Philips DVDR77/17 manual

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    Quick install guide Connecting your DVD Recorder to the TV/Initial installation Warning ! Until the initial installation has been completed, the buttons on the front will not function. 1 Remove the antenna cable jack from your TV. Insert it into the ANTENNA IN jack at the back of the DVD recorder. 2 Insert one end of the supplied antenna cable into[...]

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    Making a recording 1 Press MONITOR to display the selected input signal on the screen. 2 Select the program number from which the recording is to be carried out using CHANNEL q or CHANNEL r . Recording via the external jacks Select either the front jack (' CAM1 ', ' CAM2 ') or the jack (' EXT1 ', ' EXT2 ',&ap[...]

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    The 'Digital Photo Manager' Using the 'Digital Photo Manager', you can view and modify JPEG pictures from a memory card, Picture CD, DVD, or a CD ROM. You can store them on a DVD+RW/+R or on the memory card. In addition, you can store the pictures in a so-called album in a specific order, yet without changing the order in which [...]

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    7 The data will be read and then an overview of the stored pictures will be displayed. 8 You can select a picture for viewing or editing with D , C , B , A . Fast browsing trough the pictures With O or N you can switch one page forward or backward. You can also select a picture with the number buttons 0..9 on the remote. Tip 9 Press OK to select th[...]