DreamGEAR PVR-X10 manuale d’uso

PVR-X10 Personal V ideo Recorder[...]

SAFET Y INSTRUCTIONS About this manual Please observe the follo wing safety instructions c a re f u ll y be f o r e p u t ti n g t h e un i t i n t o op e ra - tion. T ake note of the warnings on the unit and in this manual. Alwa ys keep the instruction manual near at ha nd. If yo u sell or pass on the pr oduct, make sure you include this manual to[...]

Y our PVR-X10 has passed inspection and t estin g before leaving the fact or y, if handled correctly it is unlikely to become faulty . Ref er all servicing to our Service Centre or to a qua lified workshop. After unpacking Please check the follo wing items hav e been included with deliver y: Receiv er unit Remot e control This manual Recording &[...]

Contents SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 1 Contents 3 Recording & Playback of your PVR-X10 4 Connecting the receiver 5 Optional devices 6 Operating the receiver 7 Basic Settings 8 General operation of the receiver 9 Operation front panel buttons 10 Channel selection 11 Channel list 12 EPG - Electronic program guide 13 OSD Teletext 14 Timer 15 Selection of [...]

Recording & Pla yback of your PVR-X10 Hard disk Functions The hard disk record or playback func tions are controlled from the PVR menu. Press the PVR key to enter the PVR menu. Press the EXIT key to return to the normal receiver operation. When the PVR menu is active a picture in the upper left corner of the screen shows all functions that are [...]

Connecting the receiver The follo wing connections must be made befo re y ou can use the receiver unit to watch digital TV. On the rear of the receiver y ou will find the following ma rkings. Please follo w these steps f or the correct setup of the receiver unit: VIDEO, AUD I O L/ R Connect your T V AV Input to the Video & Audio L/R connect ors[...]

Optional devices SPDIF For the best possible sound repr oduction – Digital audio output. Con- nect your am plifier with an S/PDIF IN socket using this connection. Use a shielded S/PDIF cable for be st results (not included). T V For best possible video repr oducti on, S Video quality is available via SCART adaptor (not included). T o se lect S Vi[...]

Operating the receiver Operating the receiv er is done using the supplied remot e control. Na vigation within the on screen menu (OSD) is carried out using the buttons shown belo w: P+ / P– Moves the selection in the menus up- and down. – / + In lists: pages up- and down In input fields: changes between the entry options OK Open, submit or edit[...]

Basic Settings After switching on your PVR-X10 f or the f irst ti me, or af ter using the factory defaults func- tion you will be asked to choose y our OSD language and your geographical location, the PVR will also offer you the choice to perform a channel search, which tak es a few min- utes, when all channels are scanned th e first received chann[...]

General operation of the receiver Y ou can choose the following remot e control functions in normal T V viewing mode: P+ / P– Change to previous or ne xt channel in the channel list TV / RADIO Change between TV and radio mode – / + Volume do wn/up Mute on/off OK Display the status panel or use the q uick help function SW AP Change to the last c[...]

Operation front panel butt ons In case the remote contr ol is not at hand an emergency use of the receiver is possible via the front panel buttons. The butt ons hav e the following functions: ▲ / ▼ Change to the next or pre vious channel in the channel list. If both but- tons are pressed at the same time the receiver will change between TV and [...]

Channel selection The receiver keeps an int ernal channel list in its memor y. This list contains all channels that were f ound during channel scan. There are several methods of choosing a T V channel: P+ / P– Change to the previous or ne xt channel in the channel list TV RADIO Change to TV or radio mode SW AP Change back and forth between actual[...]

Channel list The channel list can be shown in a number of wa ys: LIST Shows the whole channel list. Y ou can navigate using the P+/P– but- tons to an y channel. Press OK to activate the channel. Y ou can change between the TV and radio list using the T V-/RADIO buttons. EXIT Y ou can use the EXIT button to call up the channel list if the info rma[...]

EPG - Electronic program guide DVB conforming transmitte rs of fer info rmatio n on their programs such as the title and description of the current and follo wing progra m. A dditionally , transmitters also have the option to offer a program guide of up to 64 da ys in advance. Not all transmitters offer the full 64 days of program inf ormation. Ple[...]

OSD T elete xt If you ha ve selected a channel that contains tele text data the programme menu contains an entr y “T eletext” that can be used to open the OSD T elete xt. 0 – 9 Enter page number (between 1 00 and 899) P+ / P– Single step through the pages Pages that are not in the page cache will be skipped. – / + In normal mode: V olume [...]

Timer The built in timer can administrate up to 12 recordings. Thereby you can choose a fixed recording date or da y of the week f or each timer command. The recordings are pr ogrammed in the menu point “Timer” in the main menu. All dates t o the 12 entries can be seen in the overview . The individual entries can be processed using the OK butto[...]

Selection of audio-/ radio channel T o select an alternative audio channel t o a multilingual program, press the MENU button whilst the program is running. As long as the br oadcaster suppor ts the transmission of this data a heading “A udio Chan- nel” will appear in the window . Press OK and select the desired audio channel. The name of the la[...]

Games T wo games hav e been included with the recei v er . These games can be found under “Extras” in the main menu. The object of the game “Blocks” is to fill up the screen with the falling blocks so as to lea ve as little empty , unused space as possible. As a row becomes full it disappears and the rows above it mo ve down. P oints are ac[...]

Configuration of the receiver Basic settings The basic settings are modified in the sub me nu “Edit Settings” of the main menu, which can be reached by pressing the MENU butt on twice. T o change an indivi dual option of the setti ngs menus use the – / + buttons. As long as these options stem from a values list, this list can be opened by pre[...]

Editing the channel list The channel list of the receiver can be sor ted according t o your wishes. Call up the channel list editor thr ough the menu heading “Channel List” / “Sor t Channels” in the main menu. After making any desired changes leav e the channel list with the EXIT button. Confirm in the display ed “Sav e Changes” window [...]

F unctions, which wor k with a destination entry, will request selection of the destination position. This is done by moving to the entry in the list and conf irming with OK. As long as a function has not been complet ed pressing the EXIT button re verses the previ- ous steps. 20 PVR-X10[...]

Automat ic s ea rch The automatic search function of the receiv er searches f or new T V and radio channels. Coded/Scrambled TV channels are sorted out and not displa yed. TV channels, which al- ready exist in the list, will be remov ed automatically . Performing an aut omatic search 1. Open up the search function in “Channel List” / “Channel[...]

The follo wing options are available for the ne wly found channels (right hand list): Activat e View channel Copy above Cop y a selected new channel int o the channel list. This entr y and the follo wing ones will be pushed down t o make room f or the new one. Copy over Copies the new select ed channel onto an e xisting entr y in the channel list. [...]

Signal strength indicat or/ Specifications The signal strength indicator can be viewed fr om the sub menu “Extras” of the main menu. An estimation of the signal st rength will be made accor ding to the status of the indicator bar . The C/N value gives the same value, measured in dB. Note: The signal strength is no t only dependen t on your ante[...]

Use of the RX/TX port The serial por t of the receiver offers you the possibility of connecting to a PC for software/ firmware updat es. Such updates ma y be downloaded fr om our websit e at www .wintal.com.au. Updates and firmw are revisions will be announce d on the Wintal w eb site as they become ava i l ab l e . For connection t o a PC a serial[...]