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Real Flat Television
29PT7325
User manual
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IMPORTANT Before you begin: Make sure your package includes the following items:TV and mains cord, remote control, Instruction 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 unde
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Table of Contents Peripherals General DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Video recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Useful Tips . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 What’s Hot Amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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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. • Do not place your TV
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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 cleaner pictures. The description below will help you make your choice. Auto If you are undecided of which mode to choose, select Auto and let your TV decide for you automatically! 100 Hz Digital Scan (available only for PAL signal) Working with three lines of picture information, the 3-line digital comb filter in the TV vi
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Installing your television set Positioning the television set Remote control 10 cm 10 cm 10 cm Insert the two R6-type batteries (supplied) making sure that they are the right way Place your TV on a solid, stable surface, round. leaving a space of at least 10 cm around the The batteries supplied with this appliance do appliance. not contain mercury or nickel cadmium. If you have access to a recycling facility, please do Connections not discard your used batteries (if in doubt, consult your dealer
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Remote control keys Standby Personal Zapping Lets you place the TV set on standby. You can surf up to 10 personal To turn on the TV, press CH + or –, channels for each key (p. 12) 2 , AV, A/CH or digit keys. Sleeptimer AV channel selection Selects a period of time after Press several times to select AV1, which the TV will go into standby CVI, AV2, YPbPr or Side. mode automatically. Delete Personal Zapping list Add Personal Zapping list Deletes stored channels from Adds and stores channels into P
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Auto Store “ Use the key to start auto store. This menu is used to store all available All the available TV channels will be stored channels automatically. automatically. & Press the key. This operation takes a few minutes. The display é With the cursor, select the Install menu shows the progress of the search and the and follow by the Auto Store. number of channels found. ‘To quit the menus, press . If no channels are found, consult the possible solutions on p.15. Manual Store ‘ Sound Sys(te
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Sort This feature allows you to rearrange channels from (e.g. 001) and confirm selection with according to your preference. the key. ‘ Use the or key to select the channel number you want to change to & Press the key. The Main menu is displayed on the screen. (e.g. 004) and confirm selection with the é With the cursor, select the Install menu key. The change is done. Channel 4 will move up to followed by the Sort menu. channel 3 and channel 3 will move up to channel “ Use the or key to sel
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Channel edit This feature allows you to skip or edit & Press the key. The Main menu is channels which have bad or weak TV signal or displayed on the screen. channels you do not watch often. é With the cursor, select the Install menu followed by the Edit menu. Once a channel is skipped, you cannot have “ Enter into the menu and select the access to it by the Channel + or – key. You can channel number you wish to skip by the only access the channels by the digit (0-9) keys. digit keys. ‘ Then use
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Picture settings & Press then . The Picture menu Description of the adjustments: will be called up. • 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 T emp.: this changes the colour é Use the or keys to select a rendering: Cold(bluer), Normal(balanced) or
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Timer Function This feature allows you to set the timer to Description of function: switch to a channel at a specified time while Time: enter the current time. you are watching another channel or when the Start Time: enter the time for the TV to TV is on standby mode. switch on or to switch channel. Note: Timer will be disabled once the set is Stop Time: enter the time to switch to switched off. standby. Note: Is Stop Time is not keyed in, Tv will go to & Press , use the key to select standby m
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Format This feature enhances your viewing pleasure Description of function: by providing you with a choice of two picture 4:3 – select this format if you want to display formats:- 4:3 and Expand 4:3. a conventional picture using the full surface of the screen. & 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. 4:3 Expand 4:3 – select this format
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Demo The split screen display shows the image The screen is split to dramatically show the performance before and after enhancements comparative images side by side. to present clearly the effects of the picture enhancement features. without picture with picture enhancements enhancements & Enter Features menu as described in “Features settings” on the previous page. é Use the key to select Demo and ` press the key to select On or Off. Personal Zapping A list or series of favourite TV programs
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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. DVD player & Connect the TV’s green, blue and red Y Pb Pr (AV1 in) jacks to the corresponding COMPONENT VIDEO OUT jack
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Satellite receiver, decoder, games, etc. Connecting peripheral equipment Other equipment & Carry out the connections shown opposite. é 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. & To connect to a hi-fi system, use an audio Amplifier connection cable and con
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Tips Poor reception Good sound but poor colour or no The proximity of mountains or high picture buildings may be responsible for ghost Try to increase the contrast and pictures, echoing or shadows. In this case, brightness setting. try manually adjustingyour picture: see Fine Tuning (p. 7) or modify the orienta- Snowish picture and noise tion of the outside aerial. Does your Check antenna connection at the rear of antenna enable you to receive broadcasts the TV. in this frequency range (UHF or V
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Glossary 4:3 Contrast+ Refers to the ration between the length and enhances the darker portions of the picture the height of the screen. Wide screen to improve its picture quality. televisions have a ration of 16:9 while conventional televisions have a ratio of 4:3. Personal Zapping A Philips trade marked feature which allows 4:3 Expand any combination of favourite teletext pages The images recorded in “letterbox” format or TV channels to be stored in the coloured are expanded to fill the entire
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Specification Side Connections Product type 29PT7325 • S-Video • Video and Audio inputs • Headphone out PICTURE • Picture screen diameter: 29” (720 mm) Rear Connections • Visible screen size: 27” (680 mm) • Picture Tube: Real Flat 4:3 •AV1: 1 FH (CVI), Video and Audio inputs •AV2: S-Video, Video and Audio inputs • 100 Hz •AV3: 2 FH (HD-CVI) •Progressive Scan • Monitor Out (Auto Switching with manual override) • Scan Velocity Modulation • 3D Digital Combfilter Reception •Tuning system: PLL • 3:2
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