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Ch21, Installing your video recorder, Initial installation – Philips VR205/05 User Manual

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Initial installation

a

Open up the battery compartment of your remote control
and place the batteries in it as shown in the picture.

b

Close the battery compartment.

c

Confirm the picture on the TV screen with the

OK

button

on the remote control.

d

If you have connected the aerial to the video recorder,
press the

OK

button. ’Autoinstall’ starts. This picture will

appear on the screen:

AUTOINSTALL

00

Wait until all TV channels have been found. This can take
several minutes.

e

When ’AUTOINSTALL’ is complete, ’

READY’ will appear

on the TV screen.

D If the autoinstall procedure is interrupted by the

standby button, press the MENU button to obtain the
welcome screen again.

f

To end, press the

MENU

button.

The initial installation is now complete.
Check the time and date. Please read ’Setting the time
and date’ in this chapter.

D If you have connected a decoder, you must install it

as described in the next section.

D If you have connected a satellite receiver, please

read the section ’satellite receiver’.

Allocating a decoder

Some TV stations will send coded TV channels, that you can
only watch when you use a decoder. You can connect such a
decoder (descrambler) to your video recorder. With the
following function, the connected decoder will automatically
be activated for the TV programme you want to watch.

a

Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme
number for the video recorder.

b

Choose the television channel on which you wish to use
the decoder with the

P q

or

P r

buttons on the video

recorder or the number buttons

0-9

on the remote

control.

c

Press the

MENU

button on the remote control. The main

menu will appear.

d

Select the line ’

MANUAL SEARCH’ with the

P q

or

P r

button.

e

Confirm with the

OK

button.

f

Press the

INDEX E

button. ’

DEC’ will appear in the

display.

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Confirm with the

OK

button.

h

To end, press the

OK

button again. Then, press the

TV/STANDBY m

button.

This channel is now assigned to the decoder.

Manual TV channel search

In certain cases the ’Automatic TV channel search’ may not be
able to find all of the TV channels (e.g. coded TV channels). In
that case, use this manual method to set the channels.

D When you search for TV channels manually, you can

choose between the indication for ’channel’ or
’frequency’. Please read the next paragraph
’Channel number or frequency display’.

a

Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme
number for the video recorder.

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INSTALLING YOUR VIDEO RECORDER

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