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TOPFIELD

TF5000PVRt Masterpiece

User Guide

Digital Terrestrial Receiver

Personal Video Recorder

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Digital Broadcasting Australia

Dear customer, Digital BroadcastingAustralia (DBA) congratulates you on your decision to purchase a digital receiver set-top box.

Digital Broadcasting Australia is made up of the free-to-air television stations, consumer electronic suppliers, manufacturers and retailers. Together, we want to ensure the smoothest possible transition to digital for viewers and consumers. You can ﬁnd out more about DBA by visiting our web site, http: //www.dba.org.au.

As you are one of the ﬁrst to experience the unique beneﬁts of digital television in Australia, we are inviting you to join the DBA Early Adopter Club.

Membership of the DBA Early Adopter Club is completely free. Some of the beneﬁts of membership include:

• Receiving regular updates about digital television in Aus-

tralia

• On-line access to member-only international news on

digital television developments

You can also provide vital feedback on the features of digital television you like and don’t like in occasional on-line surveys— so you can help shape digital television in the future.

To register as a member of the DBA Early Adopter Club, please enter your contact details on the registration web page at http: //www.dba.org.au/register.asp. You will then receive a conﬁrmation of your membership and a sign-on password.

We look forwarding to welcoming you to the DBA Early Adopter Club.

Tim O’Keefe Digital Broadcasting Australia

Contents v

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1.2 Controlling the digital receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.2.1 The front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.2.2 The remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2 Installation 7

2.1 Packing contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.2 Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.3 Rear panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.4 Connecting the digital receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.5 Inserting batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3 Preference Settings 14

3.1 Language settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.2 Video and audio settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.2.1 Televsion standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.2.2 Color model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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3.2.3 Video cassette recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.2.4 Television aspect ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.2.5 Sound mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.2.6 RF output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.3 Local time setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.4 Parental control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3.5 Adjusting on-screen display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.6 Enabling the time shift function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

4 Service Search 25

4.1 Searching broadcasting services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

4.2 Resetting to factory settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

5 Daily Usage 27

5.1 Browsing services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

5.2 Viewing program information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

5.3 Viewing an electronic program guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

5.4 Selecting an audio track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

5.5 Selecting a subtitle track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

5.6 Viewing a teletext . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

5.7 Selecting a multifeed service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

5.8 Watching by time shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.9 Watching by picture in picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

6 Listing Services 35

7 Recording and Playing Back 38

7.1 Recording a program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

7.1.1 Immediate recording by the remote control . . . . . . 39

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7.1.2 Making a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

7.1.3 Recording by electronic program guide . . . . . . . . . 42

7.1.4 Recording when using time shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

7.2 File list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

7.3 Playing back a recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

7.3.1 To play back in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

7.3.2 To play back in fast motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

7.3.3 To play back recordings in sequence . . . . . . . . . . . 48

7.3.4 To make a bookmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

7.3.5 To play back a recording repeatedly . . . . . . . . . . . 49

7.4 Editing a recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

7.4.1 To erase a block from a recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

7.4.2 To store a block from a recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

7.5 Playing a MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

7.6 Formatting hard disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

8 Topﬁeld Application Program 53

9 Firmware Update and Data Transfer 55

9.1 Updating the ﬁrmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

9.2 Transferring the receiver data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

9.3 Transferring recording ﬁles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Index 60

1.1 Introduction

The TF 5000 PVRt Masterpiece digital receiver is fully compliant with the international Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) standard, and can receive digital broadcastings. To operate it, you need an antenna, which must be installed appropriately.

Unlike analog broadcastings, digital broadcastings are not all assigned to their own frequencies; 1instead, several television and radio broadcastings are transmitted through a single transponder on a single wideband carrier.

Chapter 1

Introduction

NOTE A transponder is in fact a wireless device, which re-

ceives and transmits radio signals at a prescribed frequency range. You may regard a transponder as a channel. One channel has one broadcasting in analog broadcast; on the other hand, one transponder has several broadcastings in digital broadcast. So the word service is used instead of channel to indicate a broadcasting in this document.

To help you with the choice and setting for broadcasting ser-

2 Introduction

vices, a selection of television and radio services have already been programmed for you. So all broadcasting services that have gone on air are available to you. You can ﬁnd the latest transponder information from various broadcasters on teletext.

The TF 5000 PVRt Masterpiece digital receiver has features as follows:

• The digtial receiver is able to memorize up to 2000 tele-

vision and radio services.

• Electronic Program Guide (EPG) provides an overview

of program schedules for next few hours.

• You can edit the service list and make your own favorite

service list.

• You can view the information of a current television or

radio program.

• You can update the ﬁrmware of the digital receiver to

the latest, which will be provided by Topﬁeld.

• The digital receiver features a digital video recorder with

two tuners, with which you can record your choice of broadcasting services independently of ones you are currently watching.

• The large storage capacity of the built-in hard disk al-

lows you to record up to 40 hours of material—in case of 80 gigabytes—in excellent picture and sound quality.

• Time shift function is a special technical feature. You

can pause the program you are watching and resume it again at a later time. You can quickly ﬁnd whatever part of the current program by reverse or forward search.

• During a recording in progress, you can select a different

program from the archive and watch it.

1.2 Controlling the digital receiver

You can control the digital receiver with the remote control and the front panel buttons.

NOTE When the digital receiver is off but plugged to a wall

outlet, we say that it is in standby mode; on the other hand, when it is on, it is in operation mode. You should keep the digital receiver plugged to a wall outlet so as it can run timer events.

1.2.1 The front panel

STANDBY button toggles the digital receiver between oper-

ation mode and standby mode.

CHANNELa,cbuttons switch to another service, and move

the highlight bar vertically in a menu.

1.2 Controlling the digital receiver 3

VOLUMEb,dbuttons change the volume, and select an

option in a menu.

Status display displays a current time in standby mode, and

displays a current status of the digital receiver in operation mode.

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1.2.2 The remote control

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GUIDE button displays an electronic program guide.

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MENU button displays the menu, or escapes to a higher

level menu out of a submenu.

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button toggles the digital receiver between operation mode and standby mode.

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button mutes the television or

audio appliance.

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UHF button displays the RF set-

ting menu. For more descriptions, refer to § 3.2.6.

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button toggles operation between the digital receiver and your video recorder. For more descriptions, refer to § 3.2.3.

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button sets a sleep timer. The digital receiver is turned off to standby mode when a speciﬁed duration is elapsed.

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Numeral buttons are used to specify a service to watch or a parameter such as timer.

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button makes a return to the

previous service.

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button displays the informa-

tion about the program on the air.

button toggles between TV mode and radio mode.

button is used to select an audio track, a sound mode

1.2 Controlling the digital receiver 5

or a multifeed if available.

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V+ ,

V− buttons change the volume, and select an op-

tion in a menu.

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P+ ,

P− buttons switch to another service, and move

the highlight bar vertically in a menu.

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OK button displays the service list, and selects an entry

in a menu or list.

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FAV button displays the favorite service list.

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button is used to select a subtitle track if available.

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EXIT button escapes from any menu.

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button displays teletext if available.

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button starts backward playback or backward scan.

button starts a playback.

button starts forward scan.

button starts slow playback.

button stops a playback.

button starts a recording.

button captures a picture from a live show. This

button also pauses a playback.

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button moves the position of subpicture counter-

colckwise.

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button moves the position of subpicture clockwise.

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SAT button interchanges a main-picture with a subpic-

ture.

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button displays, resizes and hides a subpicture.

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button makes a a bookmark during a playback or a

time shift.

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button plays back from a next bookmark position.

button is used to edit a recording ﬁle.

button displays recording ﬁle list, MP3 ﬁle list or

application ﬁle list. For more descriptions, refer to § 7.4.

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button displays a service list for subpicture, or spec-

iﬁes a block for a repeated playback.

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N/P button is unavailable for this model.

If you do not have wide-screen television but normal screen television, pressing the

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0 button changes, depending on broad-

casting conditions, the display format as follows.

4:3 Center Extract → 4:3 Letter Box → 16:9 Full screen

, , , and buttons have additional different functions per menu besides their own function. Their functions will be guided in the help window on a menu screen.

If the remote control does not work, please check the remote control mode. There are 4 modes with this remote control. You can alter the mode by pressing two buttons simultaneously as follows:

• Mode 1: +

• Mode 2: +

• Mode 3: +

• Mode 4: +

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The mode 1 will work at default.

2.1 Packing contents

Before going any further, check that you have received the following items with your digital receiver.

• Remote control unit

• Two batteries for the remote control (AAA 1.5 V)

• One loop cable, to link the ﬁrst tuner with the second

tuner

• One SCART-to-component cable, to link the digital re-

ceiver to your television set

• One RCA cable, to link the digital receiver to your tele-

vision set

• A copy of this user guide

Chapter 2

Installation

2.2 Safety precautions

Please read and keep the following safety precautions carefully for your safety.

• The power must be 90 to 250 volt. Check it before con-

8 Installation

necting the digital receiver to the wall outlet. For the power cunsumption of the digital receiver, refer to Table 2.1.

• The wall outlet shall be installed near the equipment and

shall be easily accessible.

• The digital receiver is designed to receive, record and

play back video and audio signals. Any other use is expressly prohibited.

• When setting up the digital receiver, make sure it is in a

horizontal position.

• Do not expose the digital receiver to any moisture. The

digital receiver is designed for use in dry rooms. If you do use it outdoors, ensure that it is protected from moisture, such as rain or splashing water. Do not place any vessels such as vases on the digital receiver. These may be knocked over and spill ﬂuid on the electrical components, thus bring about a risk.

• Use only dry cloth when cleaning the digital receiver.

• Do not place the digital receiver close to heating units or

in direct sunlight, as this will impair cooling. Place the digital receiver on a hard, level surface. Do not lay any objects such as magazines on the digital receiver. When placed in a cabinet, make sure there is a minimum space of 10 cm around it. For the physical speciﬁcation of the digital receiver, refer to Table 2.2.

• Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched

particularly at plugs, receptacles, and the point where they exit from the digital receiver.

• Only use accessories speciﬁed by the manufacturer.

• Thunderstroms are a danger to all of electrical devices.

Even if the digital receiver is switched off, it can be damaged by a lightning strike to the power line or the an-

2.2 Safety precautions 9

tenna cable. Always disconnect the power plug and the antenna cable.

• Never open the digital receiver casing under any cir-

cumstances. Warranty claims are excluded for the damage resulting from improper handling.

• Refer all servicing to qualiﬁed service personnel. Servic-

ing is required when the digital receiver has been damaged in any way, such as power-supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilt or objects have fallen into the digital receiver, the digital receiver has been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate normally, or has been dropped.

Table 2.1: Power speciﬁcation

Input voltage 90 to 250V AC, 50/60 Hz

Power consumption Running: Max. 28 W

Standby: 10 W

Table 2.2: Physical speciﬁcation

Size 430 × 60 × 265 mm

Weight 4.3 kg

Operating temperature 0 to 45 °C

Storage humidity 5 to 95% RH

10 Installation

4 13

9 10

ANT 1

RF LOOP 1 OUT RF LOOP 2 OUT AUDIO

S-VIDEO

VCR

USB

RF IN

S/PDIF RS-232

VIDEO

RF OUT

ANT 2

2.3 Rear panel connections

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ANT 1 IN Broadcasting input socket for the 1st

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RF LOOP 1 OUT Broadcasting output socket through ANT

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ANT 2 IN Broadcasting input socket for the 2nd

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RF LOOP 2 OUT Broadcasting output socket through sec-

tuner.

1 IN for another digital receiver.

tuner.

ondtunerinfor another digital receiver.

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VIDEO Composite video output socket for the

television or the video receiver.

AUDIO L/R Stereo audio output socekt for the tele-

vision or the audio system.

S-VIDEO Super video output socket for the tele-

vision.

TV Audio and video output socket for the

television.

VCR Audio and video input / output socket

for the video recorder.

RF IN Analog television input socket.

2.4 Connecting the digital receiver 11

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RF OUT Analog television output socket.

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S/PDIF Dolby Digital output socket for the au-

dio system.

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USB USB port for ﬁrmware update and data

transfer.

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RS-232 Serial port for ﬁrmware update and data

transfer.

Table 2.3: Connectors speciﬁcation

TV SCART CVBS / S-Video / RGB /YUV video output

Left & right audio output

VCR SCART CVBS video output

Left & right audio output

CVBS / S-Video / RGB / YUV video input for bypass

Left & right audio input for bypass

S-Video S-Video output

RCA AV Composite video output

Left & right audio output

S/PDIF Dolby Digital audio output

RS-232 9 pin D-sub type

Transfer rate: 115.2 kbps at maximum

USB 2.0 Device

2.4 Connecting the digital receiver

There are several ways to install the digital receiver as described below. Install the digital receiver suitably to your television and other appliances. If you have any problem with your installation or need a help, contact your dealer or service provider.

You should conﬁgure audio and video settings after installation. For detailed descriptions about audio and video settings, refer to § 3.2.

12 Installation

Connecting to the terrestrial antenna

Connect the antenna cable to the ANT1 IN socket on the digital receiver, and then connect the RF LOOP 1 OUT socket and the ANT 2 IN socket with a loop-through cable.

If you have another digital receiver, plug another cable into

the RF LOOP 2 OUT socket on the digital receiver and the

corresponding socket on the other digital receiver.

Connecting to the television by SCART connector

Plug a SCART cable into the TV socket on the digital receiver

and the corresponding SCART socket on your television.

Connecting to the television by RCA connector

Plug a RCA cable into the VIDEO (yellow), AUDIO L (white) and AUDIO R (red) sockets on the digital receiver and the cor-

responding input sockets on your television or audio appliance.

Connecting to the television by S-Video connector

Plug a standard S-Video cable into the S-VIDEO socket on the

digital receiver and the corresponding input socket on your television. You must connect audio sockets on the digital receiver with ones on your television by a RCA cable because the S-video socket outputs only video signals.

Connecting to the video recorder by SCART connector

Plug one end of the SCART cable into the VCR socket on the

digital receiver. Then, plug the other end of the SCART cable into the input SCART socket on your video recorder if you wish to record a broadcasting program with your video recorder; otherwise if you wish to watch the video that the video recorder plays back just through the digital receiver, plug the other end into the output SCART socket.

2.5 Inserting batteries in the remote control 13

Connecting to the television by RF connector

Connect the RF LOOP 2 OUT socket and the RF IN socket

on the digital receiver with a RF cable, and then plug a RF

cable into the RF OUT socket on the digital receiver and the

corresponding input socket on your television.

2.5 Inserting batteries in the remote control

To insert the batteries, open the battery compartment by removing the lid, and then insert the batteries observing the polarity, which is marked on the base of the battery compartment. Close the battery compartment after that.

If the digital receiver no longer reacts properly to remote control commands, the batteries may be ﬂat. Be sure to remove used batteries. The manufacturer accepts no liability for damage resulting from leaking batteries.

NOTE Batteries, including those which contain no heavy met-

als, may not be disposed of with household waste. Please dispose of used batteries in an environmentally sound manner. Find out about the legal regulations which apply in your area.

14 Preference Settings

3.1 Language settings

You can designate languages for menu, audio track and subtitle track.

Chapter 3

Preference Settings

To designate the language for menu, audio track or subtitle

track, select the System Setting

> Language Setting menu.

Menu language

The digital receiver supports a lot of menu languages: Arabic, Dutch, English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Turkish

and so forth. Set the Menu Language option to your desired

Subtitle language

Audio language

3.2 Video and audio settings 15

language. Once you select a language, the menu will be displayed in the selected language immediately.

Set the 1st Subtitle Language and 2nd Subtitle Language op-

tions to your desired language. If a program does not have the

subtitle track of the language set to the 1st Subtitle Language, that set to the 2nd Subtitle Language option will be output. If

it does not have the second’s subtitle track either, no subtitle will be output.

Apart from this setting, you can select a subtitle track with button when you watch a program. For detailed descriptions about how to select a subtitle track, refer to § 5.5.

Set the 1st Audio Language and 2nd Audio Language options

to your desired language. If the program does not have the

subtitle track of the language set to the 1st Audio Language option, that set to the 2nd Audio Language option will be out-

put. If it does not have the second’s audio track either, an ordinary audio track will be output.

Apart from this setting, you can select an audio track with button when you watch a program. For detailed descriptions about how to select an audio track, refer to § 5.4.

3.2 Video and audio settings

You have to conﬁgure the video and audio settings appropriately to your television and appliances.

16 Preference Settings

3.2.1 Televsion standard

The digital receiver supports two types of television standard. One is PAL (Phase Alternating Line) standard, and the other is NTSC (National Television Standards Commitee) standard. PAL was adopted in European countries while NTSC is adopted in USA, Canada, Mexico and so forth.

If you have a PAL televsion, you have to set the TV Type op- tion to PAL. In this case, if a service you wish to watch is NTSC

standard, the digital receiver converts it into PAL standard for your PAL television. However, its quality would somewhat fall. The opposite case brings about the same result.

The best thing is to watch PAL services with a PAL television and to watch NTSC services with a NTSC television. However, the auto television is able to process both of them. So if

you have an auto television, set the TV Type option to Multi.

With this option, the digital receiver will output them without standard conversion. This setting is most recommended especially if you are not sure what stadard television you have.

To conﬁgure the video and au-

dio settings, select the System

Setting > A/V Output Setting

menu.

3.2.2 Color model

The type of the socket that reads TV on the back panel of

the digital receiver is SCART. This is also known as Euro-

3.2 Video and audio settings 17

connector. Through this socket, the digital receiver is able to output video signals of various color models: CVBS (Composite Video Baseband Signal), S-Video (Super-Video), YUV and RGB. Audio signals are also output together through this socket.

If you have connected the digital receiver and your televsion

by this connector, you should set the Video Output option to

your desired color model. If you have connected them by RCA

connector at which VIDEO reads on the back panel of the dig-

ital receiver, you do not have to set this option because the digital receiver outputs CVBS video through RCA connector independent of SCART connector.

However, If you have connected them by S-VIDEO connector, you have to this option to S-Video because the output through

S-Video connector comes from the SCART interface.

It is known in general that YUV color model provides the best video quality with little difference from RGB color model while CVBS color model does the worst. However, not all televisions with a SCART socket support YUV color model. Make sure your television supports YUV color model before setting

the Video Output option to YUV. But there would rarely be

televisions that have a SCART socket but do not support RGB

color model. So RGB would be the most desirable value for

this option.

3.2.3 Video cassette recorder

The SCART socket that reads VCR on the back panel of the

digital receiver is for a video recorder. You would have connected the digital receiver to your video recorder or such an appliance by this connector.

If you have connected the VCR socket to the input SCART socket of your video recorder, you have to set the VCR Scart Type option to Standard. If you have connected it to the out-

put SCART socket, the digital receiver will operate differently

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depending on the setting of the VCR Scart Type option. If the option is set to Standard, the digital receiver will pass the

video from the video recorder to your television when the video recorder starts a playback. But if the option is set to

External A/V, the digital receiver will not pass the video even

though the video recorder starts a playback. To pass it, you have to press button.

NOTE In this case, it is impossible that the digital receiver

records the video which the video recorder plays back because the digital receiver is just a bypass for the video recorder.

3.2.4 Television aspect ratio

If you have a wide-screen television, set the TV Aspect Ratio option to 16:9.

You can enjoy well both wide-screen programs and normalscreen programs with your wide-screen television as the above ﬁgures show. The left ﬁgure shows a wide picture displayed in the wide screen, and the right ﬁgure shows a normal picture displayed in the wide screen.

If you have a normal-screen television, set the TV Aspect Ratio option to 4:3.

You cannot enjoy well wide-screen programs with your normalscreen television as the above ﬁgures show. The left ﬁgure shows a normal picture displayed in the normal screen. To watch wide-screen programs in the shape like the center ﬁg-

ure, set the 16:9 Display Format option to Letter Box; then,

wide-screen pictures will be reduced to ﬁt to the width of the normal screen. Otherwise to watch them in the shape like the

right ﬁgure, set the option to Center extract; then, wide-screen

pictures will be cut out on the left and right sides equally to ﬁt to the width of the normal screen.

3.2.5 Sound mode

Basically, there are two audio sources as you can ﬁnd two audio sockets on the back panel of the digital receiver. You can enjoy only one source or both of them in either stereo or mono.

Set the Sound Mode option as you desire.

Apart from this setting, you can change the sound mode with

tions about how to change the sound mode, refer to § 5.4.

3.2 Video and audio settings 19

button when you watch a program. For detailed descrip-

3.2.6 RF output

If you have connected your television to the RF OUT socket,

you should conﬁgure the RF output. The digital receiver can make an analog television from a digital television and output

it through the RF OUT socket. Set the RF Output option to the television standard that your

country supports refering to Table 3.1.

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Table 3.1: Television standards by country

Signal type Country

PAL G Australia, Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Ger-

PAL I Hong Kong, Macau, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, United Kingdom PAL K Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland NTSC M Bahamas, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Fiji, Guam, Jamaica, Mexico,

many, Greece, Iceland, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kuwait, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Yugoslavia

Panama, Peru, United States, Venezuela

Set the RF Channel option to a channel number as you de-

sire. You have to tune your television to the channel set to this option to watch television.

If you have connected your analog television antenna to the

RF IN, you can watch analog broadcasts via the digital re-

ceiver.

3.3 Local time setting

You should set your local time with the digital receiver for timer events.

To set the local time, select the

System Setting > Time Setting

menu.

You can set the local time either yourself manually or using Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) automatically; however, it is

3.3 Local time setting 21

recommended to use the Greenwich mean time.

Table 3.2: Time offset table

Time offset City

GMT − 12:00 Eniwetok, Kwajalein GMT − 11:00 Midway Island, Samoa GMT − 10:00 Hawaii GMT − 09:00 Alaska GMT − 08:00 Paciﬁc Time US, Canada GMT − 07:00 Mountain Time US, Canada GMT − 06:00 Central Time US, Canada, Mexico City GMT − 05:00 Eastern Time US, Canada, Bogota, Lima GMT − 04:00 Atlantic Time Canada, La Paz GMT − 03:30 Newfoundland GMT − 03:00 Brazil, Georgetown, Buenos Aries GMT − 02:00 Mid-Atlantic GMT − 01:00 Azores, Cape Verde Islands GMT London, Libson, Casablanca GMT + 1:00 Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid GMT + 2:00 South Africa, Kaliningrad GMT + 3:00 Baghdad, Riyadh, Moscow, St. Petersburg GMT + 3:30 Tehran GMT + 4:00 Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Baku, Tbilisi GMT + 4:30 Kabul GMT + 5:00 Ekaterinburg, Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent GMT + 5:30 Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, New Delhi GMT + 6:00 Almaty, Dhaka, Colombo GMT + 7:00 Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta GMT + 8:00 Beijing, Perth, Singapore, Hong Kong GMT + 9:00 Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka, Sapporo, Yakutsk GMT + 9:30 Adelaide, Darwin GMT + 10:00 Eastern Australia, Guam, Vladivostok GMT + 11:00 Magadan, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia GMT + 12:00 Fiji, Auckland, Wellington, Kamchatka

To set the local time using GMT, perform the following steps:

1. Set the Mode option to Auto.

2. Set the Time Offset parameter to the time difference cor-

responding to your time zone refering to Table 3.2.

With the above settings, the digital receiver will scan all transponders spceiﬁed one by one until to get the Greenwich mean

22 Preference Settings

time. Make sure that your local time is displayed right on the

Local Time parameter. To set the local time yourself, set the Mode option to Manual

and enter your local time to the Local Time parameter with

the numeral buttons.

The time format is day/month/year 24-hour:minute.

3.4 Parental control

In general a television program is labeled a classiﬁcation according to the level of violence, nudity and language of its content. When you are watching a program, you can check its program classiﬁcation on the information box. Refer the information box to § 5.2.

You can prevent your children from watching certain programs by specifying a basis classiﬁcation.

To specify a basis classiﬁca-

tion, select the System Set- ting > Parental Control menu.

At this time, you have to enter Personal Identiﬁcation Number (PIN). The default personal identiﬁcation number is ‘0000’.

Set the Censorship option to your desired classiﬁcation among

the followings:

No block restricting no program. Total block restricting every program. G restricting no program. G stands for General, content

of which is very mild.

3.4 Parental control 23

PG restricting PG or above rated programs. PG stands for

Parental Guidance, content of which is mild.

M restricting M or above rated programs. M stands for

Mature, content of which is moderate in impact.

MA restricting MA or above rated programs. MA stands

for Mature Accompanied, content of which is strong.

R restricting R rated programs. R stands for Restricted

to adults aged 18 years or over, content of which is very

strong.

AV restricting AV rated programs. AV stands for Adult

Video, content of which is very hardcore.

NOTE If a certain program does not have any classiﬁcation

information, your restriction setting will not take effect on it.

If anyone try to watch a program that is out of the basis classiﬁcation, the person has to enter the personal identiﬁcation

number. To change the number, select the Change PIN Code

menu; then an input box appears. You have to enter your desired number twice for conﬁrmation.

You can also restrict uses of some menus. Selecting the Ac- cess Control menu displays a list of menus that you can lock. If the Time Setting item is set to Locked, you have to enter

the personal identiﬁcation number to use when you have se-

lected the Time Setting menu. If you enter a wrong number,

you cannot use the menu. Similarly, you have to enter the personal identiﬁcation number when you have switched on the

digital receiver if the IRD Lock item is set to Locked. IRD (In-

tegrated Receiver Decoder) is another name of digital receiver.

To release a shut item, set it to Unlocked.

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3.5 Adjusting on-screen display

You can adjust the transparency level of on-screen display. To adjust the transparency level of on-screen display, select the

System Setting menu and set the OSD Transparency option

as you desire. Its available range is 0 to 50 percent.

You can adjust the display time of the information box. For detailed descriptions about the information box, refer to § 5.2.

To adjust its display time, select the System Setting menu and set the Info Box Display Time option as you desire. Its available range is 1 to 30 seconds. If you set this option to No Info Box, the information box will not displayed when you switch

services; however, pressing displays the information box.

If you set this option to Never Hide, the information box will

always be displayed.

You can raise or lower the position of the information box. To

adjust its position, select the System Setting menu and set the Info Box Position option as you desire. Its available range is

−10 to +3 line. The more high the value is set, the more low

the information box will be positioned.

3.6 Enabling the time shift function

You can use time shift function with this digital receiver. To

enable the time shift function, select the System Setting menu and set the Time Shifting option to Enable. For detailed de-

scriptions about the time shift function, refer to § 5.8.

You have to perform service search after installing the digital receiver.

4.1 Searching broadcasting services

Chapter 4

Service Search

To perform service search, se-

lect the Installation > Service Search menu.

If you have an active antenna, you should set the Antenna Supply 5V option to on to supply power to the ampliﬁer of

the antenna. The digital receiver will supply the antenna with 100 milliampere at maximum.

26 Service Search

You should set the Search Modeoption to Auto at the ﬁrst ser-

vice search after installing the digital receiver. The digital receiver will search all available services with automatic search mode. Transponder numbers range from 6 to 12 at VHF and 28 to 69 at UHF.

To search a certain transponder, set the Search Mode option to Manual, and select your desired transponder at the Channel

parameter.

To search one service of a transponder, set the Search Mode option to Advanced, and specify the PIDs of your desired service at the PID menu with the numeral buttons. PID (Packet

Identiﬁer) is a set of numbers that identiﬁes transport stream packets.

To start service search, select the Service Search command.

Then appears a list box, in which found services will be listed. Press the has been completed. To stop service search on the way or exit without saving, press the

¤£¡

OK button to save found services when service search

4.2 Resetting to factory settings

¤£¡

EXIT button.

The digital receiver maintains the following data:

• Service list

• Favorite list

• Timer events

• Preference settings

You can reset all data of the digital receiver. To reset all the

data, select the Installation > Factory Setting menu. Then a conﬁrmation box appears. With the Yes reply, service entries,

favorite entries and timer events will be all deleted, and preference parameters will be reset to the manufacturer’s factory settings.

5.1 Browsing services

To switch over to another service, press the ton. Pressing button recalls the service you have watched just before. You can switch to your desried servce by entering its service number with the numeral buttons. You can also select a service to watch in the browsable service list. To see the browsable service list, press the

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¤£¡

P+ or

P− but-

¤£¡

OK button.

The service list enumerates the following items:

• Service number

• Service name

• Transmitting transponder

A dollar mark ($) may be marked on some entries, which

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means pay service. You cannot watch pay services with this receiver.

To select your desired service, put the highlight bar on its entry with the

¤£¡

P+ or

¤£¡

P− button and press the

your selected service will be shown. Pressing the

¤£¡

OK button. Then

¤£¡

V− or

V+

button skips over 10 entries up or down. Selecting a service number with the numeral buttons puts the highlight bar on its entry.

Pressing the button displays an option box, in which you can do the following things:

• To browse service entries grouped by service provder,

set the Show Provider option to on. You may regard a

service provider as a transponder.

• To rename a current service entry, select the Rename

command, then a keyboard appears with which you can enter a name.

• To prevent other family from watching a current service

entry, set the Lock option to Locked. You have to enter

PIN code when to watch or unlock a locked service.

• To add a current service entry in a favorite group, select

the Add to Fav command; then a favorite group list will

be displayed. Put the highlight bar of the group list on a desired group and press the

Watching a favorite service

You can select a service to watch in the favorite list as well as in the service list. To display your favorite list, press the button; then a favorite group list will be displayed. Whenever moving the highlight bar of the group list up or down, favorite services belonging to a highlighted group are listed.

¤£¡

OK button.

¤£¡

FAV

5.2 Viewing program information 29

If you switch to another service after you have selected a favorite service, it will be also another favorite service of the selected group. The digital receiver will remind you what group you have selected displaying its name on the right top of the sreen whenever you switch to another service. If you wish

you can select all services, select the All services entry in the

favorite list.

For how to edit the favorite list, refer to Chapter 6.

5.2 Viewing program information

Pressing button displays an information box, in which you can verify the followings:

To select a favorite service of a group, press the

¤£¡

V+ button;

then the highlight bar of the favorite list becomes movable. Once you select a desired entry with the

¤£¡

OK button, the selected

service will be shown. Otherwise to select another group, press the

¤£¡

V− button; then the

hightlight bar of the group list becomes movable.

• Service number

• Service name

• Signal level and quality

• Program name

• Program classiﬁcation

• Program commentary

• Broadcasting time

• Current time

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In addition, you might see the following symbols:

• Subtitle symbol if subtitles are provided on a current

program.

• Teletext symbol if teletext is provided on a current

program.

• Lock symbol if a current service is locked.

• Dollar symbol $ if a current service is a pay service.

• Multifeed symbol if a current program is provided

in multifeed service.

Pressing button once more displays detailed information about the current program. If an electronic program guide is provided on a current service, you can see the information about next programs with the the sound volume in this case, press the unceasingly until the sound bar appears and reaches your desired degree. To hide the information box, press the button.

¤£¡

5.3 Viewing an electronic program guide

¤£¡

V− or

V+ button. To adjust

¤£¡

V− or

¤£¡

V+ button

¤£¡

EXIT

The Electronic Program Guide (EPG) is an application used with digital receivers to list current and scheduled programs that are or will be available on each service with a short summary or commentary for each program.

5.4 Selecting an audio track 31

Pressing the plays an electronic program guide, in which you can see the following things:

• Scheduled programs

• Program commentary

• Broadcasting date

• Broadcasting time

GUIDE button dis-

To see detailed information of a desired program entry, put the highlight bar on your choice with the and press button.

To switch over to another service, press the

To see an electronic program guide for radio broadcast, press

button. To turn it back, press button again.

Pressing the button displays the electronic program guide for each service. To turn it back, press the button again.

You can make a timer recording by the electronic program guide, for which refer to § 7.1.3.

5.4 Selecting an audio track

Some programs are provided with audio tacks of one or more languages. Pressing button lists, if any, available audio tracks. However, if a multifeed service is available at the moment, a multifeed service list will be displayed. In this case, you have to press button once more to select an audio track. Select your desired audio language in the list, and it will be sounded. In addition, you could enjoy, if available, one among

four sound modes: Stereo, Mono, Left or Right.

¤£¡

P+ or

¤£¡

V− or

¤£¡

P− button

¤£¡

V+ button.

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5.5 Selecting a subtitle track

Some programs are provided with subtitle tracks of one or more languages. When you view an information box, a subtitle symbol ( ) will be marked on it if one or more subtitle

tracks are provided. If it is, press button, then available subtitle tracks will be listed. Select your desired subtitle language in the list, and it will be displayed.

5.6 Viewing a teletext

Some programs are provided together with such proﬁtable information as weather reports, news or stock quotations by means of teletext. Televisions are supposed to process teletext; however, there rarely are televisions being incapable of that. Even if your televsion cannot process teletext, you can enjoy it with the digital receiver.

When you view an information box, a teletext symbol ( ) will be marked on it if it is provided. Press button to view a teletext. You can zoom in the teletext with the button and adjust the transparency of teletext with the button. To clear the teletext, press the

¤£¡

EXIT button.

5.7 Selecting a multifeed service

Some pay service provider provides one program through several services at the same time but with time differences. Those are called multifeed services.

Service No. Starting time

101 13:00 PM

102 13:15 PM

103 13:30 PM

104 13:45 PM

105 14:00 PM

For example, assume a movie would be broadcasted through ﬁve services like the table on the left. Even if you have missed the ﬁrst service, you can use the rest service to watch the movie.

When you view an information box, a multifeed symbol ( ) will be marked on it if it is available. To select a multifeed service, press button, then available multifeed services will be listed. Select your desired multifeed service in the list, and it will be shown. At this time, you have to press button once more to select an audio track.

5.8 Watching by time shift

When you are watching a program, you can reverse and watch it again as if it is a recording. This function is called time shift. When you are watching a program using the time shift function, it is in fact being recorded temporarily.

5.8 Watching by time shift 33

To use the time shift function,

the Time Shifting option have to be set to Enable. Refer the Time Shifting option to § 3.6.

How to use the time shift function is as follows:

1. Press button, then a time shift begins as a progress

bar appears. The progress bar has two pointers. One indicates recording position, and the other indicates playback position. While this bar is on display, you can move the program backward or forward. Pressing makes the progress bar appear and disapper alternatively.

2. To ﬁnd a desired playback position, press or

button unceasingly until ﬁnd it.

3. Pressing the button reverses the program to 10 sec-

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onds back.

4. To end time shift, display the progress bar with

button and press button.

5.9 Watching by picture in picture

How to use the picture-in-picture function is as follows:

1. Press the button to display a subpicture, in which

another service will be shown.

You can watch two services at the same time, one of which is shown in a subpicture. This function is called Picture-inPicture (PiP).

2. Pressing the button once more miniﬁes the subpic-

ture, and pressing it once again hides the subpicture.

3. Pressing the

with the subpicture. Even when you play back a recording, you can watch a live service in subpicture. However, the picture interchange will not work in that case.

4. Pressing button moves the subpicture counterclock-

wise, and pressing button moves it clockwise.

5. To display a service list for the subpicture, press but-

ton.

6. If both are pay services all, the only main-picture will be

shown.

¤£¡

SAT button interchanges the main-picture

Editing favorite list

You can make your own favorite service list. To edit your

favorite list, select the Organizing Favorties menu; then an ed-

itable favorite list appears.

Chapter 6

Listing Services

There are a group list on the left column, a favorite list on the center column and a service list on the right column.

You can add a favorite entry performing the follwoing steps:

1. Put the hightlight bar on a desired group entry in the

group list and press the

¤£¡

OK button.

36 Listing Services

2. Then the highlight bar of the service list becomes mov-

able. Put the hightlight bar on a desired service entry and press the

¤£¡

OK button.

3. Then the selected service entry is added in the favorite

list. You can select more entries to add.

4. Press the button to select another group. Whenever

pressing the button, the highlight bar of each column becomes movable in turn.

You can add groups up to 30. To add a group, select the NEW

command in the group list; then a on-screen keyboard appears.

You can move the highlight key horizontally with the tically with the ing the

¤£¡

V− and

¤£¡

OK button on a key enters the cor-

¤£¡

P+ and

¤£¡

V+ buttons and ver-

¤£¡

P− buttons. Press-

responding letter in the input line.

To type lower case letters or numerals, select the Other key. To

delete a letter, put the cursor on a desired letter in the input

line and select the Del key. You must select the Save key to

complete naming. Otherwise if you press the

¤£¡

EXIT button, it

will not be named.

To rename a group, put the highlight bar on a desired group entry to rename and press the button; then the on-screen keyboard will appear likewise.

To delete a group, put the highlight bar on a desired group entry to delete and press the button; then a conﬁrmation

box appears. The selected group will be deleted with the Yes

reply.

Similarly, you can delete a favorite entry with the

¤£¡

OK button

in the favorite list.

To add radio services, press button; then radio service en-

tries will be listed in the service list. To recall the television service list after adding radio services, press button again.

With your favorite service list, you can select your favorite services more handily. Refer to § 5.1 for more descriptions.

38 Recording and Playing Back

Recording and Playing Back

With one tuner of the digital receiver, you can record a service and at the same time watch another service if the two services are provided thorugh a same transponder. The TF 5000 PVRt Masterpiece digital receiver has two tuners so that you can enjoy the following things:

• It is possible to record two different services as watch-

ing two other different services only if two or more services are provided through a same transponder and the other services are provided through another same transponder. You can watch two services at the same time using picture-in-picture function in this case. For detailed description about the picture-in-picture function, refer to § 5.9.

Chapter 7

• It is possible to record two different services as watch-

ing one of them with time shift function. For detailed description about the time shift function, refer to § 5.8.

• It is possible to record two different services as playing

back a recording ﬁle.

7.1 Recording a program 39

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7.1 Recording a program

Once a recording is started, a recording symbol like the next ﬁgure will be displayed on the right top of

the screen for a few seconds. When you are watching a service different from the service being recorded, you can view a number on the center of the symbol, which indicates the order that the recording is started. The outer circle of the recording symbol indicates progress rate.

NOTE When a recording is ﬁnished, it might not be saved if

its recording duration is less than 1 minute.

7.1.1 Immediate recording by the remote control

To record a program you are watching at present, press button.

To pause recording, press button. To resume it, press

button again.

After a recording is started, pressing displays a recording control box like the next ﬁgure, in which you can specify its duration on which it will be ended.

A current recording will be stopped after the time set to the

Duration parameter. If the information about the next pro-

grams is provided through the electronic program guide, the

After this program and After next program options would be available. Once the After this program option is selected, the

40 Recording and Playing Back

current recording will be stopped the moment the current pro-

gram ends; likewise, once the After next program option is se-

lected, the current recording will be stopped the moment the next program ends.

Selecting the Record pausecommand pauses recording. When

you press button again to display the recording control

box, the Record continue command is displayed instead. Selecting the Record continue command resumes recording.

After a recording is started, you can switch over to and watch any other service during the recording. To record another service additionally, switch over to a service you want to record, and press button.

Once a recording is started, it is put on the recording ﬁle list even though it is not ﬁnished yet. The recording ﬁle is named after its service name with a sufﬁx of a number. To display the recording ﬁle list, press button. For detailed description about the recording ﬁle list, refer to § 7.2.

To stop recording, press button. Then a conﬁrmation box like the next ﬁgure appears, which shows the information of programs being recorded at the moment. Select a program you want to stop.

7.1.2 Making a timer recording

You can make a program to be recorded at a speciﬁc time. Even If the digital receiver is off, it will be turned on and start recording at a time speciﬁed. The digital receiver will be turned off again as the recording ends.

7.1 Recording a program 41

To make a timer recording, se-

lect the Timer Setting menu;

then a timer list appears.

To add a new timer entry, press the button, and then a timer edit box appears.

You have to set the Record option to On to record a program. If this option is set to Off, the digital receiver will be turned

on at a speiﬁed time but not record; instead, you may record a program with your video recorder in this case.

If you want to record a radio program, set the Type option to Radio. Otherwise set to TV.

Set the Service parameter to the service which provides the

program you want. Pressing the

¤£¡

OK button on this parameter

displays a service list in which you can select a desired service.

There are 5 timer modes:

One Time means literally ‘one time’ as it stands. Every Day means literally ‘every day’ as it stands. Every Weekend means ‘Saturday and Sunday per week’. Weekly means ‘one day per week’. Every Weekday means ‘from Monday to Friday per week’.

If your favorite program is broadcasted at weekend and you

wish to record every episode of the program, set the Mode option to Every Weekend.

42 Recording and Playing Back

Set the Date parameter to a date, on which your porgram will

be recorded. The date format is day/month/year–day of the week.

Set the Start Time parameter to a time, at which your program

will be recorded. You can enter it with the numeral buttons. The time format is hours:minute.

Set the Duration parameter to a time, after which your record-

ing will be ﬁnished.

The allowable maximum value is 23 hours and 55 minutes.

Pressing keyboard, with which you can specify a ﬁle name for your timer recording. If you do not specify anything, it will be named after its service name. For how to use the keyboard, refer to Chapter 6.

To make an entry with the above settings, do press the OK

command. otherwise it will not be made.

You can edit or delete a timer entry in the timer list. To delete a timer entry, put the highlight bar on the entry you want and press the button. To edit a timer entry, put the highlight bar on the entry you want and press edit box appears, in which you can change its timer settings.

¤£¡

OK on the File Nameparameter displays an on-screen

¤£¡

OK button, then the timer

7.1.3 Recording by electronic program guide

The Australian electronic program guide is provided by IceTV and your digital receiver comes with a 6 month prepaid subscription. This lets you schedule recordings by simply clicking on the name of the program. The program guide is automatically fetched through the Internet.

For instructions on setting up IceTV please visit http://www. icetv.com.au/topfield. How to set a timer recording by the program guide is as follows.

1. Select the service you want to record.

2. Press the

guide.

3. Select a program you want to record. Pressed the

button one time, P is marked up on the program entry; pressed once more, R is marked up. The former indi-

cates turn-on, the latter indicates record-on.

4. This timer recording is put on the timer list. To edit this

timer recording, press button, then a timer edit box appears, in which you can change its timer settings.

5. To remove the marking, press the

GUIDE button to display its electronic program

7.1.4 Recording when using time shift

While you are watching a program by time shift function, you can record the program by performing the following steps:

7.1 Recording a program 43

¤£¡

OK button once again.

1. Press button to start time shift.

2. To ﬁnd a desired recording position, press button

or button unceasingly until you ﬁnd it.

3. Press button to start recording.

4. Press button to stop time shift.

5. Press button once more to stop recording.

For detailed description about time shift function, refer to §

5.8.

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7.2 File list

In recording a program, it is stored as a ﬁle in the built-in hard disk of the digital receiver. You can choose and play back a recording ﬁle you want in the recording ﬁle list.

In addition to the recording ﬁle list, there are MP3 ﬁle list and Topﬁeld Application Program (TAP) ﬁle list. With the digital receiver, you can enjoy music or audio books of MP3 format in the same manner as playing back a recording ﬁle.

For detailed description about Topﬁeld application program, refer to Chapter 8.

To see the recording ﬁle list, press button.

To turn to another list, press

button or button.

In a ﬁle list, a ﬁle entry is comprised of the following information: ﬁle number, ﬁle name, recording time, ﬁle size and so on. You are able to play back, move, delete, rename and lock a ﬁle entry in a ﬁle list. You are also able to sort the ﬁle entries by ﬁle name, recording time or ﬁle size. Moreover, you can make a new folder.

To make a new folder

To make a new folder, press button. Then a new folder

named GROUP # is created. You can rename the folder in the

same manner as renaming a ﬁle entry.

To move a ﬁle to another folder

To move a ﬁle to another folder, put the highlight bar on a ﬁle entry you want and press button. Then a folder list appears. Once you choose a folder in the list, the ﬁle gets moved to that folder.

To delete a ﬁle

To delete a ﬁle, put the highlight bar on a ﬁle entry you want and press button. Then a conﬁrmation box appears. The

selected ﬁle will be deleted with the Yes reply.

To sort ﬁle entries

To sort ﬁle entries, perform the following steps:

1. Put the highlight bar on a ﬁle entry you want.

2. Press button to display an option list.

3. Set the Sortingoption to Alphabetic, Time or Size as you

want.

4. Press the

5. The ﬁle entries are sorted by the option speciﬁed.

¤£¡

EXIT button.

7.2 File list 45

To rename a ﬁle

To rename a ﬁle, perform the following steps:

1. Put the highlight bar on a ﬁle entry you want.

2. Press button to display an option list.

3. Select the Rename menu to display an on-screen key-

board.

4. Enter and save a ﬁle name as you want with the key-

board. For how to use the keyboard, refer to Chapter 6.

5. The ﬁle is renamed as speciﬁed.

You can rename a folder in the same manner.

46 Recording and Playing Back

To lock a recording ﬁle

To lock a ﬁle, perform the following steps:

1. Put the highlight bar on a ﬁle entry you want.

2. Press button to display an option list.

3. To lock the ﬁle, set the Lock option to Locked.

4. To unlock the ﬁle, set the Lock option to Unlocked.

5. Press the

6. A lock symbol is displayed on the ﬁle entry.

When you press the back, you must enter the personal identiﬁcation number spec-

iﬁed in the Parental Control menu. For the Parental Control

menu, refer to § 3.4.

NOTE This function is available only in the recording ﬁle list

¤£¡

EXIT button.

7.3 Playing back a recording

When recording a program, all of service characteristics are recorded as they are. So, in playing back a recording ﬁle, you can enjoy its audio tracks, subtitle tracks and teletexts if available.

How to play back a recording ﬁle is as follows:

¤£¡

OK button on a locked ﬁle entry to play it

1. Press button to display the recording ﬁle list.

2. Put the highlight bar on a ﬁle entry you want to play

back.

3. Press the

4. To stop playback, press button.

¤£¡

OK button to start playback.

7.3 Playing back a recording 47

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Once a playback is started, a playback symbol like the next ﬁgure will be displayed on the right top of the screen for a few seconds. The outer circle of the

playback symbol indicates progress rate.

During a playback, you can enjoy the following tricks:

• To see the detailed information about a recording ﬁle be-

ing played back, press to display an information box. The information box shows its ﬁle name, broadcaster information, service information, duration and so on.

• To pause playback, press button. To resume it,

press button.

• To ﬁnd a desired playback position, press button

or button unceasingly until you ﬁnd it.

• To see a current playback position, press button to

display a progress bar. To hide the progress bar, press

again.

You can specify a playback position entering percent with the numeral buttons when the progress bar is hidden.

7.3.1 To play back in slow motion

To play back in slow motion, press button on playback. Whenever pressing button, playback speed changes in

3 steps:

and

press button.

7.3.2 To play back in fast motion

To play back in fast motion, press button on playback. Whenever pressing button, playback speed changes in 3 steps: 2, 4 and 6 times speed. To return to normal speed, press

button.

times speed. To return to normal speed,

48 Recording and Playing Back

The digital receiver can play back not only forward but also backward in fast motion. To play back backward in fast motion, press button. Whenever pressing button, playback speed changes in 3 steps: 1, 2 and 3 times speed. To turn to forward playback, press button.

7.3.3 To play back recordings in sequence

The digital receiver can play back several recording ﬁles in sequence. To use this utility, perform the following steps:

1. Press button to display the recording ﬁle list.

2. Select ﬁle entries you want to play back by pressing

button.

3. When a ﬁle entry is selected, it is numbered.

4. Press the

of your entries.

5. The selected recording ﬁles are played back in sequence

that they are numbered.

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OK button to start playback after selecting all

7.3.4 To make a bookmark

1. Start playback of a recording ﬁle you want.

You can specify a playback position as a bookmark with button and jump to the position with button. You can make 64 bookmarks at maximum. Bookmarks are stored with the recording ﬁle so that you can use them again afterwards. To use this utility, perform the following steps:

2. To add a bookmark, press button at a position you

want.

3. To jump to a following bookmark, press button.

4. To delete a bookmark, jump to the bookmark you want

and press button.

When there is no preset bookmark, pressing button makes a jump forward 30 seconds.

7.3.5 To play back a recording repeatedly

The digital receiver can play back a recording ﬁle repeatedly both in whole and in part.

To play back a recording ﬁle repeatedly in whole, press button on condition that the progress bar is hidden. Then an information box with a repeat symbol is displayed. To quit the repeated playback, press button again.

To play back a recording ﬁle repeatedly in part, perform the following steps:

1. Start playback of a recording ﬁle you want.

7.3 Playing back a recording 49

2. Press button to display a progress bar.

3. Find one end position of a block you want to specify

with button or button.

4. Press button at the position, then the point starts to

blink.

5. Find the other end postion.

6. Press button at the position again, then the block

turns to green and starts to be played back repeatedly.

7. Press button to hide the progress bar.

8. To withdraw the block, press button on condition

that the progress bar is displayed.

50 Recording and Playing Back

7.4 Editing a recording

7.4.1 To erase a block from a recording

You can cut out a block such as commercial ﬁlm from a recording ﬁle by performing the following steps:

1. Start playback of a recording ﬁle you want.

2. Press button to display a progress bar.

3. Find one end position of a block you want to specify

with button or button.

4. Press button at the position, then the pointer starts

to blink.

5. Find the other end postion.

6. Press button at the position again, then a conﬁrma-

tion box appears.

7. Select the Cut command, then the block is erased.

7.4.2 To store a block from a recording

You can store a block from a recording ﬁle by performing the following steps:

1. Start playback of a recording ﬁle you want.

2. Press button to display a progress bar.

3. Find one end position of a block you want to specify

with button or button.

4. Press button at the position, then the pointer starts

to blink.

5. Find the other end postion.

6. Press button at the position again, then a conﬁrma-

tion box appears.

7.5 Playing a MP3 51

Circle

7. Select the Save command, then the block is stored. The

stored ﬁle will named after its source ﬁle with a sufﬁx of ‘CUT’ and a number

In addition, you can copy a recording ﬁle in whole or in part when playing back it.

1. Start playback of a recording ﬁle you want.

2. Find a desired position from which a copy will be started

with button or button.

3. Press button.

4. Pressing button stops copying. The copied ﬁle will

be named after its source ﬁle with a sufﬁx of ‘COPY’ and a number.

Once a copy is started, a copying symbol like the next ﬁgure will be displayed on the right top of the screen for a few seconds. To see copying status, press

button. The outer circle of the copying symbol indicates

progress rate.

NOTE If copying time is less than about 1 minute, the copy-

ing will not be done successfully. It is recommended not to change the playback speed.

7.5 Playing a MP3

To play a MP3 ﬁle with the digital receiver, you have to transfer your MP3 ﬁles to the digital receiver from your personal computer. For how to transfer your MP3 ﬁles to the digital receiver, refer to § 9.3.

To play a MP3 ﬁle, perform the following steps:

1. Press button, and then press button or

button to display the MP3 ﬁle list.

52 Recording and Playing Back

2. Put the highlight bar on a ﬁle entry you want to play.

If you want to play several ﬁles, select them with button.

3. Press

4. To see the detailed information about a MP3 ﬁle being

5. To stop play, press button.

When a MP3 ﬁle is being played, pressing lineﬁgRepeatButton turns around repeat mode, symbol of which is displayed on the information box. symbol represents that a current MP3 ﬁle will be played repeatedly. symbol represents that all seleted MP3 ﬁles will be played repeatedly in turn.

To play all MP3 ﬁles in a subfolder, select a desired folder and press button.

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played, press to display an information box. The information box shows its ﬁle name, album, artist, duration and so on.

7.6 Formatting hard disk

OK button to start play.

To format the hard disk of the digital receiver, select the Installation > Format Hard Disk menu.

Formatting the hard disk will delete all ﬁles permanently. If a new hard disk drive is installed, it must be formatted because the ﬁle system of the digital receiver is different from any of the personal computer. You cannot use time shift and record functions with an unformatted hard disk.

Chapter 8

Topﬁeld Application Program

If you are good at programming with C++ language, you can make a program executable in the digital receiver. We call this Topﬁeld Application Program (TAP). In making a TAP, it is recommended to use Diab compiler of Wind River, whose web site address is http://www.windriver.com. Some variants of GCC compiler also might perhaps be available as a compiler for TAPs. You can get the Application Program Interface (API) libraries for TAPs from the Topﬁeld web site, http://www.i-topfield.com.

Your TAPs will be run under the following conditions:

• Their extension name is tap. If they have any other ex-

tension name, they will be ignored.

• They are in the Program Files folder. If they are in other

folders, they will be ignored.

For how to transfer your program to the digital receiver, refer to § 9.3.

To run a TAP in the digital receiver, perform the following steps:

54 Topﬁeld Application Program

1. Press button to display the program ﬁle list.

2. Place the highlight bar on a ﬁle entry you want to run.

3. Press the

4. To exit the program, press the

In the program ﬁle list, you can use a variety of ﬁle control functions including: renaming, sorting, deleting and so on. For detailed descriptions about ﬁle control functions, refer to

§ 7.2.

If you want a program to run automatically when the digital

receiver starts up, move the program to the Auto Start folder.

Press the

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0 button at start-up if you want the program not to

run.

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OK button to start the program.

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EXIT button.

The ﬁgure on the left is a running screen of a TAP, Image Viewer, which displays image ﬁles of BMP, GIF and JPG format. This TAP is available from the Topﬁeldweb site, http:// www.i-topfield.com.

Chapter 9

Firmware Update and Data

Transfer

The digital receiver has a stable and convenient ﬁrmware to use. However, a new ﬁrmware may be released to improve the digital receiver. You can get a latest ﬁrmware and update utilites from the Topﬁeld web site, http://www.i-topfield. com.

You should check the ﬁrmware information of your digital receiver before downloading a new ﬁrmware. To check the current information of the digital

receiver, select the Information > IRD Status menu.

NOTE You have to update with only the new ﬁrmware of

which System ID is identical to yours. otherwise you

56 Firmware Update and Data Transfer

will fail in ﬁrmware update.

9.1 Updating the ﬁrmware

From a computer via USB port

You can transfer a new ﬁrmware to the digital receiver from your computer connecting them with a USB cable. You need TFDN USB, the ﬁrmware transfer utility for this, which is available at the Topﬁeld web site, http://www.i-topfield.com.

To update ﬁrmware with this method, perform the following steps:

1. Download a new ﬁrmware applicable to the digital re-

ceiver from the Topﬁeld web site.

2. Download TFDN USB from the Topﬁeld web site.

3. Plug a USB cable into the USB port on the digital re-

ceiver and the corresponding port on your computer.

4. Turn on the digital receiver.

5. Run TFDN USB.

How to use TFDN USB is as follows:

1. Press

new ﬁrmware ﬁle.

2. Press

the ﬁle transfer.

3. Press

ﬁle transfer.

4. Restart the digital receiver.

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Find button to select the

Download button to start

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Stop button to cancel the

From a computer via RS232 port

It is possible to transfer a new ﬁrmware to the digital receiver from your computer connecting them with a RS232 cable. You need TFD-Down, the ﬁrmware transfer utility for this, which is available at the Topﬁeld web site, http://www.i-topfield. com.

To update ﬁrmware with this method, perform the following steps:

1. Download a new ﬁrmware applicable to the digital re-

ceiver from the Topﬁeld web site.

2. Download TFD-Down from the Topﬁeld web site.

3. Plug a RS232 cable into the RS-232 port on the digital

receiver and the corresponding port on your computer.

4. Turn on the digital receiver.

5. Run TFD-Down.

How to use TFD-Down is as follows:

1. Press

ﬁrmware ﬁle.

2. Press

transfer.

3. Press

transfer.

9.1 Updating the ﬁrmware 57

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Find button to select the new

Download button to start the ﬁle

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Stop button to cancel the ﬁle

4. Restart the digital receiver.

From another digital receiver via RS232 port

It is possible to transfer a new ﬁrmware to the digital receiver from another same digital receiver connecting them with a RS232 cable.

58 Firmware Update and Data Transfer

To update ﬁrmware with this method, perform the following steps:

1. Plug a RS232 cable into the RS-232 port on the digital

receiver and the other’s.

2. Turn both of them on.

3. Select the Installation > Transfer Firmware > Transfer

Firmware to Other IRD menu.

9.2 Transferring the receiver data

The digital receiver retains such data as follows:

• Service list

• Favorite list

• Preference settings

It is possible to transfer receiver data to the digital receiver from another same digital receiver connecting them with a RS232 cable.

To transfer receiver data, perform the following steps:

1. Plug a RS232 cable into the RS-232 port on the digital

receiver and the other’s.

2. Turn both of them on.

3. Select the Installation > Transfer Firmware > Transfer

Data to Other IRD menu.

NOTE All of preference settings are transferred together with

service information when transferring receiver data. This means that you will lose all of your own data. So You had better memorize some important data such as video settings before starting transfer to avoid resetting them.

9.3 Transferring recording ﬁles

It is possible to transfer recording ﬁles from the digital receiver to your computer connecting them by a USB cable. The ﬁle transfer program, Altair is needed here, which is available at the Topﬁeld web site, http://www.i-topfield.com.

The method is as follows:

1. Download Altair from the Topﬁeld web site.

2. Plug a USB cable into the USB port on the digital re-

ceiver and the corresponding port on your computer.

3. Turn on the digital receiver.

4. Run Altair.

9.3 Transferring recording ﬁles 59

How to use Altair is as follows:

1. Select a ﬁle to transfer. The left hand list box displays

recording ﬁles in the digital receiver, and the right hand list box displays ﬁles in your computer.

2. To start a transfer from the digital receiver to your com-

puter, press

3. To start a transfer from your computer to the digital re-

ceiver, press

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→ button.

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← button.

60 INDEX

Index

Symbol

16:9,18 16:9 Display Format,19 1st Audio Language,15 1st Subtitle Language,15 2nd Audio Language,15 2nd Subtitle Language,15 4:3,18

A/V Output Setting,16 Access Control,23 Add to Fav,28 Advanced,26 After next program,39, 40 After this program,39 Alphabetic,45

Altair,59

ANT 1 IN,10, 12 ANT 2 IN,10, 12 Antenna Supply 5V,25

API,53

Application Program Interface,53

AUDIO L/R,10 Auto,26 Auto Start,54 AV,23

browsable service list,27

Button,4

C++,53

Censorship,22 Center extract,19 Change PIN Code,23 Channel,26

Composite Video Baseband Sig-

nal,17

Cut,50

CVBS,17

Date,42

Diab,53

Digital Video Broadcasting,1

Download,56, 57 Duration,39, 42

DVB,1

Electronic Program Guide,2, 30

EPG,2, 30

Euro-connector,17

Every Day,41 Every Weekday,41 Every Weekend,41

Factory Setting,26 File Name,42 Find,56, 57

folder list,44

Format Hard Disk,52

G,22

GCC,53

GMT,20

Greenwich Mean Time,20

Info Box DisplayTime,24 Info Box Position,24

information box,29

Integrated Receiver Decoder,23

IRD,23

IRD Status,55

Language Setting,14 Letter Box,19 Local Time,22 Lock,28, 46 Locked,46

M,23 MA,23 Manual,26 Menu Language,14 Mode,21, 22, 41

mono,19

multifeed,32

NEW,36 No block,22

normal-screen television,18

NTSC,16

on-screen keyboard,36

One Time,41

option list,45

Organizing Favorties,35 OSD Transparency,24

Packet Identiﬁer,26

PAL,16

Parental Control,22, 46

Personal Identiﬁcation Num-

ber,22

personal identiﬁcation number,46

PG,23

Picture-in-Picture,34

PID,26

PIN,22

PiP,34

program ﬁle list,54

Program Files,53

progress bar,47

R,23 Radio,41 Record,41 Record continue,40

62 INDEX

Record pause,40

recording ﬁle list,44

Rename,28, 45 RF Channel,20 RF IN,10, 13 RF LOOP 1 OUT,10, 12 RF LOOP 2 OUT,10, 12 RF OUT,11, 13, 19 RF Output,19

RGB,17

RS-232,11, 57, 58

S-VIDEO,10, 12

S-Video,17

S/PDIF,11 Save,50

SCART,16

Search Mode,26 Service,41 Service Search,25, 26 Show Provider,28 Size,45 Sorting,45 Sound Mode,19 Start Time,42

stereo,19

Stop,56, 57

subtitle,32

Super-Video,17

System ID,55 System Setting,24

TAP,44, 53

teletext,32

television service list,37

TFD-Down,57

TFDN USB,56

Time,45

time format,22

Time Offset,21 Time Setting,20, 23

time shift,33

Time Shifting,24, 33

timer list,41

Timer Setting,41

Topﬁeld Application Program,44,

Total block,22 Transfer Data to Other IRD,58 TransferFirmware toOther IRD,58

transponder,1

TV,10, 41 TV Aspect Ratio,18 TV Type,16 Type,41

Unlocked,46 USB,11, 56, 59

VCR,10 VCR Scart Type,17, 18 VIDEO,10 Video Output,17

Weekly,41

wide-screen television,18

Wind River,53

YUV,17

Warranty Information

Do not return this card to TOPFIELD AUSTRALIA

Equipment Details

Model Serial Number Date of Purchase TF5000PVRt Masterpiece

Please keep warranty card, proof of purchase and all manuals in a safe place as you will require these

when making a warranty claim.

Ensure that the following conditions are followed when operating the equipment. Failure

to do so may result in warranty being void.

• Do Not place the unit in a conﬁned cabinet or cupboard without proper ventilation.

• To prevent shock or hazard risk. Do Not place Liquid or Fluids near the appliance.

• Do Not place appliance in a dusty or wet location.

• Full warranty conditions are listed on the rear of this card.

• Prior to making a claim you should read through the troubleshooting section in the

manual and consult the Topﬁeld Australia web site, http://www.topfield.com.au.

For further Warranty information or to make a claim please contact Topﬁeld Australia on

1300 889 803.

12 month warranty is offered by the Manufacturer Topﬁeld Co.,Ltd.

Hanseo Bldg, 246-3, Seohyeon-dong, Bundang-gu,

Seongnam, 463-824, Korea.

Topﬁeld Australia acts as the Service agent in Australia for the manufacturer’s warranty

and can be contacted on 1300 889 803.

Warranty Conditions

1. Where required by Topﬁeld Australia only the original invoice/receipt issued by the dealer will

be accepted as proof of purchase.

2. Topﬁeld Australia may reject warranty claims on equipment which it believes to be illegally ac-

quired or when the ‘owner’ is unable to provide proof of purchase or where security labels or serial numbers have been tampered with or removed.

3. The warranty covers only defects in the material and workmanship of the product for a period of

12 months from the date of original purchase.

4. This warranty is on ‘Return to Base’ basis. The owner is responsible for the delivery of the equip-

ment to the point of purchase and for collecting the repaired or replaced equipment from the same location.

5. The warranty is void if failures arise as a result of any of the following. i) Abuse, misuse, physical

impact, normal wear and tear. ii) Alteration or repairs carried out without written authorization from Topﬁeld Australia. iii) Upgrade that are not registered by Topﬁeld Australia. iv) Operating or maintained other than in accordance with the manual supplied.

6. This equipment will not be considered defective as a result to incompatibility with other equip-

ment or accessories other than the ones supplied with the unit at the time of purchase.

7. This unit should be returned in its original carton and protective packaging or alternatively in

a packing suitable to prevent damage. Topﬁeld Australia will not accept any responsibility for goods damaged whilst the goods are in transit.

8. Repair or replacement under the terms of this warranty does not give the right to extension or a

beginning of a new warranty period. Repairs or replacements may be carried out with functionally equivalent reconditioned parts or equivalent part. Parts that have been replaced become the property of Topﬁeld Australia.

9. The customer acknowledges that no promise representation or undertaking has been given by

Topﬁeld Australia or its dealer in relation to equipment other than as contained in this warranty.

10. A service charge will apply if the fault is not covered within the conditions of this warranty or if

there is no fault found. The charge will be based on the current market rate.

11. Topﬁeld Australia is not liable for any other loss other than the unit itself.

12. Nothing contained in this warranty shall be read or applied so as to affect the right of the con-

sumer in relation to the provisions of the trade practices act or other statutory rights provided by legislation of the state or territory. In the absence of applicable legislation this warranty will be purchases sole and exclusive remedy and neither Topﬁeld Australia nor its distributors or agents shall be liable for any incidental or consequential damages for breach of any express or implied warranty of this equipment.

Correct disposal of this product

This marking shown on the product or its literature indicates that it should

not be disposed with other household wastes at the end of its working life.

To prevent possible harm to the environment or human health from uncon-

trolled waste disposal, please separate this from other types of wastes and

recycle it responsibly to promote the sustainable reuse of material resources.

Household users should contact either the retailer where they purchased

this product or their local government ofﬁce for details of where and how

they can dispose this product for environmentally safe recycling.

Business users should contact their supplier and check the terms and condi-

tions of the purchase contract. This product should not be mixed with other

commercial wastes for disposal.

Topﬁeld continues to improve the digital receiver which this guide explains. So some ex-

planations and illustrations in this guide could be different from the real digital receiver.

http://www.i-topfield.com 110T-F8926-20A-1 Rev. 2

Topfield TF 5000 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

1.1 Introduction

Introduction

1.2 Controlling the digital receiver

1.2.1 The front panel

1.2.2 The remote control

2.1 Packing contents

Installation

2.2 Safety precautions

2.3 Rear panel connections

2.4 Connecting the digital receiver

2.5 Inserting batteries in the remote control

14 Preference Settings

3.1 Language settings

3.2 Video and audio settings

3.2.1 Televsion standard

3.2.2 Color model

3.2.3 Video cassette recorder

3.2.4 Television aspect ratio

3.2.5 Sound mode

3.2.6 RF output

3.3 Local time setting

3.4 Parental control

3.5 Adjusting on-screen display

3.6 Enabling the time shift function

4.1 Searching broadcasting services

Service Search

4.2 Resetting to factory settings

5.1 Browsing services

Daily Usage

5.2 Viewing program information

5.3 Viewing an electronic program guide

5.4 Selecting an audio track

5.5 Selecting a subtitle track

5.6 Viewing a teletext

5.7 Selecting a multifeed service

5.8 Watching by time shift

5.9 Watching by picture in picture

Listing Services

38 Recording and Playing Back

7.1 Recording a program

7.1.1 Immediate recording by the remote control

7.1.2 Making a timer recording

7.1.3 Recording by electronic program guide

7.1.4 Recording when using time shift

7.2 File list

7.3 Playing back a recording

7.3.1 To play back in slow motion

7.3.2 To play back in fast motion

7.3.3 To play back recordings in sequence

7.3.4 To make a bookmark

7.3.5 To play back a recording repeatedly

7.4 Editing a recording

7.4.1 To erase a block from a recording

7.4.2 To store a block from a recording

7.5 Playing a MP3

7.6 Formatting hard disk

9.2 Transferring the receiver data

Index