page 10: Use More Of Your Tv

    Use more of your TV This section helps you perform advanced TV operations including how to: • use the menus • adjust picture and sound settings • make use of Teletext • create favourite channel lists Remote control 5.1.1 Remote control overview •...

  • Page 11: Lightguide Brightness

    16 Menu To switch the menu on or off 17 Info To show channel or programme information if available. 18 Dual screen b To show teletext on the right and the picture on the left of the screen. 19 Subtitle To activate or deactivate the subtitle mode.

  • Page 12: Picture And Sound Settings

    5.3.2 Use of the menu Learn to use the menus with this example. ‡ Press Menu. The TV menu appears on the screen. TV menu Smart settings Picture Sound Settings assistant Features Setup ® Press o or œ to select Picture. ÒPress π...
  • Page 13 5.4.3 Picture settings This section describes how to adjust all picture settings individually. ‡ Press Menu. ® Select Picture and press π to enter the list. Ò Press o or œ to select a setting. TV menu Picture Smart settings Contrast Picture Brightness...
  • Page 14 5.4.4 Widescreen picture format Avoid black bars on the sides or on top and bottom of the picture. Change the picture format to a format that fills the screen. ‡ Press q to switch on the Picture format menu. ® Press o or œ to select an available picture format.

  • Page 15: Teletext

    • Balance Sets the balance of the left and right loudspeakers to fit best your listening position. • Audio language A list of audio languages for the current programme may be available when digital channels are installed and broadcasted. To permanently change the audio language, see section 6 Channel installation.
  • Page 16 5.5.4 Dual screen teletext View the TV channel and teletext next to each other. ‡ Press b for Dual screen teletext. ® Press Teletext again to show normal teletext. Ò Press Teletext to switch off teletext. 5.5.5 Search teletext Quickly jump to a subject linked to a series of pagenumbers or search for specific words in teletext pages.

  • Page 17: Create Favourite Channel Lists

    Create favourite channel lists View the All channels list or set up a Favourite list of your own with your preferred TV channels and radio stations. 5.6.1 Select a favourite list You can select one of the favourite channel lists. ‡...

  • Page 18: Electronic Programme Guide

    Electronic Programme Guide - EPG - The Electronic Programme guide is an on screen guide to scheduled digital TV programmes. You can navigate, select and view programmes by time, title or genre. There are two types of EPG, ‘Now and Next’ and ‘7 or 8 day’ EPG. When digital channels are installed and broadcasted, EPG is available.

  • Page 19: Timers And Locks

    Timers and locks This section describes how to switch the TV on or off at a specified time and to lock or unlock the TV. 5.8.1 Automatically switch to standby Sleeptimer switches the TV to standby after a time. ‡ Press Menu on the remote control and select Features >...

  • Page 20: Subtitles

    Set an age rating to a digital programme Some digital broadcasters have their programmes rated (depending on your country). When the rating is higher than your child’s age, the programme will be locked. ‡ Select Custom lock. ® Press π to enter. Ò...

  • Page 21: Watch And Play Photos, Mp3

    Philips is not responsible if your USB device is not supported nor shall Philips accept any liability for damage or loss of stored data. See section 8 Technical data for the playback formats supported.

  • Page 22: Listen To Digital Radio Channels

    † Press o or œ, p or π to highlight a picture. º Press to watch the picture. ◊Press p to return to the thumbnail overview. ‹ Press the blue key again to go back to the picture list. Afrika_2001 Kenya.jpg Kenya.jpg Listen to music...

  • Page 23: 5.12 Software Update

    5.12 Software update Philips continually tries to improve its products. To benefit, update the TV software regularly. To update your TV software you need a USB Memory device (not supplied). Verify that your USB memory device has at least 48Mb free space. Make sure the write protection is switched off.
  • Page 24 † The update process starts automatically. Please wait. The update is finished when the message ‘Operation successful’ appears on the screen. º Remove the USB memory device from the TV. ◊Press B on the remote control. Do not press more than once and do not use the Power B switch on the TV.

  • Page 25: Channel Installation

    Channel installation The first time you turned on your TV • you have selected the language of the TV menus and the country where you are located • all the available TV Channels have been installed. This chapter provides instructions on how to reinstall channels as well as other useful channel installation features.
  • Page 26 Step 3 Clock, time zone and daylight saving selection Only available when the country selected supports digital broadcasts. Go to a next step if this step is not applicable. ‡ Press œ to select Clock. ® Press π to enter. Ò...

  • Page 27: Manual Channel Installation

    6.2.3 Fine tune a channel Fine tune a found channel when the reception is poor. ‡ Press Menu and select Setup > Installation > Channel installation > Analogue: manual installation > Fine tune. ® Press π to enter the Fine tune menu. Ò...

  • Page 28: Channel Management

    Channel management 6.4.1 Automatic search Once a day, at 3 AM, the TV searches for all available TV channels automatically. Leave your TV in standby. Earlier found channels are updated and new channels are stored. Channels not found by the search anymore are removed from the channel list.

  • Page 29: Connections (Dvd, Receiver

    Connections Connection overview Connections Side connectors Headphones Stereo Mini jack Audio L/R Audio L/R input to be used together with Video or S-Video on the side of the TV. Video Video input to be used together with the Audio L/R on the side of the TV. S-Video S-Video input to be used together with the Audio L/R on the side of the TV.

  • Page 30: About Connections

    About connections 7.2.1 What you need to know Connect your device with the highest possible quality connection. Look for the highest quality connection on your device. Use that connection to your TV. HDMI - Highest quality An HDMI connection has the best picture and sound quality.

  • Page 31: Connection Assistant

    S-Video - Good quality Use an S-Video cable together with an Audio L/R (cinch) cable. Match the cable colours when you connect. An S-Video cable Audio L/R cable - Red, White Video - Basic quality Use a Video (cinch) cable together with an Audio L/R (cinch) cable.
  • Page 32 7.4.1 DVD player Use a scart cable to connect the device to the input at the back of the TV. EXT1 EXT 3 EXT 2 SERVICE UART Y Pb Pr DIGITAL AUDIO AUDIO 7.4.2 DVD Recorder or Digital Receiver Use a scart cable and 2 antenna cables. EXT 3 EXT 2 SERVICE...
  • Page 33 7.4.4 DVD Recorder and Home Theatre System Use a scart cable, 2 antenna cables and 1 digital audio (cinch) cable. EXT 3 EXT 2 SERVICE UART Y Pb Pr DIGITAL DIGITAL AUDIO AUDIO AUDIO 7.4.5 DVD Recorder and DVD Home Theatre System Use 2 scart cables, 2 antenna cables and 1 digital audio (cinch) cable.
  • Page 34 7.4.7 HD Digital receiver / HD satellite receiver Use an HDMI cable and 2 antenna cables. NETWORK AUDIO HDMI HDMI 1 HDMI 2 HDMI 3 7.4.8 DVD-R, Home Theatre System and Digital receiver Use 3 scart cables, 3 antenna cables and 1 audio (cinch) cable.
  • Page 35 7.4.10 Game console The most practical connections for a game console are at the side of the TV. Connected at the side of the TV Use the HDMI connection or the S-Video and Audio L/R connections or the Video and Audio L/R connections.
  • Page 36 7.4.12 Personal Computer You can connect your PC directly to the TV. The TV works as a monitor of your PC. For more features you can connect your PC in a PC network. See section 7.7 PC network. As a monitor the PC can be connected at the side with a DVI to HDMI adaptor or with a PC to TV cable.

  • Page 37: Connection Setup

    Connection setup The TV needs to know what connections you have made and which device is connected to which connector. If you have used the Connection assistant the connection setup is already done. 7.5.1 Naming your devices Name the connected devices for easy selection and best signal handling.

  • Page 38: Pc Network

    8 Technical data, a step by step setting instruction is available in the online User manual. Type in your TV model number on www.philips.com/support. In the extended User manual see section 7.7 PC network. A firewall, a security system on your computer, could also block the network connection.
  • Page 39 7.6.4 Media server settings Media servers need to be set for sharing their files and folders. Follow the instructions closely to set your specific server. Windows Media Player v11on Windows Vista Set for network sharing In Windows Media Player select Library from the menu and select Media sharing.
  • Page 40 With Advanced Options open, you can add specific folders to the list to share. Click Add. In the Add Folder window select a folder with music, photos or videos you want to share with other devices (your TV). Click OK. In the Add To Library window the newly added folder is shown.
  • Page 41 In the Media Sharing window, check the Share my media box. When the TV is connected, by the router, to the PC and everything is switched On, the Media sharing window will show the TV as an Unkown Device. Select the device and click Allow. You can open the Settings window to change particular settings on sharing.
  • Page 42 Now everything is set to enjoy music, photos and videos on your TV. TVersity v.0.9.10.3 on Windows XP Set for network sharing Click the Settings tab and click the Start Sharing button. A pop-up window tells you that the media server service is started.
  • Page 43 Twonky Media v4.4.2 on Macintosh OS X Set for network sharing In Twonky Media click Basic Setup > First steps. In this window you can change the server name that appears on your TV. Click Basic Setup > Clients/Security. Check the box next to Enable sharing for new clients automatically.

  • Page 44: Technical Data

    • Macrovision Network Media Server (on Windows XP) • Fuppes (on Linux) • UShare (on Linix) • Philips Media Manager (on Microsoft Windows • Philips NAS SPD8020 * For this media server software a step by step setting instruction is available in the online User manual on www.philips.com/support.
  • Page 45 Power • Mains power: AC 220-240V (±10%) • Power and standby power consumption: See technical specification on www.philips.com • Ambient temperature: 5°C - 35°C Specifications are subject to change without notice. For more specification details of this product see www.philips.com/support.

  • Page 46: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting Television and remote control The TV does not switch on • Verify the mains cord connection. • Verify if the batteries of the remote control are not empty or weak.Verify their + / - orientation. You can use the keys on the TV to switch the TV on. •...
  • Page 47 If your problem is not solved Switch your TV off and on again, that may help. If not, call our Consumer Care or consult our website www.philips.com/support. Find the Consumer Care telephone numbers on the back cover of this manual.

  • Page 48: 10 Index

    10 Index 100 Hz Clear LCD 5,13 Active control 13 Advanced sharpness 13 Analogue manual installation 26 TV channels 26 Antenna cable 7 connect 7 with devices 32 Audio setup 37 Auto clock mode 25 Auto format 14 Automatic installation 25 Auto surround 15 Auto Volume levelling 15 Balance...
  • Page 49 Naming devices 37 Network setup 38 Noise reduction 13 OK key 10 On timer 19 Perfect Pixel HD 13 Personal Computer connect 36 display resolutions 44 Photo viewer 21 Picture album 21 format 13 menu 13 Position the TV 5 Power cable 7 Preferred audio format 25 Radio channel 22...

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