TV Star T910, T910 USB PVR User Manual

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ENGLISH

DIGITAL TV RECEIVER

TV STAR T910 USB PVR

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CONTENIDO

1.SAFETY INFORMATION.......................................................................

2.INTRODUCTION...................................................................................

3.SYSTEM CONNECTION.......................................................................

BASIC OPERATIONS

4.WELCOME PAGE ................................................................................

5.EDIT CHANNEL....................................................................................

6.INSTALLATION.....................................................................................

7.SYSTEM SETUP ..................................................................................

8.TOOLS .................................................................................................

9.GAME....................................................................................................

10.REC.....................................................................................................

11.HOTKEY..............................................................................................

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18-21

21-25

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Safety Information

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Safety Information

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Introduction

Remote control

IR RECEIVER

USB PORT

Introduction

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Introduction

CHANNEL+

POWER

CHANNEL-

TV SCART

RF LOOP through

RF IN

POWER

RECORD

STOP

BLUE BUTTON/PVR

YELLOW BUTTON

19.EXIT

RECALL

GREEN BUTTON/FF

RED BUTTON/FB

PLAY

13.PAUSE

NUMERIC ENTRY

3.CH+

7.CH-

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System Connection

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4. Welcome Page

When turn on the power for the first time, the welcome page will be shown as below:

4 Press [Exit] key to exit welcome page and enter into main menu.

1 Press [Up/Down] key to move highlight. 2 Press [Left/Right] key to select region, language, Display mode, Aspect

mode. 3 Move highlight to [OK] button and press [OK] key to begin the auto scan.

1 Press [Up/Down] key to select menu pages among Edit Channel, Installation, System Setup, Tools, Game, and REC.

2 Press [OK] or [Right] key to enter the “Edit Channel”. If Menu Lock is “On”, a dialogue inquires the password, “0000” is for default.

3 Press [Up/ down] key to select menu items among TV Channel List, Radio Channel List and Delete All.

4 Press [Left] key or [Exit] key to go back to main menu.

5.1 TV Channel List

When entering the “TV Channel List” menu, the window shows as below.

5. Edit Channel

When pressing the [MENU] key to enter the main menu, which shows as below:

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1 Move the highlight by pressing [Channel Up/Channel Down] key then press [OK] key to preview the current highlighted program in the preview window.

2 By pressing [Page Up/Page Down] key to execute the Page Up/Page down function.

3 By pressing the [Volume Up/Volume Down] key to switch to different Program Group.

4 By pressing the [MENU] or [Exit] keys to go back to the “Edit Channel” menu. 5 By pressing the color key to execute the corresponding functions in “Channel List.

5.1.1 Favorite

1 Press the [FAV] key, and then [OK] key to open the “Favorite” window . 2 Move the highlight among the 8 favorite groups by pressing [Channel

Up/Channel Down] key, and press [OK] key to make a favorite mark in the left side of the selected Favorite group.

3 Press [OK] key on the marked Favorite group to cancel the existing favorite mark.

4 After marking, press [Exit] key to go back to “TV Channel List”, there will be a favorite mark beside the marked channel

5.1.2 Lock

1 Press [Red] key to enter the lock mode. 2 Press [Up/Down] key to move the highlight, and press [OK] key to

display a dialogue to ask you to input password, “0000” is for default. If the correct password is entered, then a “lock mark” can be seen on the right side of the highlighted channel.

3 After saving and exiting the menu, the password dialog will be required while you want to watch the locked channel.

5.1.4 Move

1 Press [Yellow] key, then press [Up/Down] key to move the highlight and press [OK] key to make a mark. There will be a “moving mark” in the right side of the selected channel .

5.1.3 Skip

1 Press [Green] key to enter skip mode. 2 Press [Up/Down] key to move the highlight and press [OK] to make a “skip mark” in the right side of the highlighted channel. 3 After saving and exiting menu, the channel will be skipped while user change channel in the full screen

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5.1.5 Edit

1 Press [Blue] key to open “Edit” menu. 2 Press [Exit] to exit “Edit Channel” menu. If you have done some modification

in “Edit Channel” menu, the system will show up a message box to inquire you whether saving or not when exiting.

5.1.5.1. Sort

1 Press [Red] key can open the “Sort” window. There are four kinds of sorting approaches. By Press [Channel Up/Channel Down] key to move highlight and press [OK] key to confirm your selection.

2 The four kinds of sorting approaches are: Name (A-Z): Sorting in Alphabetical descending Order.

Name (Z-A): Sorting in Alphabetical ascending Order. Lock: Collecting all locked channels and list in the bottom of TV Channel List.

Default: Return to original setting order.

2 By pressing [Up/ down] key to move the selected channel to the position that you want to place. Press [OK] key to confirm your decision.

5.1.5.2. Edit

In “Edit Channel” menu, press [Green], then press [Up/Down] key to move the highlight and press [OK] key to open the “Rename” window. Which shows as below:

5.2 Radio Channel List

Basically, the operations in “Radio Channel List” are almost the same as those of the “TV Channel List”.

5.1.5.3. Delete

Press [Blue] key, then press [Up/Down] key to move the highlight and press [OK] key to make a delete mark in the right side of the highlighted channel. After save and exit “Edit Channel” menu, the marked channel will be deleted.

1 Press [Yellow] key to switch whether capital or not.

2 Press [Red] key to delete the char on the cursor.

3 Press [Blue] key to save the modification.

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5.3 Delete All

Press [OK] key, it will pop up a warning message to inquire you whether delete all services or not .

1 If the selection is “Yes”, all channels will be deleted. 2 If the selection is “No” or press [Exit] key, this function will be ignored

directly without saving. Frequently asked Questions Q: IF I recklessly delete all channels, what should I do?

A: There are two ways to restore: To re-search all channels in “Installation” functions. Use “load Factory setting” function to restore all channels in “Tools” function.

6. Installation

When you enter the “Installation” menu, the menu will be displayed as below:

1 Press [Up/Down] key to select menu pages among Auto scan, Channel scan, Aerial adjustment, LCN.

2 Press [OK] or [Right] key to enter the “Installation”. If Menu Lock is “On”, then a dialogue to inquiry the password will be shown. The default Password is “0000”. 3 Press [Up/ down] key to select menu items.

4 Press [Left] key or [Exit] key to go back to main menu.

6.1 Auto Scan

When you enter to “Auto Scan” menu, there will display the screen like below:

1 In “FTA only” item, press [Left/Right] key to turn yes/no. 2 Moving the highlight to “Search” item and press [OK] key to start scanning.

3 In the “Auto Scan” menu, press [Exit] key to draw back from the scanning.

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7 Press [Exit] key to exit the scanning.

6.2 Channel Scan

When entering to “Channel Scan” menu, a channel scan menu will be shown as below:

1 There are two choices of “Scan Mode,” by channel or by frequency. If you scan by channel, “Scan Band” and “Ch No” are available to be

adjusted. If you scan by frequency, “Frequency” and “Bandwidth” are available to de adjusted.

2 There are two choices of “Scan Band,” “UHF” or “VHF.” 3 There are 56 choices of “CH No” ranging from In frequency

“CH05(177500Hz) ” to “CH69(858000Hz).” 4 You can adjust any frequency to search by. 5 There are three choices of “Bandwidth”, 6, 7, and 8 MHz. 6 When you complete your modification, move highlight to “Search” item

and press [OK] key, then it will begin to scan.

6.4 LCN

LCN: To toggle the LCN mode On/Off

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6.3 Aerial Adjustment

When entering to “Aerial Adjustment” menu, a menu will be displayed as below:

1 The user can check and adjust the Signal Intensity and Signal Quality of every C

2 Tuner Power :on/off

and Signal Quality of every Ch No.

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Press [Up/Down] key to select menu pages among Language，TV system， Local time setting, Time setting Parental lock, Osd setting，Favorite.

7.1 Language

When entering the “Language” menu, you will see the screen as below:

1 Language: press [Volume Up/ Volume Down] key to select menu languages, the selections of languages include:English, French,Poland,Lithuania, Italian,

Portuguese, Russia, Latvia, Latvia, Slovenia.

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2 First Audio: Some channels have more than one available audio language; with this function, a user can set the first audio for this channel. If the playing channel has the same audio as the “First Audio” you set, system will play this audio language as default. If the channel hasn’t the suited audio language, then the system will compare automatically with the second audio language.

3 Second Audio: If the channel contains the audio track corresponding to the “Second Audio” instead of the “First Audio”, system will play the second audio language as default. If no audio language corresponds to

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When entering to “System Setup” menu, a menu will be displayed as below:

7. System Setup

Auto Standby

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The following options are provided: 4:3 PS, 4:3 LB, 16:9, AUTO Auto means system won’t do any aspect ratio switching.

4 Press [Exit] key to draw back from “TV System” menu

1 Video Resolution:To switch the system output video resolution. 2 Aspect Mode:To switch the screen aspect ratio. By pressing [Left/Right] key to select each mode circularly.

7.2 TV System

When entering the “TV System” menu, you will see the screen as below:

1 Region: Select the country which the user is in. 2 GMT Usage: Set to be ON/OFF.

7.3 Local Time Setting

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the “Second Audio”, then the default language of current channel will be played automatically.

4 Subtitle Language: Some channels have more than one subtitle for choosing.With this function, a user can set the specified subtitle language. If the playing channel has the same subtitle language as the “Subtitle Language” the user set, system will play this subtitle language as default. If the channel hasn’t the suited subtitle language, then the default subtitle language of current channel will be played automatically.

5 Teletext: The user can set teletext language. If the streams have this language you can see the teletext in language you set.

6 Press [Exit] key to draw back from “Language” menu.

3 Video out: setting the TV video output mode, there are two options are

procvide: RGB/CVBS

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7.4 Timer Setting

Select “Timer Setting” item and press [OK] key to enter “Timer list” menu.

Press [up/down] key to select a timer, then press [ENTERZ] key to open and adjust the timer menu.

7.5 Parental Lock

Press [OK] key on “Parental Lock” item, a dialogue will be pop up to ask for the password (“0000” for default.) Once the user make the password correct, a screen will be shown as below.

1 Menu Lock: determining the users’ intention to block the following menus with password: “Edit Channel /Installation/Tools”.

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3 GMT Offset: Valid only when the setting of “GMT Usage” is “On”. By pressing [Left/Right] keys to switch “GMT Offset” values ranging from

-11:30 ~ +12:00, with the increment unit by half an hour.

4 Summer Time: Valid only when the setting of “GMT Usage” is “On”. When “Summer Time” is “On”, one hour will be added .

5 “Date” and “Time” items: Valid only when the setting of “GMT Usage” is “Off”. By pressing [Left/Right] keys to moving highlight and the number keys for inpout.

6 Press [Exit] key to draw back from “Time” menu

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When entering the “OSD Setting” menu, a screen will be shown as below:

1 OSD Timeout: set the duration of showing up for the program banner which contains some information about the channel and shows up once the channel is changed.

2 OSD Transparency: set the transparency of OSD.

Press [Left/Right] key to select the values. There are 5 levels of transparency, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and “Off” (Opaque of the OSD).

3 Load Default OSD Setting: press OK to restore default OSD setting.

4 Press [Exit] key to draw back from the “OSD Setting” menu.

7.7 Favortie

When entering the “Favorite” menu, a screen will be shown as below:

press [OK] key to rename the favorite group. A dialog shows as below:

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7.6 OSD Setting

2 Channel Lock: determining the users’ intention to play or lock channels with password. If the setting is “Yes”, then the password will be asked to play the channels with lock mark.

3 New Password: used for revising password, by keying in the new password in this item. After the 4 digital numbers are filled, the Confirm Password item will ask you to input the new password again. If the password is correct, the screen will show up a message of “Saving Data, Please Wait…” After finishing saving and drawing back to “System Setup” menu, the revising is completed.

4 Press [Exit] key to draw back from the “Parental Lock” menu.

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In “Tools” menu:

1 Press [Up/Down] key to select menu pages among Information, Load factory setting, S/W Upgrade by OTA, Upgrade by USB, USB device, Remove USB device safely.

8.1 Information

When entering the “Information” menu, a screen will be shown as below. It shows the version and date for the items such as “boot loader, main code, radio back, country band, user db” information.

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1 Press [Yellow] key to switch whether capital or not. 2 Press [Red] key to delete the char on the cursor. 3 Press [Blue] key to save the modification.

8. Tools

Press [OK] or [Right] key to enter the “Tools”. If Menu Lock is “On”, it will display a dialogue for user to key in password. The default Password is “0000”.

7.8 Auto Standby

The STB will be automatically switched into standby mode after three hours in active mode following the last user interaction and/ or a channel change,an alert message will show 2 minutes before going into standby mode.

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8.2 Load Factory Setting

press [OK] to load defaults settings, warning inquiry will be popup as below. Once the “Yes” option is chosen, the all revised parameters of the receiver will be reset to the default alue. Please use this function carefully.

8.3 Upgrade by USB

This function is only valid when the USB device has been plugged-in and attached at the receiver box. Open Upgrade by USB menu according to Menu -> Tools-> Upgrade By USB.

1. All Code: the user can only upgrade whole file to the STB flash ROM. Please rename the new file name

to be the format as “all*.bin”, Then

Press OK key to start upgrade by USB.

8.4 USB Device

USB menu will automatically be shown once inserting the USB disk to USB port, except the status of auto scanning, multi picture displaying, and upgrading. Another way to open USB menu is to go step by step according to SETUP ->Tools->USB Device. USB menu will be disabled when the USB device is unplugged. Media Player List will not be saved after unplugging USB and/or going to standby and power off. Media player menu will be shown as below:

2. Main Code: the user can only upgrade part of the main code. Please

confirm the upgrading file format is “mcd*.bin” Radio Back: the user

can upgrade the background logo. Please confirm the associated file

name of the upgrading file to be as “*.m2v”

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Music/Image play operation

Press Yellow key to enter into playlist and select music/group image

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key operations: FAV key: Put the selected file to play list . 0 Key: All the MP3 files in current directory will be added into MP3 play list . 1 Key: All the Image files in current directory will be added into Image play list. 2 Key:There are four kinds of sorting approaches. By Press [Channel Up/ Channel Down] key to move highlight and press [OK] key to confirm your selection. The four kinds of sorting approaches are: Name (A-Z): Sorting in Alphabetical descending Order. Name (Z-A): Sorting in Alphabetical ascending Order. Lock: Collecting all locked channels and list in the bottom of TV Channel List. Default: Return to original setting order. Yellow Key: The “Please select play list type” operation window will be shown by pressing Yellow key. After that, the user can play the image or music by choosing the files. If here is no file in the directory, an operation window “This type of play list doesnot exist” will be shown. INFO: Set up slide show of images. Blue Key: To rotate among the 3 repeat modes provided as below:

Repeat Folder

The entire Random Folder

Repeat Single

EPG Key: Change the different disk.

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3 Press [Up/Down] key and [OK] key to select menu items 4 Press [Left] key or [Exit] key to go back to main menu.

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Yellow key.

9. Game

There are two games for selection:Othello/Sodolcu.

Red Key: Play the file list from the 1st music file. Yellow Key: Delete the file highlighted by Blue Key: Delete all files by blue Key, with a remind “Are you sure to save?”

8.5 Remove USB device safely

Before removing the USB device, press “Remove USB device safely” first, with a reminding “You can safely remove USB device now!”. Then the USB device can be removed without concern.

1 Press [Up/Down] key to select menu pages among record manager Record manager, DVR HDD Information, HDD FORMAT, Dvr configuration.

2 Press [OK] or [Right] key to enter the “REC”. If Menu Lock is “On”, it will display a dialogue for user to key in password. The default Password is “0000”.

10. REC

When you enter to “REC” menu, you will see the screen like below:

NOTE :

- We cannot guarantee compatibility (operation and/or bus power) with all USB mass storage devices and assume no responsibility for any loss of data that may occur when connected to this unit.

- With large amounts of data, it may take longer for the system to read the contents of a USB device.

- Some USB devices may not be properly recognized.

- Even when they are in a supported format, some files may not play or display depending on the file codecs and content.

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1 Press [Green] key to lock a program on HDD.

2 If you want to cancel the lock mark for a program, press [Green] key

again. It will ask you to input password. Once you input the correct

password, it will cancel the lock feature for the program.

10.1.1 Lock

10.1.2 Delete

1 Press [Blue] key to make a delete mark on the highlight program.

10.1 Record manager

10.1.3 Rename

1 Press [Red] key to rename the highlight program. It will show the “Rename” window.

2 You can press [Yellow] key to switch capital and lowercase. 3 Press [Red]key to delete the char on the cursor.

4 Press [Blue]key to save the modification.

2 If you want to cancel the delete operation, press [Blue] key again to cancel the delete mark.

3 When exit the “Record Manager” menu, all the delete mark channel will be deleted directly.

1 Move the highlight to “DVR HDD Information” and press [OK] key. It will display “DVR HDD information” as below:

10.2 Disk Information

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10.3 DVR Configuration

Set up digital video recording

1. Turn ON/OFF timeshift

2. Set record type: TS/PS

1 Press [PAUSE] key to see time shift OSD as below: 2 You can press [Left/Right] to move the slide to left or right. Press [OK] key

to play the point where the slide is. 3 You also can press [Pause] /[fast back]/[slow /back] can realize these function. Then it will enter the mode which is playing the recorded program on HDD. (like the picture below) Then you can do pause, fast forward, fast back, slow forward, and slow back.

10.3.1 Timeshift

10.3.2 Record

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11.6 Audio

1 In full screen, press [AUDIO] key can open the “Audio” window on the screen. 2 You can modify the audio track by press [Channel Up / Channel Down] key and modify the audio mode by press [Volume Up / Volume Down] key.

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11. Hotkey

11.1 Power

1 Press [Power] Key can enter the Standby state 2 In Standby state, press [Power] Key again can call back the unit and go on play the previous channel

3 User can also disconnect the device’s main power to end the Standby state.

11.2 Channel Up/Channel Down

In full screen, press [CH+/CH-] to change channel.

11.3 Volume Up/Volume Down

In full screen, press [VOL+/VOL-] to adjust volume.

11.4 Number 0~9

In full screen, use number key and press [OK] on the Remote Control Unit to change channel.

11.5 TV/RADIO

In TV mode, pressing [TV/RADIO] key can switch to Radio mode. In Radio mode, press [TV/RADIO] key to switch to TV mode.

14/01

1. Press record key to start recording

2. Press record key again to set and adjust recoring duration time

3. Press [Stop] key first time to end the playing mode. Press [Stop] key second time to stop the recording

4. Press blue key to show the recorded files fastly,press OK to play the selected file.

Notes: Time Shifting/recording will only be available when USB/ HDD is connected to system and read/write speed is high enough to do that.

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11.7 Mute

1 Press [MUTE] key to mute the sound and the screen will show up mute OSD.

2 Press [MUTE] key again to restore sound.

11.8 Favorite

1 In full screen, press [FAV] key, it will display a window of “Favorite

Group” on the left of the screen, which you can watch like below.

3 Mode: Left/Right/Stereo/Mono

2 In the window of “Favorite”, you can move highlight by press [Channel Up/Channel Down] key and press [OK] key to select favorite group.

3 In the window of “FAV group X”, you can move highlight by press [Channel Up/Channel Down] key and press [OK] key to select favorite channels. Pressing [Page Up/Page Down] keys can implement the “Page up/Page down” function

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11.9 Recall

Press [RECALL] key will directly switch to the previous channel that you played before current channel.

Q: Why the screen displays “No Favorite Channel”, after pressing [Favorite] key?

A: It is because that you haven’t set any channels as “favorite channel”. Please refer to Favorite

11.10 EPG

1 The STB has an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) to help you navigate channels through all the possible viewing options. The EPG supplies information such as channel listings and starting and ending times for all available channels. Press [EPG] key to display EPG screen.

4 You also can press [Volume Up/Volume Down] keys to select different

“Favorite Group”. 5 Press [Exit] key to exit the current window. Frequently Asked Question

2 Press [OK] key in each item can see more detail information and press

[Red] key to cancel

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11.11 Subtitle

Press [SUBTITLE] key in full screen, you can select subtitle and teletext

subtitle language or switch subtitle off.

11.12 TEXT

4 Press [Green] key in EPG menu can open timer menu. User can save a timer as he want.

5 In EPG menu, press [Exit] to close EPG screen.

3 Press [Red] key in EPG menu can display “Time Bar” Menu. In “Time Bar” menu, you can press [Left/Right] to select “back/current time/last program or –0:30/next program or +0:30/-2:00/+2:00/last day /next day”. Press [Up/Down] key to channel change.

19/11/2004

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4 Press [Page Up/Down] key to page up and page down. 5 Press [Exit] key to exit the channel list.

11.14 Exit

Press [EXIT] key can exit the current menu to last menu or close the window.

11.16 Channel List

1 In full screen, press [OK] key or [CH.LIST] can enter “Channel List”. 2 Press [Left/Right] key to change favorite. 3 Press [Up/Down] key to move highlight and press [OK] key to play the

highlighted channel.

19/11

1 Press [TEXT] key in full screen, you can open teletext page on the channel which has teletext information.

2 If the channel has no teletext information, it will show “No Data” on the screen.

11.13 Menu

1 Press [SETUP] key can open the menu, exit the current menu to last menu or close the window.

11.15 Information

1 In full screen, press [INFO] key can open information screen, it will shows

program banner.

2 In the program banner, press [INFO] key again, the window shows the

parameters of current channel.

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11.17 Page Up/Page Down

1 In Channel list, press [Page+/Page-] key can page up and page down the channel list.

11.18 Record

1 Press [Record] key can record current program to USB disc. The default record duration is 2 hrs.

2 Press [Record] key again can input record duration.

11.19 PLAY

Press [PLAY] key can change to normal playback mode while other trick mode is enabled such as PAUSE, Forward or Reverse.

11.20 Pause

1 In playing mode, press [Pause] key, the picture will be paused, but the sound of the channel will still continues. 2 Press [PAUSE] key again, the screen’s picture will skip over to the current playing picture, and the sound of the channel will correspond playing. 3 In playing mode, press [Pause] key, the picture will be paused, but the sound of the channel will still continues. 4 Press [PAUSE] key again, the screen’s picture will skip over to the current playing picture, and the sound of the channel will correspond playing.

11.21 STOP

1 In the time-shift mode, press [STOP] key can stop time-shift play and comeback to life position. 2 When recording, press [STOP] key will list the recording programs. Press [STOP] again will stop recorder. 3 When playing recorded file from record manager, press [stop] key will stop playing file and comeback to record manager menu.

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