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COLOUR TELEVISIONS
C7 SERIES
NICAM STEREO
24”, 25”, 26”, 28”, 29”, 32”
Operating Instructions
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List of contents Special features 2 Safety instructions 3 Electrical connections 4 Getting started 5 Aerial connection 5 Switching on 5 Battery fitting 5 1 Control unit 6 Front and rear panel 6 External connections table 7 Remote control 7 Using the TV 8 Manual tuning 8 Automatic tuning 9 Child lock 9 Program table 10 TV controls 11 TV setup 12 Sound menu 12-14 Picture menu 14 Features menu 15 Picture format 16 Using teletext 17-18 Connecting external equipment 19-23 Help and service tips 24 Tec
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Television Thank you for buying this television which is designed to give you many years of satisfactory service. You may already be familiar with using a television but do please take time to read these instructions. They are designed to familiarise you with the unit’s many new features and to ensure you get the very best out of your purchase. Special features • Your TV can receive stereo channels directly (NICAM optional). • Automatic tuning system with country selection. • 100 Programme Mem
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Safety is Important Your safety and the safety of others is important. Please, therefore, ensure you read the Safetyinstructions before you operate this television. Safety instructions Read all the safety instructions before first use of your TV. ! • Position the television so that direct light does not fall on the screen. Excessive light will cause a washed out effect. • Position the power supply lead and other leads so that they are not likely to be walked on or pinched by things placed on or
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Electrical connections 1.SECTION: INSTALLATION AND IMPORTANT PRECAUTIONS The wires in this mains lead are coloured in accordance with the following code: ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS Blue - Neutral For your own safety read the following Brown - Live instructions carefully before attempting As the colours in the mains lead may to connect this unit to the mains supply. not correspond with the coloured markings For your convenience a mains plug with a identifying the terminals in your plu
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Getting started Remove your Television carefully Please Note When not in use disconnect the plug from the box. You may wish to from the mains power supply. store the packaging for future use. Press the Power button on the front of the TV . The In the box standby indicator will illuminate. Inside this package you should have: • Television Press a Numeric button or the • Remote control Program up or Program down • User guide button on the remote handset or • AAA batteries x 2 Program up or
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Control Unit Front Panel Program Down/Up button P- P+ Volume Down/Up button. V- V+ 6 General ON/OFF switch Stand by (Dependant on model) Stand by indicator External Connections: (Front or side) (External connections: (Rear) Dependant on model AV1 scart Right audio PHONO (Red) AV2 scart (Dependant on model) Left audio PHONO/Mono PHONO (White) Video PHONO (Yellow) Aerial socket S-Video connection Headphone socket Please note • See the external connections table on next page for available connectio
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External connections table Picture tube 24” 25” 26” 28” 28” 29” 32” size/typee 16:9 4:3 16:9 4:3 16:9 4:3 16:9 AV1 Scart STD. STD. STD. STD. STD. STD. STD. AV2 Scart X X X X STD. STD. STD. AV3 Scart XXX X XXX Headphone XXX X XXX socket Audio/Video XXX X XXX PHONO S-Video XXX X XXX socket 7 Back Audio XXX X XXX Out STD : STANDARD X : DEPENDANT ON MODEL Remote control Mute Standby Numeric OK Two digit AV Menu Swap Program up Volume up Volume down Program down Picture format TV/Teletext Personal pr
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Using the TV Note: Press the power button on the front of the TV. 1. The TV is controlled by a menu system. The Stand-by indicator will illuminate. 2. EACH menu has a use full prompt chart diagram attached. Press a numeric button or Program up or 3. Use the Program up/down buttons Program down on the remote control or TV to scroll throuh the menu headings. to switch the TV on from Stand-by? 4. Use the Volume +/- buttons to make any changes you want when the menu The Stand-by indicator will dim a
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Use the Program down button to Tuning with channel numbers Enter the SETUP menu by pressing select AUTOPROGRAM and the blue button. press the OK button. A list of countries will appear. Select UK Press the OK button to enter the using Program and Volume CHANNEL row. buttons. Use the OK button to select “S” for cable channels and When you are sure the aerial is “C” for terrestrial broadcast. connected properly press the OK button. Autoprogam will start. Use Volume up button to select the chan
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Program Table Once you have tuned in all the channels you Please Note want, you can change their programme Some TV channels may send their number, if required, and name them. names with teletext transmission. In this case their names will be automatically To enter the PROGRAM TABLE shown on the name line. menu press the Menu button and select PROGRAM TABLE and To move the programmes press the OK button or press You can move the programmes around the directly the Yellow button. programme list to
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Mute To mute the sound press the Mute TV controls button on the remote control. A Programme selection loudspeaker symbol will appear on Press the Program up or Program the screen. down button on the TV or remote control or press a Numeric button Press the Mute button again to to select a programme. restore the sound. The symbol will disappear (See headphones page 14) . To select a programme whose number is greater than 9 using the numeric buttons, press the -/-- PP button first and then pres
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Volume TV set up Sets default volume using the Volume up The TV set up is accessed through a menu and down buttons. system. To save your settings, select STOREand press the OK button. Once you have stored your settings, these are STOREDwill be displayed. Press the set up the TV will default to when you the Menu button to go back to switch it on. the previous menu. To enter the MAIN menu press the Balance Menu button. Sets the sound balance when the TVis in stereo mode using the Once in the MAIN
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Sound mode AVL You can select NORMAL, SPATIAL or TV transmitters have different sound levels. DOLBY VIRTUAL (*) using the AVL (automatic volume limiting) maintains Volume up/down buttons or mix button. the same sound level as you switch from program to program. SPATIAL sound is an ‘expanded stereo’. It To adjust this press Volume up or down gives the impression that the two speakers in button and select ON or OFF AVL. the TV are further apart than they really are. DOLBY VIRTUAL (*) is based on
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Equalizer To make headphone sound adjusments press the mute button the mute symbol EQUALIZER will stay on until the mute button is pressed MUSIC again. SPORTS CINEMA SPEECH To return to the TV speaker sound press USER 0.1 0.5 1.5 5 10 the mute button and the mute symbol will disappear. BACK Note: If you have used the headphones with high volume it is advisable to reduce In this menu are a series of preset equalizer it before pressing mute to avo›d a loud settings for different types of soun
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Smart cont. Timer: Use Program up and down buttons to select Timer in the features This gives you a choice of picture type: menu. Using the Timer fuction, you can SOFT, NATURAL, RICH or USER. switch to a specific programme at a pre- Use the button to change this type. programmed time or you can turn your TV off at the time you want your TV to be USER allows you to set your own picture turned off. type (see picture menu page 14) Press OK to access the Timer menu. You can change the picture ty
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4:3 Sets: Picture format This allows you to select the picture size 4:3, is the screen format of 25”, 28”, 29” corresponding to the screen type of your TV: and 33” TV sets But you can change the picture format to 16:9 to watch the Auto inputs in 16:9 format, i.e. some The formats of the broadcasts (4:3 or 16:9) broadcasts and DVD’s. are chosen automatically. (4:3, 16:9 and Letterbox for 16:9 TV) This feature is active 4:3 if the channel you are watching sends WSS (Wide Screen Signalling) info
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Using Teletext Teletext is an information system that displays TV/text mix text on your TV screen. Using the teletext To view a page of text whilst control buttons you can view pages of watching a TV programme press information that are listed in the teletext theMix button. The text will be index. superimposed over the TV programme. Please Note No on screen display is available in text mode. Press the Mix button again to return The contrast, brightness and colour cannot be to the text page.
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Page hold To reveal information If the page of text you have selected Press the Rev button to reveal contains sub pages, these sub pages concealed information (quiz answers etc.). will automatically be displayed in order with a delay to allow you to read the page. Press the Rev button again to conceal the information again. To stop the move to the next sub page press the Hold button. STOP Clock will appear in the top left hand Press the Sub button, whilst corner. watching a TV program , to dis
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Connecting external equipment Please note: Headphones (optional) You can connect a RGB external equipment The headphones must have an impedance of via Scart 1. It is necessary to you use full between 8 and 32 ohms and have a 3.5 mm Scart cable for this purpose. stereo jack plug. Select the video outputs of external device Plug the headphone jack into the headphone by using its menu to RGB if it’s available. socket of the TV. (See page 14 for adjustments). Via PHONO lead (optional) Make sure the
