Home Screen Overview - Philips 8949 Series User Manual

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1. Home Screen
Overview
To enjoy the benefits of your Smart TV, connect the TV to
the Internet. Press  (Home) on your remote control to
get your Home screen. Like on your smartphone or
tablet, the Home screen is the centre of your TV. From
the Home screen you can decide what to watch by
browsing entertainment options from apps.
The Home screen is organized in rows to let you discover
great contents from your favourite apps. Apps may
populate their recommendation (if available) according
to their own choice as an individual row in the home
screen.
Highlights on your home screen
With multiple tabs like Home, Channels, Apps
and  Search, you can discover movies and shows from
your services and popular apps.The Channels tab is a
collection of free online contents including news, TV and
movies, life style, entertainment, sports, music, kid and
comedy channels. The Apps tab is an app collection to let
you rent movies online, read newspapers, watch videos
and listen to music, also shop online, or watch TV
programmes when it suits you with On-line TV. You can
also trigger input field for searching with  Search tab.
Favourite Apps
Your favourite Apps are placed on the first row. This row
contains number of apps pre-installed. The order of
these apps are according to business agreements with
content service providers. In this row you will also find
the Apps, like Watch TV, Internet Browser, Media and
others.
YouTube and Netflix
This row contains your Recommended, Subscriptions or
Trending YouTube and Netflix videos.
Accessing settings from Home
You can access All Settings menu via the icon at the top
right corner. You can also find the Frequent settings and
Quick menu with common settings in the Philips TV
Menu, which can be invoked directly from the remote
control.
TV Guide
Select  TV Guide to open the TV Guide of your
installed TV channels.
Sources
Select  SOURCES to view and change to available
sources in this TV.
Note:
• If your installed country is Germany or France, there will
be additional Public Value tab on home screen to list
Featured apps.
• If your installed country is UK, there will be additional
TV Guide tab on home screen to link the TV Guide of
your installed TV channels.
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