Terratec CINERGYDIGITAL2 User Manual
Cinergy Digital 2 Software
English manual
Version: 5/23/05
Contents
Cinergy Digital 2 software........................................................................................................ 3
Installation. ......................................................................................................................... 3
Launching the software for the first time .............................................................................. 4
Design and controls.............................................................................................................7
On-screen display (OSD) ........................................................................................................15
Main menu. ........................................................................................................................15
EPG—the electronic program guide .....................................................................................16
Info.....................................................................................................................................18
Timeshifting ...........................................................................................................................19
Recording, playing, exporting.................................................................................................21
Recording ...........................................................................................................................21
Immediate recording .......................................................................................................21
Timer-controlled recording—EPG-programmed................................................................ 22
Timer-controlled recording—manually programmed........................................................ 24
Playing, exporting, deleting ............................................................................................... 28
Teletext................................................................................................................................. 29
Configuration ........................................................................................................................ 32
Configuration: Options....................................................................................................... 32
Configuration: Channel scan.............................................................................................. 34
Configuration: TV favorites, radio favorites......................................................................... 34
Configuration: Channel info ............................................................................................... 34
Configuration: About.......................................................................................................... 34
Context menu........................................................................................................................ 35
Setting up the antenna..........................................................................................................36
Keyboard shortcuts ............................................................................................................... 37
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Cinergy Digital 2 software
…is your control center for digital television. The full range of functions and features—channel
selection, timeshifting, recording and teletext—of your new TV hardware are united in the
Cinergy Digital 2 software. It must be installed before you can get started, however.
Installation.
To install the Cinergy Digital 2 software, select the appropriate item on the autostart menu of
the included CD-ROM. If the autostart menu does not open automatically when you insert the
software& installation CD, go to the CD-ROM drive and launch the autorun.exe file.
Note: we are continuously improving the Cinergy Digital 2 software, so please check our
website from time to time for new versions featuring improved or extended functionality.
The current version of the Cinergy Digital 2 software is available at
http://www.terratec.com/. Once you have downloaded the file, double-click it to start
the installation.
The language selected for the installation will also be used in the Cinergy Digital 2 application.
It can be changed at any time, however. The Cinergy Digital 2 icon will be present on your
desktop if you accepted the defaults during the installation.
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Launching the software for the first time
The automatic channel scan will open automatically the first time you start the Cinergy Digital 2 application.
• Channel scan
Click “Start”. The automatic channel scan will enter its results in the “Found channels”
window. Don't worry about the advanced options of the automatic channel scan at this
point.
They will be explained later in the “Configuration: Channel scan
” chapter.
The channel scan.
• Adding the found stations to the Favorites list.
Click the “TV favorites” tab to transfer the found channels to your Favorites list. Use the arrows between the left- and right-hand windows to move individual (>) or all channels (>>) to
the Favorites list in the right-hand window. You will only be able to select and see channels that are in your Favorites list when using the program. Click “Save” to save changes
to your Favorites list. Next, switch to the “Radio favorites” tab and repeat the process.
Note: DVB-T radio programming is not available in all countries.
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• Channel order/program number.
The channels were entered in the Favorites list in the order in which they were found. As
this probably does not correspond to your usual sorting, you can sort your Favorites with
the arrow buttons on the right-hand edge of the list.
• Record folder.
Switch to the “Options” tab and select a folder for storing timeshift and recording files.
Click “OK” to close the configuration menu.
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That completes the basic configuration of the software. The configuration dialog contains a
number of other options that will be covered in the “Configuration” chapter.
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Design and controls
The software essentially consists of the picture window and the user interface.
Display window
User interface
The user interface contains:
• a context-sensitive display for additional information
• the mode button (TV, radio, video)
• navigation buttons (channel selection, menu navigation)
• the teletext button (open/close teletext, transparent teletext)
• display functions (open/close display window, full screen)
• recording navigation functions (playback, record, pause, etc.)
• audio functions (audio channel/format, volume, mute)
• OSD functions (on-screen display, EPG, program information, timer)
• configuration (basic settings and options)
Cinergy Digital 2 software functions can normally be accessed in a number of ways. The following options are always available:
• the buttons of the user interface
• infrared remote control
• on-screen display (OSD)
• context menu—right mouse button on the picture window
• hotkeys or key combinations
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User interface: display
The display of the user interface is context-sensitive and shows e.g.
• general information
• channel and program information
• audio information
Mode Channel number/name
Program name
Timeshift active
Timer
Start of program
programmed
End of program
Volume
Current time
Audio channel/audio format
User interface: mode
The Cinergy Digital 2 software has three different modes.
TV mode. Use TV mode to watch programs and record them. TV mode is only available if you
have at least one TV channel stored in your TV favorites list.
Radio mode. Use Radio mode to listen to programs and record them. Radio mode is only
available if you have at least one radio station stored in your radio favorites list.
Note: DVB-T radio programming is not available in all countries.
Recording mode. Use this mode to play back recordings of TV or radio programs stored in your
Record folder. The display will be empty if there are no recordings in the folder. Please note
that Cinergy Digital 2 software is no substitute for a general-purpose media player. The Cinergy
Digital 2 will only play back recordings made with this application.
Button Remote Context menu Keyboard
TAB
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User interface: navigation functions
Navigation: TV and radio mode. Use the navigation buttons to select your station. Press “OK”
to display a list of TV and radio favorites in the picture window. You can also select stations
directly without navigating through the intermediate stations.
Navigation: OSD. Use the arrow buttons to navigate through the various OSD menus (main
OSD menu, EPG, timer, recording, etc). The menus are shown on the picture window. Press
“OK” to select a menu item.
Button Remote control Context menu Keyboard
Channel +
Channel -
up arrow
down arrow
left arrow
right arrow
RETURN
Z
The mouse scroll wheel can also be used to navigate list fields such as the EPG and EPG
details.
User interface: teletext
Teletext—TV mode only. Press the Teletext button once to display the teletext page of the
current channel in the picture window. Pressing the button again will display the page transparently over the current TV program. Pressing it once more ends the teletext display and
returns you to the normal TV display. For more information, please see “Teletext”
Button Remote control Context menu Keyboard
Teletext
T
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User interface: display functions
TV display—all modes. The TV button closes the picture window. Click the button again to
reopen the picture window.
Note: the digital picture does not need to be decoded if the picture window is closed. This
results in a much lower processor load. Don't worry, however—both manual and programmed
recordings will continue or be started as programmed with the window closed.
Full screen—all modes. Use the Full Screen button to change to full-screen mode and hide the
user interface. Press the button again to restore the window.
Format switching—all modes. Use the format switching button to force video format changes.
Many stations broadcast their programs with black bars above and below the actual picture.
Naturally, these bars are naturally extremely annoying on wide-screen displays, as a large part
of the screen area simply remains black. Some black bars are an integral part of the program.
In other words, the program is broadcast in conventional 4:3 format, while the relevant part of
the picture is in wide-screen format. The Cinergy Digital 2 software automatically recognizes
genuine 16:9 broadcasts and adjusts the picture accordingly. While wide-screen movies in 4:3
broadcasts cannot be identified automatically, it is possible to force the picture to the correct
format.
The following illustrations show how format switching affects a 4:3 broadcast containing widescreen content when viewed on a wide-screen display:
4:3
This is how a 4:3 broadcast with
wide-screen content appears on
a wide-screen display.
Zoom
And this is how it appears when
the Zoom option is selected. The
black bars are cut off and the
program content is displayed
over the entire screen area.
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Wide The Wide option stretches the
picture to the full screen width
without cropping it.
Screenshots—all modes. The Screenshot button captures a still image of the current picture.
The images will be stored in the selected Record folder.
Button Remote control Context menu Keyboard
Open/close TV
window
Full screen
Ctrl + X
F
Format switching
Original/Zoom/Wide
Screenshot
<
P
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User interface: recording navigation functions
All modes. Use the recording navigation buttons to control the timeshifting, recording and
playback functions of the Cinergy Digital 2 Software. Timeshifting, recording and playback are
covered in separate chapters, so this is only an overview of the individual buttons.
Button Remote control Context menu Keyboard
Timeshift
Start recording
L
SHIFT + L
SPACE BAR
PAUSE
X
SHIFT + N
N
R
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