What Is Teletext; Operating The Teletext Basics; Turning On And Off Teletext; Selecting And Operating Teletext - Pioneer PDP-505XDE User Manual

Using the Teletext Functions

What is Teletext?

Teletext broadcasts pages of information and entertainment
to specially equipped television sets. Your Plasma Display
System receives Teletext signals broadcast by TV networks,
and decodes them into graphical format for viewing. News,
weather and sports information, stock exchange prices and
programme previews are among many services available.
TELETEXT
TELETEXT

Operating the Teletext basics

Turning on and off Teletext

1
Select a TV channel or external input source providing a
Teletext programme.
2 Press m to display the Teletext (full screen).
3 Press m again to display the Teletext on the right
screen and normal image on the left screen.
• Each time you press m, the screen switches as
shown to the left.
• If you select a programme with no Teletext signal,
"Cannot display Teletext." appears.
Selecting and operating Teletext pages
Use the following remote control buttons to select and
operate Teletext pages.
Colour (RED/GREEN/YELLOW/BLUE):
You can select a group or block of pages displayed in the
coloured brackets at the bottom of the screen by pressing the
corresponding colour (RED/GREEN/YELLOW/BLUE) on
the remote control unit.
0 – 9:
Directly select any page from 100 to 899 by using 0 – 9.
w/x:
Selects the next or previous page.
v:
Each time you press v, the teletext image switches as
shown below.
Full
Upper half
Lower half
k:
To display hidden information such as an answer to a quiz,
press k.
• Press k again to hide the information.
:
To stop updating Teletext pages, press
• Press again to release the hold mode.
l
:
Displays an Index page for the CEEFAX/FLOF format. Displays
a TOP Over View page for the TOP format.
• Before displaying the Teletext, return the screen to the
single-screen mode.
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