User manual PHILIPS 20GX8550

[. . . ] Your product is designed and manufactured with high quality materials and components, which can be recycled and reused. When this crossed-out wheeled bin symbol is attached to a product it means the product is covered by the European Directive 2002/96/EC. please inform yourself about the local separate collection system for electrical and electronic products. Please act according to your local rules and do not dispose of your old products with your normal househols waste. [. . . ] You can also access these settings with key Q. Store: this is used to store the sound settings. You can adjust: é Contrast +: automatic adjustment of the picture contrast which permanently sets the darkest part of the picture to black. The pictures you receive may be transmitted in 16:9 format (wide screen) or 4:3 format (conventional screen). 4:3 pictures sometimes have a black band at the top and bottom of the screen (letterbox format). This function allows you to optimise the picture display on screen. If your television is equipped with a 4:3 screen. Press the key (or <>) to select the different modes: 4:3 The picture is reproduced in 4:3 format. expand 4:3 The picture is enlarged vertically. This mode is used to cancell the black bands when watching a programme in letterbox format. Compress 16:9 The picture is compressed vertically into 16:9 format. This key is used to stop or resume acquisition sub-page acquisition. The active page is displayed on the left and the (depending on version) following page is displayed on the right. Enlarge a This allows you to display the top or bottom part of the page page and then return to normal size. Favourite Instead of the standard coloured areas displayed at the bottom of pages the screen, you can store 4 favourite pages on the first 40 channels which can then be accessed using the coloured keys (red, green, yellow, blue). Once set, these favourite pages will become the default every time teletext is selected. " Press the coloured key of your choice for 3 seconds. ` Repeat the operation with the other coloured keys. ( Now when you consult teletext, your favourite pages will appear in colour at the bottom of the screen. to temporarily retrieve the standard items , press MENU. To clear everything, and return the standard items as the default, press Ë for 5 seconds. NOTE ­ When using the LCD TV as a PC monitor, slight diagonal interference lines may be observed when it is operated under electromagnetic interference environment but will not affect the performance of this product. [. . . ] 6) is used to select these different standards. This is not to be confused with PAL or SECAM colour coding. Pal is used in most countries in Europe, Secam in France, Russia and most African countries. The United States and Japan use a different system called NTSC. [. . . ]