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    LCD TV Str eamium User Manual 23iF9946 23iF9946_12_StDFU_ENG.p65 9/1/04, 6:06 PM 1[...]

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    2 Important Information ......................................................................................... 3 Chapter 1 – Installing the softwar e ...................................................................... 4 Chapter 2 – Connecting the Streamium LCD TV .............................................. 5-11 2.1 If you do not ha ve [...]

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    3 • Please install and connect the pr oduct in the order as described in this manual only . • Please read this guide car efully befor e using the Streamium LCD TV and keep it f or future r eference. • The most recent do wnloads and information on this product will be a vailable thr ough our w ebsite www .philips.com/streamium. •B r oadband [...]

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    4 Start by installing Philips Media Manag er This software enables the transf er of video, music and photo files in your computer to y our Streamium LCD TV . 1 Place the Philips Media Manag er CD in your CD or D VD’ s drive and install the Philips Media Manager softwar e. The CD starts automatically . If it does not, double- click ‘My Computer?[...]

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    5 Choose the scenario that best fits your situation for installing the Str eamium LCD TV . Option A: If you do not ha v e a wireless computer network: In this configuration you only ha ve a computer and a Streamium LCD TV . •Y ou will install a Wireless Network Adapter on your computer . • Go to chapter 2.1 on page 6-7. OR Option B : If y ou al[...]

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    6 2.1 If y ou do not ha ve a wireless computer network Option A In this configuration y ou only hav e a computer and the Str eamium LCD TV . •Y ou will install a Wireless Network Adapter on y our computer . At the end, you will be able to send music, movies, and pictures from y our computer to your Streamium LCD TV . 1 Install a Wireless Network [...]

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    7 6 Explore the Home Link menu on the TV screen. Use the na vigation buttons (Cursor Left/Right/Up/ Down) and the OK button on the r emote control to explore the m ultimedia content you made a vailable on your PC. F or example: press the Cursor Right button on the remote control several times until you ha ve selected a music track, a photo or a mov[...]

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    8 2.2 If y ou already ha ve a wir eless computer network Option B In this configuration you alr eady hav e a wir eless computer network, and the Streamium LCD TV . •Y ou will check the settings of your existing wireless computer network. •Y ou will connect the Streamium TV and adapt its settings to match y our network. At the end, y ou will be [...]

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    9 5 Select your wir eless network name, and input the encryption key y ou found in step 1. A) If ask ed, select the wireless netw ork name from the list of wireless netw ork names (SSID) presented to you on the TV screen. Use the na vigation buttons ( Cursor Up / Down ) on the remote contr ol to select the correct netw ork name and press OK button [...]

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    10 2.3 If y ou want to mak e a wired connection Option C In this configuration your Str eamium LCD TV and computer already ha ve a free ethernet connector (or a wired netw ork with a ethernet connector). •Y ou will be connecting an Ethernet network cable between the Str eamium LCD TV and your computer or wired netw ork. •Y ou will be able to se[...]

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    11 2 Mak e sure the Philips Media Mana ger you installed in chapter 1 is activ e. Double-click the Media Manager icon in the lower right corner of your scr een or click Start / Programs / Philips Media Manager . Leav e the Media Manager window open to be sure it is active. 3 Switch on the Streamium LCD TV . Press the SELECT button r epeatedly until[...]

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    12 If you ha ve a br oadband Internet connection (minimum 256 kbps), y ou can stream Internet radio stations and movie trailers liv e from the Internet to the Str eamium LCD TV . Broadband internet also pro vides the on-line upgrades for the Streamium LCD TV . The Internet entertainment offering is constantly being impro ved and new functions ar e [...]

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    13 3.2 Pressing the INTERNET button f or the first time 1 First, check whether HOME LINK functions corr ectly . Start the Philips Media Manager program on your computer , and pr ess the HOME LINK button on the r emote contr ol. See if the text ‘Philips Media Manager’ appears on your tele vision screen. 2 Then, check whether the PC on which you [...]

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    14 Y ou will need to go to your PC to perf orm Steps 2 to 4 2 From y our PC, double-click the website address that is in the email. 3 Fill in the requested data to create an account. 4 After registration y ou can access the INTERNET ser vice of the Streamium LCD TV and you can manage y our user account at ‘my .philips.com’ by opening this w ebs[...]

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    15 This Streamium LCD TV either connects to your wir eless home network (HOME/PC LINK) and pla ys music, photos, and movies stored on y our PC(s), or to the Internet (INTERNET) for accessing various Internet Entertainment services (e .g. internet radio, movie trailers…). Note: Install the Philips Media Manager softwar e, the Wireless Network Adap[...]

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    16 4.1 INTERNET With INTERNET you can mak e the Str eamium TV play media files (music, photos, movies…) and start other services from the Internet. 1P r ess the INTERNET button* on the remote control to open the Na vigation View on your TV screen. * When the Streamium LCD TV connects to the Internet for the first time , and after resetting, the S[...]

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    17 This is the basic wa y of na vigating through all the menus. 2 The a vailable media sources and services will appear on the TV screen. 3 The little yellow ar rows around the highlighted bar indicate which arro w buttons y ou can press to na vigate through the men us on the television screen. 5 If colour coded user options a ppear on the TV scree[...]

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    18 En vironmental information All redundant packing material has been omitted.W e have done our utmost to mak e the packaging easily separable into three mono materials: cardboard (bo x), polystyrene foam (buff er) and polyeth ylene (bags, pr otective foam sheet). Y our set consists of materials that can be recycled if disassembled b y a specialise[...]

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    19 Chapter 6 – Pr oblem solving 6.1 Audio/video pr oblems Check the Support section on www .philips.com/streamium for the latest inf ormation on problem solving. Problem Pow er light does not light up and/or the Streamium LCD TV cannot be s witched on. No display on the TV screen. No sound from the speaker . Intermittent video pla y . No photo, m[...]

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    20 6.2 PC / Network pr oblems Check the Support section on www .philips.com/streamium for the latest inf ormation on problem solving. Problem The Installation CD will not start. The software will not install. No wireless connection or intermittent drop-out of the wireless connection. Pressing the PC LINK button produces an empty content screen on y[...]

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    21 P ossib le cause • Check whether the Streamium TV can connect to your PC. • No broadband Internet connection available. • Not enough broadband Internet bandwidth a vailable . • Network host (PC) or wireless base station is s witched off. • Internet access not working. • Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) is not working. • Internet o[...]

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    22 Chapter 7 – Remote Contr ol & “ ( § ç ‘ é ! è 0 1 2 3 7.1 Functions of Remote contr ol buttons for Streamium functions. Note : For functions of the TV , explanation is done in another section. & Po w er/standby button – Switches Streamium LCD TV off (to standby). – Switch on the Streamium LCD TV with the INTERNET or HOME LI[...]

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    23 7.2 Using the remote contr ol Do the following steps to ensur e that your r emote control is ready for operation. 1 Pull out the plastic insulation sheet from the battery to enable the remote contr ol to function. 2 Pull out battery cover and check whether the lithium battery is placed correctly . The words on the battery should face y ou when y[...]

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    24 Y ou can enter numbers and text into the Streamium LCD TV in sev eral wa ys: Na vigation k eys On the TV screen, arrows ar e displa yed above and belo w the character being entered or edited and that character is shown in a differ ent colour . 1 Press Cursor Up or Down button to br owse thr ough the characters a vailable. Note: there are two set[...]

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    25 9.1 Na vigation view The view displa y ed on the TV screen while navigating the media menus, is called the ‘Navigation View’. It works as follows: 1P ath This shows you the men u choices you ha ve made in getting to the cur rent scr een. A useful tool for Smart Na vigation (see below). 2 Colour buttons bar The colour button bar shows y ou th[...]

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    26 9.2 Pla y View The view displa y ed on the TV screen while pla ying a movie, picture or m usic, is called the ‘Play View’. It gives different information and user actions for each type of media. 9.2.1 F or mo vies It works as f ollows: T rack info. This shows y ou information on the track curr ently pla ying. Colour buttons bar . The colour [...]

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    27 1 Running the Philips Media Manager pr ogram on more than one computer at the same time. – If more than one computer has access to the wir eless network, you can also run Media Manager on more than one computer at the same time to make the media files on that computer a vailable to the Streamium LCD TV . A) Install the Philips Media Manager in[...]

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    28 In the Options menu y ou can view and edit the settings of the Str eamium LCD TV . On the remote contr ol, pr ess the MENU button to enter the Options menu. Select a menu item by pressing Cursor Left, Right. Up or Down buttons and select by pressing OK or Cursor Right button. Close the Options menu by pressing the MENU button again on the r emot[...]

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    29 11.2 Network men u The Network menu giv es you access to netw ork and wireless settings. See below for an ov erview . Note: If you just want to see what the settings ar e , open the Network/ Wireless Info items and not the Conf ig items . Network T ype Select whether you want to connect to a Wireless network or to a Wired network. Network Config[...]

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    30 11.2.1 Static IP settings If you select Static IP as y our Network Mode in Netw ork > Network Config > Netw ork Mode, you will need to pr ovide the Streamium LCD TV with the following man ual settings for its wireless netw ork: IP Address This is the fixed IP Address y ou want the Streamium LCD TV to hav e in your netw ork. Preferabl y , c[...]

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    31 Ethernet WIRED WIRELESS At each computer , you will need a netw ork adapter or Netw ork Interface Card (NIC) to be able to connect the computer to the network cable. Examples are: Already built-in PCI expansion card USB/Ethernet cable Ethernet notebook adapter At each computer , you will need to install a WiFi wir eless network adapter to be abl[...]

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    32 In a netw ork, the computers need to be able to connect to each other ph ysically . Therefore, another impor tant network pr operty is how the computers connect to each other , either dir ectly or thr ough a central device. ONE-ON-ONE WIRED NETW ORK also known as: Direct connection network (max. two PCs) Note: Use a crossover Ethernet cable to c[...]

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    33 What are wir eless network connections? Y our wireless network ada pter uses a wireless pr otocol (called IEEE 802.11b/g or WiFi) to communicate with the Streamium LCD TV by means of radio transmissions. WiFi radio wa ves tra vel outwards fr om the antenna in all dir ections, and can transmit through walls and floors. WiFi can theoretically r ea[...]

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    34 The DOs and DON’Ts of securing your wireless netw ork DO Enable the highest WEP ke y lev el that your hardwar e provides f or . Upgrade your har dware, if possible. If you do not pr otect your wireless netw ork, all data from your PC might be accessible by , for example, your neighbours or passers-b y . Use a wireless base station or r outer w[...]

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    35 A WEP encr yption ke y protects y our wireless netw ork against intrusion by encrypting the data sent through y our network. Its setting must be the same for all PCs and devices in y our wir eless network. (Default: Disabled.) The WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) implemented in this Streamium LCD TV is based on the RC4 encryption algorithm. Please[...]

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    36 a) Setting the encryption key f or the Str eamium LCD TV: 1 Press the MENU button on the r emote control, then 2 select ‘Network’, and 3 select ‘Encryption Config’. 4 Enable WEP Encr yption, and enter a 5, 10, 13 or 26 character passwor d (see above) and press the OK button. > The Streamium LCD TV will try to reconnect to the wireless[...]

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    37 Before y ou press the INTERNET button f or the first time , you need to make sur e that the Streamium LCD TV has Internet access. Either dir ectly through a wir eless base station, or indirectl y through a PC with Internet access and router/gate wa y software (e.g. ICS from the Windows OS) installed and running. If you connect (either wir ed or [...]

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    38 Enabling Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Though ICS works similarl y for all operating systems, each v ersion of Microsoft®Windows ® activates Internet Connection Sharing in its own wa y . Please see below for the operating system you ar e using. In case of trouble, check Windows Help and the Micr osoft w ebsite for inf ormation on Internet [...]

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    39 Enabling Internet Connection Sharing for Windows 98SE While installing, you ma y be ask ed for the Windows Installation CD . Please, keep it at hand. 1 Before y ou begin, check if y ou hav e a w orking Internet connection and if y our home network is working pr operly (if y ou hav e one). • Check the Internet connection by opening a w eb page [...]

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    40 Enabling Internet Connection Sharing for Windo ws Me 1 Before y ou begin, check if y ou hav e a working Internet connection and if your home netw ork is working properly (if y ou ha ve one). • Check the Internet connection by opening a web page with y our bro wser . 2 On the desktop, double-click ‘My Network Places’ and then double-click ?[...]

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    41 Go to www .philips.com/str eamium for the latest information on pr oblem solving. Mo vies will not pla y: The bit rate might be too high. Convert the mo vie to a lower bit rate. Check your br oadband Internet speed At www .2wire.com/meter/bm.html y ou can check your br oadband Internet speed. This should be more than 240 kbps for the Str eamium [...]

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    42 Ad-Hoc Network Access Point (Infrastructure netw ork) Broadband Chroma Dela y Codec DHCP Ethernet Fire wall Gamma Gatewa y Home Link/PC Link Horizontal position (Advanced TV Setting) Infrastructure Network MA C Address NA T (Network Address Tr anslation) Peer -to-peer Philips Media Manager Pro xy address SSID STP Streaming Streamium uPnP Ve r ti[...]

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    3139 125 33581 MODEL : PROD . NO : 23iF9946_12_StDFU_ENG.p65 8/31/04, 4:30 PM 44[...]

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    1 Intr oduction Ta b le of Contents Thank you f or purchasing this tele vision set. This handbook has been designed to help you install and operate y our TV set. We would strongly r ecommend that you r ead it thor oughly . We hope our technolog y meets entirely with y our satisfaction. Installation Presentation of the LCD T elevision . . . . . . . [...]

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    2 - PROGRAM + - VOLUME + & é Pr esentation of the LCD T ele vision Remote contr ol VGA In Audio In Audio Out EXT 1 FM ANT "' ( § è ! : & T ele vision ke ys: • . : to switch the TV on or off. • V OLUME - + (- ” +): to adjust sound level. • PR OGRAM - + (- P +): to select programmes. • MENU: to access or close menus, si[...]

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    3 Remote contr ol k e ys T eletext ke y (p. 8) Select peripherals (p.10) Press se veral times to select the requir ed EXT connector . Sound mode Used to for ce programmes in Stereo and Nicam Stereo to Mono or , for bilingual pr ogrammes, to choose between Dual I or Dual II . The Mono indication is red when in forced position. Unused key . TV / PC /[...]

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    4 Quick installation When you turn on the TV set for the first time, a menu is displa y ed on screen. This menu prompts y ou to select the country and language for the menus: If the menu is not displayed, press and hold down the ” - and ” + k eys on the TV set for 5 seconds to display the menu. & Use the cursor UP/DO WN on the remote contro[...]

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    5 Manual stor e Other settings in the Install menu This menu is used to stor e the programmes one at a time. & Press the h key . é With the cursor , select the Install menu then Manual stor e : “ System: select Europe (automatic detection*) or W estern Europe (BG standar d), Eastern Europe (DK standar d), United Kingdom (I standard) or F ran[...]

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    6 Pictur e settings Sound adjustments & Press h then cursor RIGHT . The Picture menu is displa y ed: é Use the cursor UP/DO WN to select a setting and the cursor LEFT/ RIGHT to adjust. “ Once the adjustments ha ve been made, select Store and pr ess cursor RIGHT to store them. Press ∂ to exit. Description of the adjustments: • Brightness:[...]

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    7 16:9 F ormats The pictures y ou receiv e ma y be transmitted in 16:9 format (wide scr een) or 4:3 format (conv entional screen). 4:3 pictures sometimes ha v e a black band at the top and bottom of the screen (letterbox format). This function allows y ou to optimise the picture displa y on scr een. Press the ë ke y (or cursor LEFT/ RIGHT ) to sel[...]

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    8 T eletext Press : Y ou will obtain : T eletext is an information system broadcast b y certain channels which can be consulted like a newspaper . It also offers access to subtitles for view ers with hearing problems or who ar e not familiar with the transmission language (cable networks, satellite channels, etc .). P ¤ Y P REC INTERNET REPEAT SHU[...]

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    9 Using the radio Using in PC monitor mode Choosing radio mode Press the  ke y on the remote contr ol to switch the TV to radio mode . Pr ess the W ke y to return to TV mode . In radio mode the number and name of the station (if a vailable), its frequency and the sound mode ar e indicated on the screen. Selecting pro grammes Use the ñ / ô or - [...]

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    10 Connecting peripheral equipment Carry out the connections shown opposite , using a good quality euroconnector cable. If your video recorder does not have a euroconnector socket, the only connection possible is via the aerial cable. Y ou will therefore need to tune in your video recorder's test signal and assign it programme number 0 (refer [...]

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    11 Audio in VGA In Audio In Audio Out VGA In Audio In PC Mak e the connections as shown opposite. With the µ ke y, select AV/S-VHS . For a mono set, connect the sound signal to the AUDIO L (or AUDIO R) input. The sound automatically comes out of the left and r ight speakers of the set. Headphones When headphones are connected, the sound on the TV [...]

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    12 Glossar y RGB signals : These are the thr ee video signals, Red Green Blue, which make up the pictur e. Using these signals impro ves pictur e quality . S-VHS Signals: These are 2 separate Y/C video signals from the S-VHS and Hi-8 r ecording standards. The luminance signals Y (black and white) and chrominance signals C (colour) ar e recor ded se[...]

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    CANAL ................FREQ (MHz) E2 ........................48.25 E3 ........................55.25 E4 ........................62.25 E5 ......................175.25 E6 ......................182.25 E7 ......................189.25 E8 ......................196.25 E9 ......................203.25 E10 ....................210.25 E11 ....................217[...]

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