Real Flat Television 29PT8836 User manual
IMPORTANT Before you begin: Make sure your package includes the following items:TV and mains cord, remote control, user manual, antenna cable (optional) and Coaxial cable (optional). Attention: 1. Read your manual first – your Philips TV comes with a well-designed remote control and onscreen display to ensure your TV is easy to operate. 2. The tips provided in this manual will save you time and money as charges for TV installation and adjustments of customer controls are not covered under the warranty.
Table of Contents General Peripherals Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Useful Tips . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Video recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Other equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 What’s Hot Picture Scanning mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Safety information • – – – – – Disconnect mains plug when : the indicator light below the TV screen is flashing continuously. a bright white line is displayed across the screen. there is a lightning storm. the set is left unattended for a prolonged period of time. cleaning the TV screen. Never use abrasive cleaning agents. Use a slight damp chamois leather or soft cloth. • No naked flame sources, such as lighted candles, should be placed on top of the TV or in the vicinity.
What’s Hot Picture scanning Your Philips TV has been built with scanning features to enhance your TV viewing. All you need is to select your desired mode to enjoy sharper and clearer pictures. The description below will help you make your choice.
Installing your television set Positioning the television set Remote control 10 cm 10 cm 10 cm Place your TV on a solid, stable surface, leaving a space of at least 10 cm around the appliance. Connections Insert the two R6-type batteries (supplied) making sure that they are the right way round. The batteries supplied with this appliance do not contain mercury or nickel cadmium. If you have access to a recycling facility, please do not discard your used batteries (if in doubt, consult your dealer).
Remote control keys Standby Lets you place the TV set on standby. To turn on the TV, press CH + or –, , AV, A/CH or digit keys. Personal Zapping You can surf up to 10 personal channels for each key (p. 12) Sleeptimer Selects a period of time after which the TV will go into standby mode automatically. Add Personal Zapping list Adds and stores channels into Personal Zapping list (p. 12). Smart Sound Used to access a series of stored settings:Theatre, Music,Voice or Personal. Menu To call up or exit menus.
Auto Store This menu is used to store all available channels automatically. & Press the key. é With the cursor, select the Install menu and follow by the Auto Store. “ Use the key to start auto store. All the available TV channels will be stored automatically. This operation takes a few minutes. The display shows the progress of the search and the number of channels found. ‘To quit the menus, press . If no channels are found, consult the possible solutions on p.15.
Sort This feature allows you to rearrange channels according to your preference. & Press the key. The Main menu is displayed on the screen. é With the cursor, select the Install menu followed by the Sort menu. or key to select the “ Use the channel number you want to change 7 from (e.g. 001) and confirm selection with the key. ‘ Use the or key to select the channel number you want to change to (e.g. 004) and confirm selection with the key. The change is done.
Channel edit This feature allows you to skip or edit channels which have bad or weak TV signal or channels you do not watch often. Press the key. The Main menu is displayed on the screen. With the cursor, select the Install menu followed by the Edit menu. Enter into the menu and select the channel number you wish to skip by the digit keys. Then use the key to select Skipped. Use the key to select On. Repeat steps and for each channel you wish to skip. To quit the menus, press .
Picture settings & Press then . The Picture menu will be called up. Description of the adjustments: • Brightness: this changes picture brillance. • Colour: this changes the intensity of the colour. • Contrast: this changes the difference between the light and dark tones. • Sharpness: this changes the picture definition. • Hue: this adjusts the skin colour tone in NTSC channel. • Colour Temp.: this changes the colour rendering: Cold(bluer), Normal(balanced) or Warm(redder).
Timer Function This feature allows you to set the timer to switch to a channel at a specified time while you are watching another channel or when the TV is on standby mode. Note:Timer will be disabled once the set is switched off. & Press , use the key to select Features and press the key. The Features menu is displayed. é Use the key to select Timer. Description of function: Time: enter the current time. Start Time: enter the time for the TV to switch on or to switch channel.
Format This feature enhances your viewing pleasure by providing you with a choice of two picture formats:- 4:3 and Expand 4:3. & Press , use the or key to select Features and press the key. The Features menu is displayed. é Use the key to select Format and press the key to select 4:3 or Expand 4:3. “ Press the key to exit. Description of function: 4:3 – select this format if you want to display a conventional picture using the full surface of the screen.
Demo The screen is split to dramatically show the comparative images side by side. The split screen display shows the image performance before and after enhancements to present clearly the effects of the picture enhancement features. without picture enhancements & Enter Features menu as described in “Features settings” on the previous page. é Use the key to select Demo and ` key to select On or Off.
Personal Zapping A list or series of favourite TV programs can be selected and stored in the 4 coloured keys with the Personal Zapping feature. With this feature you can easily viewed up to a total of 10 preferred channels for each coloured key. To add channels: & Select a channel with the digit keys. to display list. é Press “ Press your favourite colour key to store the channel in step &. ‘ Repeat steps &to “ to store more channels. to exit.
Connecting peripheral equipment The television has 4 sets of external sockets situated at the back of the set (AV1 in, AV2 in, YPbPr and Monitor out). The AV1 in has Y, Pb, Pr and audio and video inputs. The AV2 in has S-Video, audio and video inputs. The Y, Pb, Pr has Y, Pb, Pr input (refer to details in “What’s Hot” section). The Monitor out socket has audio and video outputs.
Connecting peripheral equipment Other equipment Carry out the connections shown opposite. To optimise picture quality, connect the equipment which produces the video signals (digital decoder, games, etc) to AV1 IN and equipment which produces the S-VHS signals (S-VHS and Hi-8 video recorders, certain DVD drives to AV2 IN and all other equipment to either AV1 IN or AV2 IN.
Tips Poor reception The proximity of mountains or high buildings may be responsible for ghost pictures, echoing or shadows. In this case, try manually adjustingyour picture: see Fine Tuning (p. 7) or modify the orientation of the outside aerial. Does your antenna enable you to receive broadcasts in this frequency range (UHF or VHF band)? In the event of difficult reception (snowy picture) switch the NR on the Picture menu to ON (p. 9).
Glossary 4:3 Refers to the ration between the length and the height of the screen. Wide screen televisions have a ration of 16:9 while conventional televisions have a ratio of 4:3. 4:3 Expand The images recorded in “letterbox” format are expanded to fill the entire screen and the black horizontal bars at the top and bottom are removed.
Specifications Side Connections • S-Video • Video and Audio inputs • Headphone out Product type 29PT8836 PICTURE • Picture screen diameter: 29” (720 mm) • Visible screen size: 27” (680 mm) • Picture Tube: Real Flat 4:3 • 100 Hz • Progressive Scan (Auto Switching with manual override) • Scan Velocity Modulation • 3D Digital Combfilter • 3:2 Pulldown • EDDI - Smoothing Edge De-interlacer • Contrast • Active Control Plus with Luminance Transient Improver (LTI) • Colour Transient Improver (CTI) • Colour Temper
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