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  • Page 1 Projection Television Users Guide C43WP910TN C55WP910TN S C R E E N S C R E E N...

  • Page 3: Picture Cautions

    Being the next step forward from analogue sound, digital sounds sonic realism and listener involvement will change the way you experience sound from your Hitachi television. Digital sound works by delivering at maximum 5 separate audio channels - left, right, centre, left surround, right surround and also a LFE (Low Frequency Effects) channel.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Left and right external speakers............40 DVD, CD and Laser Disc connection ..........41 Camcorder ..................42 Signal Source Entry ................43 television information Trouble Shooting Guide - Digital Sound..........45 Trouble Shooting Guide - Television Operation ........47 Guarantee ..................48 Hitachi Environmental Notice ............49 Technical Data..................50...
  • Page 5 This television has been designed and manufactured to meet international safety standards, but like any electrical equipment, care must be taken if you are to obtain the best results and safety is to be assured. DO read the operating instructions before you attempt to use the equipment. DO ensure that all connections, (including the mains plug, extension leads and inter-connections between the pieces of equipment), are properly made and in accordance with the manufacturers instructions...

  • Page 6: Battery Installation

    Projection TV’s are heavy and can mark or damage floor surfaces (especially wood flooring) if moved improperly. Do not slide or force TV into position. Always roll TV allowing castors at bottom of unit to help steer and position TV. Use the adjuster leg (shown right) for stability once TV has been positioned.

  • Page 7: Aerial Connection

    aerial connection receiving aerial connect aerial connection lead to the analogue‘in’ socket marked aerial wall socket aerial and VCR connection receiving aerial connect VCR ‘out’ to analogue TV socket ‘in’ marked aerial wall socket Video Cassette Recorder connect aerial (this should be connection lead to plugged the analogue‘in’...

  • Page 8: Television Safety

    Scart leads are essential if you have a stereo TV and VCR and wish to obtain stereo sound from your equipment. These leads can also be purchased from your Hitachi dealer or any good electrical retailer. VHS video equipment should be connected to the AV2 scart socket located at the rear of your TV. A dedicated program number may be assigned to AV2, allowing you easier access to view external equipment broadcasts.
  • Page 9 With a Satellite receiver select Sky News. These measures ensure that all your external equipment is tuned in during the autotune procedure. To make your program tuning easier, HITACHI have installed an automatic tuning procedure to find the programs.
  • Page 10 ...notes on manual tuning As well as an automatic tuning procedure, your HITACHI television also allows you to input broadcast frequencies through a number of different entry methods. Follow the steps below and choose one of the 5 entry methods to input broadcast frequencies.
  • Page 11 TV's memory by pressing the confirmation button. To return to normal TV operation press the television button on your handset. Your Hitachi television will support the following broadcast standards and frequencies reception systems 1. BG, DK, H, I PAL, 2.
  • Page 12 television controls door panel To use the controls push the door in and release..notes on magic focus The magic focus of your television has to be adjusted after all programs have been tuned in to ensure quality of your televisions picture.This adjustment should be made for each display mode that can AUDIO IN...
  • Page 13 The handset controls shown below are used when programming your TV and to adjust the sound and picture features. other accept equipment Use these This button is used buttons for control of to confirm a your VCR, Digital TV highlighted and Set Top Box selection.
  • Page 14 The handset controls shown here are used when your TV is in normal operation. Please Note: Items marked are not available on this model. 16:9 button standby This button Used to switch allows you to switch your TV in and out of between the various standby mode.
  • Page 15 The handset controls shown here are used when you are operating Teletext. dual page colours When in (red, green, Teletext mode, press yellow, blue) once to display the On certain pages in current page and the teletext, these will have next in the magazine, coded instructions i.e.

  • Page 16: Picture Controls

    For picture and sound values, moving the cursor left will decrease values, whilst moving the cursor right will increase values. Also note that in the COLOUR adjustment the first two steps of the control bar will have a dramatic effect. This is normal operation. Press the MENU button to obtain MAIN MENU.
  • Page 17 Press and hold the MENU button for 5 seconds. The INSTALL option in the MAIN MENU appears. Press the cursor down button to select INSTALL. Once highlighted, accept selection. Press the cursor down button to select MANUAL SETUP. Once highlighted, accept selection. Select your program to swap by moving the selection bar using the up/down cursor buttons over a channels...

  • Page 18: Program Name Change

    ...notes on program name change Program name change can be very useful if you connect external equipment to your television. For example, if you have a DVD player connected, you can allocate the name ‘DVD’ to the program number allocated for that piece of external equipment. Press and hold the MENU button for 5 seconds.
  • Page 19 ...notes on nicam features Nicam is a method for transmitting and receiving stereo sound. If your TV is unable to receive Nicam because of the wrong geography, climate etc., or when Nicam in not transmitted in your location it will produce a monaural sound source. stereo monaural This effect produces nicam digital...

  • Page 20: Sound Mode

    Press the MENU button to obtain MAIN MENU. Press the cursor down button to select AUDIO. Once highlighted, accept selection. Select the control to be adjusted by using the up/down cursor buttons. Once highlighted, adjust the chosen controls by pressing the right/left cursor buttons. volume control This control is used to increase, or decrease the sound from your TV's speakers.
  • Page 21 Select the mode or sound frequency to be adjusted by using the up/down cursor buttons. Once highlighted, adjust the chosen controls by pressing the right/left cursor buttons. mode You have a choice of 3 individual ‘modes’ which can be adjusted to suit personal needs. Set a complete range value (detailed below) and your TV will remember the settings in the appropriate mode number.
  • Page 22 ...notes on sound mode The Sound Mode menu is used to adjust and display the signal sources available from your TV’s speakers, whether the output be analogue or digital. Press the MENU button to obtain MAIN MENU. Press the cursor down button to select SOUND MODE.
  • Page 23 digital options in sound mode When your television is switched to an AV scart input whose decode mode is set to AUTO/DIGITAL and a digital signal source is connected and playing on the coaxial or optical connectors, the options found in the SOUND MODE menu become dependant on the type of digital signal being received.

  • Page 24: Speaker Setup

    ...notes on speaker setup The Speaker Setup menu allows you to customise the televisions audio performance to your own requirements. These requirements might be the use of external amplifiers on one or more sound channels, or to use alternative speakers. This menu can help you organise the bass (or ‘boom’) re- direction by specifying whether large, small or no speaker at all has been connected.
  • Page 25 ...notes on speaker environment display your TV and internal speakers external left speaker external right speaker seating position see ...notes on seating position external right surround speaker external left surround speaker no sound from speaker sound from speaker The other available Speaker Setup menus will also show an accompanying display and this will also be affected by the adjustments you make to the available controls To view other Speaker Setup options use the up/down buttons to highlight MORE...
  • Page 26 Select the control to be adjusted by using the up/down cursor buttons. Once highlighted, adjust the chosen controls by pressing the right/left cursor buttons. Sub-Woofer Volume The sub woofer channel carries the Bass or ‘Boom’ sound effect information when enabled. If you have one connected, use this control to adjust your sub-woofers volume.
  • Page 27 To view other Speaker Setup options use the up/down buttons to highlight MORE... Once highlighted, accept selection. To return to normal TV operation without viewing other options press the television button on your handset. Select the control to be adjusted by using the up/down cursor buttons.

  • Page 28: Digital Audio Setup

    ...notes on digital audio setup The Digital Audio Setup menu allows you to control the sound output of any external equipment you have connected through the Audio Visual sockets. For example, if the connection from your external equipment to the television is via AV1, the Digital Audio source should be set as AV1. Press and hold the MENU button for 5 seconds.

  • Page 29: Digital Audio Status - Display Format

    Also note that when using a Laserdisc player in conjunction with an RF demodulator to decode Dolby digital sound, Hitachi recommend putting the Decode mode to DIGITAL. This will avoid dropping in and out of analogue sound while searching or pausing the disc that is playing.
  • Page 30 This chart explains what sound channels are present when listening to the connected external equipment which has a digital output. These values can be viewed by pressing the INFO button on your handset when a digital signal is being received.
  • Page 31 For viewing such widescreen picture formats, Hitachi recommend the C16:9L mode. DVD players will normally give an option of either 4:3 or 16:9 output mode (dependant on player and software - please refer to player instructions) For a full 16:9 picture, Hitachi recommend using the 16:9 mode.
  • Page 32 ...notes on wide screen features Your viewing format can be selected manually by simply pressing the key on your handset to scroll through the viewing format options See the examples below for the available viewing formats. Please Note: In the broadcast formats..C means CENTRE L means LETTERBOX S means STRETCHED broadcast...
  • Page 33 ...notes on Sleep Timer This feature is used to automatically place your TV into standby mode after a set number of minutes - use the right/left cursor buttons to set the timer between 5 and 120 minutes.When the timer has only a minute left this will be shown on the screen as a countdown from 59 seconds to zero, after which your TV’s status will be standby.
  • Page 34 Also, your Hitachi television can store upto 100 Teletext pages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Rumanian, Swedish, Finnish, and Turkish are avaiable) which allows quick and easy access to any page.

  • Page 35: Teletext Dual

    ...notes on teletext dual page feature At Hitachi we are committed to the constant development of our televisions capabilities. One of the features developed for the benefit of you, the customer, is the expansion of the Teletext service from a one page screen display to a feature that can be manipulated in a number of ways.
  • Page 36 Please Note: a standard 50Hz picture is not available on your model Progressive Scan Hitachi’s Progressive Scan TV’s are constantly thinking ahead, filling in all the 625 scan lines in one go to make up a complete frame. This progressive addition of extra line information produces a picture that is brighter, more detailed than conventional televisions and displays the picture without the line ‘flicker’...
  • Page 37 television controls door panel To use the controls push the door in and release. TV mode light infra-red lens This will be dimly lit when your TV is on and brightly This is for reading lit when in standby mode, and flash when a function from commands sent your remote control is being sent to the TV.
  • Page 38 important note It is very important that the AV menu setup is adjusted correctly when connecting external equipment to your TV - the incorrect setting may lead to picture breaking and splitting. It must also be noted that when this external equipment is a VCR or camcorder, and your VCR mode is set to ‘ON’...

  • Page 39: Audio Visual Setup

    rear view of projection television Before connecting external equipment, please consult Audio Visual Setup. Also note that interference may occur to the picture in the following conditions... •when another TV is connected to the same external equipment and picture is being viewed at the same time.
  • Page 40 rear view of projection television plastic dust cap This is used to protect the optical digital connection from foreign bodies. The plastic dust cap protecting the optical digital in socket has to be removed before connection with external equipment. DO NOT THROW THE DUST COVER AWAY. KEEP THE DUST COVER AWAY FROM YOUNG CHILDREN.
  • Page 41 ...notes on disc playing equipment The Audio Visual output of a Digital Versatile Disc, Compact Disc, or laser disc can be connected to any of the 4 Audio Visual sockets of your TV, but for better quality it is recommended that they are connected to either scart sockets AV1, AV2, or AV3 If digital Audio, such as PCM, Dolby Digital, DTS or MPEG multichannel is to be employed, a special connection will need to be made to your television.

  • Page 42: Camcorder

    Before connecting external equipment, please consult audio visual setup. camcorder Connecting a camcorder to your TV is easy. First, identify the type of camcorder and its connecting sockets. If it is a standard 8mm type camera then this is likely to have 'RCA' type sockets.

  • Page 43: Signal Source Entry

    ...notes on signal source entry Each piece of external equipment connected to your TV must have its own input socket. It would also be easier, and more organised, if the external equipment connected also had its own program number. Signal Source entry allows us to tell the allocated program what equipment is connected to which socket.
  • Page 44 option 2 AV2 is the signal source used when connecting external equipment (eg. VCR) through a scart lead to the AV2 socket at the rear of your TV. option 3 AV3 is the signal source used when connecting external equipment such as satellite decoders through a scart lead to the AV3 socket at the rear of your TV.
  • Page 45 problem identification possible cause remedy No or poor digital connection See ‘DVD, CD and LaserDisc 1. No digital audio. Pressing between television and external player connection’ the info/recall button on your equipment handset doesn’t show Digital Set the Decode Mode to Incorrect Decode Mode audio modes or format in top correct AV (see Decode...
  • Page 46 problem identification possible cause remedy 6. One or more of the rear The disc placed in your external This is normal operation equipment has no surround channels is not working. information on it. The rear speakers are switched Check the Speaker Setup off.
  • Page 47 answers questions Check that your plug is connected to the socket Why won't my TV switch on? and switched on,check fuse and make sure TV is not in standby mode (see below). Make sure there are no obstructions between the handset and the TV's infra-red lens, or the Why doesn't my remote control handset work? batteries may be exhausted - replace the whole set of batteries.

  • Page 48: Guarantee

    TV. Also, record where and when you purchased this T.V. This information will help any future queries you may have and should be used in all correspondence with Hitachi service centres. MODEL...
  • Page 49 E n v i r o n m e n t a l N o t i c e Hitachi are signatories to the commitment made by the consumer electronics industry on reducing energy consumption by televisions and video recorders on standby.
  • Page 50 C55WP910TN = 130Kg Dimensions C43WP910TN (W x D x H) ............1042 x 470 x 1255 (mm) C55WP910TN (W x D x H) ............1308 x 668 x 1399 (mm) Remote Control Batteries................2 X HITACHI UM-4 (equivalent ‘AA’) Optical/Coaxial Digital Input Data...
  • Page 51 Luminance input Chrominance ground Luminance ground Frame ground Due to the continual development of Hitachi products the features, functions and specifications of the television models in this guide are subject to change without notice. Weights and dimensions shown are approximate.
  • Page 54 Fax: +46 (0) 8 562 711 13 Tel: +39 02 38073415 Servizio Clienti Email: csgswe@hitachi-eu.com Fax: +39 02 48786381/2 Email: customerservice.italy@hitachi-eu.com HITACHI EUROPE S.A.S HITACHI EUROPE LTD (Norway) AB Lyon Office STRANDVEIEN 18 B.P. 45, 69671 BRON CEDEX 1366 Lysaker FRANCE...

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