Toshiba 42HL196 Flat Panel Television User Manual


 
HL196 (E/F) Web 213:276
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Contents
FCC Declaration of Conformity Compliance Statement
(Part 15): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Important notes about your LCD TV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Trademark Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapter 1: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Welcome to Toshiba. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features of your new TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Overview of steps for installing, setting up, and
using your new TV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
TV front and side panel controls and connections . . . . . . . . . 7
TV back panel connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2: Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Installing the remote control batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Remote control effective range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Learning about the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Remote Control functional key chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Using the remote control to operate your other devices. . . . 15
Programming the remote control to operate
your other devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Device code setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Searching and sampling the code of a device (8500). . . 16
Using the volume lock feature (8000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Operational feature reset (8900). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Multi-brand remote control device codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 3: Menu layout and navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Main menu layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Setup/Installation menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
THINC menu layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Navigating the menu system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 4: Setting up your TV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Selecting the menu language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Configuring the antenna input sources for the
ANT 1 and ANT 2 terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Programming channels into the TV’s channel memory . . . . 25
Programming channels automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Manually adding and deleting channels in the channel
memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting the time and date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Setting the HDMI
audio mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Viewing the CableCARD
menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Viewing the digital signal meter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Viewing the system status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 5: Using the TV’s features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Selecting the video input source to view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Labeling the video input sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Tuning channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Tuning channels using the Channel Browser
. . . . . . . 31
Tuning to the next programmed channel . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Tuning to a specific channel (programmed or
unprogrammed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Switching between two channels
using Channel Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Switching between two channels using SurfLock
. . . . 34
Selecting the picture size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Scrolling the TheaterWide
®
picture
(TheaterWide 2 and 3 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using the auto aspect ratio feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Selecting the cinema mode (480i signals only) . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the POP features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using the POP double-window feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Switching the speaker audio (left or right). . . . . . . . . . . 39
POP double-window aspect ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using the FREEZE feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Adjusting the picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Selecting the picture mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Adjusting the picture quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using the closed caption mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Closed Caption Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Digital closed captions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using the Closed Caption button on the
remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Adjusting the audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Muting the sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using the digital audio selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting stereo/SAP broadcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Adjusting the audio quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Using the StableSound
®
feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Selecting the optical audio output format . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using the Locks menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Entering the PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
If you cannot remember your PIN code. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Changing your PIN code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Blocking TV programs and movies
by rating (V-Chip). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Downloading an additional rating system
for blocking TV programs and movies . . . . . . . . . . 46
Blocking channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Unlocking programs temporarily. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using the input lock feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using the GameTimer
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Using the control panel lock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Setting the sleep timer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Setting the On/Off Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the PC setting feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Setting the PC Audio mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Displaying TV status information using RECALL . . . . . . . 52
Understanding the auto power off feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Understanding the last mode memory feature . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Chapter 6: Using the TV’s advanced features . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Using the advanced picture settings features . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using dynamic contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using CableClear
®
digital noise reduction . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using MPEG noise reduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Selecting the color temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Using the Game Mode feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using the advanced audio settings features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using the SRS WOW
surround sound feature . . . . . . 55
(continued)
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