Philips G-CODE 7819901511 - Manual (Page 16)

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Getting Started
Setting TV Channels
To record the TV program you want to watch, it is
important that you set up a list of recognizable channels
for the DVD recorder.
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1. Press SETUP to display the Setup menu.
2. Select TV signal source through TV Tuner TV
signal.
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3. Select the country where you are currently situated
through TV Tuner Country.
4. Scan TV channels through TV Tuner Utilities 
Scan Channel.
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When the ‘Scan Channel’ function is activated, the
TV channels are scanned and stored in a specific or-
der. If your TV content provider changes the channel
listing, or if you are reinstalling this DVD recorder,
you may need to go through this process again.
5. To edit listed channels, see
Using Channel Editor (p.16)
Setting Aspect Ratio
Aspect ratio setting affects how video images are pre-
sented. Select the mode which suits your television.
1. Press SETUP to display the Setup menu.
2. Change the setting through Playback Aspect Ratio.
3. If you connect the DVD recorder to a widescreen(16:9)
TV, select ‘16:9 Widescreen’.
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4. If you connect the DVD recorder to a normal (4:3) TV,
select either ‘4:3 Letterbox’ or ‘4:3 PanScan’. How-
ever, when playing back a DVD-Video disc recorded
in wide picture format, the picture shown on screen is
different.
1. If you select ‘4:3 Letterbox’:
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The picture is shown with black bars at the top and bottom.
2. If you select ‘4:3 PanScan’ :
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The picture is zoomed to fill the screen vertically, and the left and
right sides of the image are chopped off. Please note that depend-
ing on the disc, the picture may be shown in the 4:3 Letterbox
mode even if you select the 4:3 PanScan mode.
Setting Parental Control
Some DVD-Video discs are encoded with a Parental
Management Level(PML) numbered from 0 to 8. You
can set the parental control level of this DVD recorder to
one of the numbers, then only a DVD-Video disc with the
PML equal to or lower than the one you set can be played
back by this DVD recorder.
1. Press SETUP to display the Setup menu.
2. Change the level of parental control through
PlaybackParental Lock.
3. If the level you select is different from the one you set
before, an input box asking for password will appear.
Enter 4-digit password by pressing number buttons(0-
9).
The default password is 0000.