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Introduction

Philips offers software upgrade capability for your TV using USB portable memory.

After you have completed a software upgrade, your TV will typically perform

better.

What improvements are made depends on the upgrade software you are using as

well as the software your TV contained before the upgrade.

You can execute the software upgrade procedure yourself.

Be aware that the content of this document is addressing technical or software

skilled users.

Preparing a portable memory for software upgrade

For the procedure you will require:

• A personal computer with web browsing capability.

• An archive utility that supports the ZIP-format (e.g. WinZip for Windows or

StuffIt for Mac OS).

• A preferably empty USB memory stick.

Note: Only FAT/DOS-formatted portable memory is supported.

New software can be obtained from your dealer or can be downloaded from the

www.philips.com/support website:

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Go to

www.philips.com/support

using the web browser on your PC.

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Follow the procedure to find the information and the software related to your

TV.

Select the latest software upgrade file and download it to your PC.

Decompress the ZIP-file and copy the file “autorun.upg” to the root directory of

the USB portable memory.

Note: Only use software upgrades that can be found on the www.philips.com/support web

site.

Verifying the version of the TV software

Before starting the software upgrade procedure, it is advised to check what the

current TV software is.

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Select

Software Upgrade

in the Installation menu.

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Press the cursor right.

The Software Upgrade menu moves to the left panel.

Select

Current Software Info

to observe the version and the description of the

current software.

Annex 1 - Philips TV software upgrade with portable memory

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