Topfield TF 5200 PVRc User manual

TOPFIELD

TF5200PVRc

User Guide

Digital Cable Receiver

Personal Video Recorder

CONAX Embedded

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Contents

Contents iii

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Introduction............................. 1

1.2 Controlling the digital receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.2.1 The front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.2.2 The remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.3 What is common interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2 Installation 8

2.1 Packingcontents .......................... 8

2.2 Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.3 Rear panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.4 Connecting the digital receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.5 Inserting batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3 Preference Settings 15

3.1 Languagesettings.......................... 15

3.2 Video and audio settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.2.1 Televsion standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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3.2.2 Colormodel......................... 17

3.2.3 Video cassette recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.2.4 Television aspect ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.2.5 Soundmode ........................ 20

3.2.6 RFoutput.......................... 20

3.3 Localtimesetting.......................... 21

3.4 Parentalcontrol........................... 22

3.5 Adjusting on-screen display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.6 Enabling the time shift function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

4 Service Search 25

4.1 Searching broadcasting services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

4.2 Resetting to factory settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

5 Daily Usage 28

5.1 Browsingservices.......................... 28

5.2 Viewing program information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

5.3 Viewing an electronic program guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

5.4 Selecting an audio track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

5.5 Selecting a subtitle track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

5.6 Viewingateletext.......................... 32

5.7 Selecting a multifeed service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.8 Watching by time shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.9 Watching by picture in picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

6 Listing Services 36

7 Recording and Playing Back 39

7.1 Recording a program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

7.1.1 Immediate recording by the remote control . . . . . . 40

7.1.2 Recording by the recording menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

7.1.3 Making a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

7.1.4 Recording by electronic program guide . . . . . . . . . 45

7.1.5 Recording when using time shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

7.1.6 To record a pay service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

7.2 Filelist ................................ 46

7.3 Playing back a recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

7.3.1 To play back in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

7.3.2 To play back in fast motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

7.3.3 To play back recordings in sequence . . . . . . . . . . . 51

7.3.4 To make a bookmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

7.3.5 To play back a recording repeatedly . . . . . . . . . . . 52

7.3.6 To play back a scrambled recording . . . . . . . . . . . 52

7.4 Editing a recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

7.4.1 To erase a block from a recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

7.4.2 To store a block from a recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

7.5 PlayingaMP3............................ 55

7.6 Formatting hard disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8 Topﬁeld Application Program 57

9 Firmware Update and Data Transfer 59

9.1 Updating the ﬁrmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

9.2 Transferring the receiver data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.3 Transferring recording ﬁles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Index 64

Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 Introduction

The TF 5200 PVRc digital receiver is fully compliant with the

international Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) standard, and

can receive digital broadcastings.

Unlike analog broadcastings, digital broadcastings are not all

assigned to their own frequencies; 1instead, several television

and radio broadcastings are transmitted through a single trans-

ponder on a single wideband carrier.

NOTE A transponder is in fact a wireless device, which re-

ceives and transmits radio signals at a prescribed fre-

quency range. You may regard a transponder as a

channel. One channel has one broadcasting in ana-

log broadcast; on the other hand, one transponder has

several broadcastings in digital broadcast. So the word

service is used instead of channel to indicate a broad-

casting in this document.

To help you with the choice and setting for broadcasting ser-

vices, a selection of television and radio services have already

2 Introduction

been programmed for you. So all broadcasting services that

have gone on air are available to you. You can ﬁnd the latest

transponder information from various broadcasters on tele-

text.

The TF 5200 PVRc digital receiver has features as follows:

•The digtial receiver is able to memorize up to 2000 tele-

vision and radio services.

•Electronic Program Guide (EPG) provides an overview

of program schedules for next few hours.

•You can edit the service list and make your own favorite

service list.

•You can view the information of a current television or

radio program.

•You can update the ﬁrmware of the digital receiver to

the latest, which will be provided by Topﬁeld.

•The digital receiver features a digital video recorder with

two tuners, with which you can record your choice of

broadcasting services independently of ones you are cur-

rently watching.

•The large storage capacity of the built-in hard disk al-

lows you to record up to 40 hours of material—in case

of 80 gigabytes—in excellent picture and sound quality.

•Time shift function is a special technical feature. You

can pause the program you are watching and resume it

again at a later time. You can quickly ﬁnd whatever part

of the current program by reverse or forward search.

•During a recording in progress, you can select a different

program from the archive and watch it.

1.2 Controlling the digital receiver 3

1.2 Controlling the digital receiver

You can control the digital receiver with the remote control

and the front panel buttons.

NOTE When the digital receiver is off but plugged to a wall

outlet, we say that it is in standby mode; on the other

hand, when it is on, it is in operation mode. You should

keep the digital receiver plugged to a wall outlet so as

it can run timer events.

1.2.1 The front panel

TV/STB

REMOTE

STANDBY

TV/STB lamp lights up while your video recorder operates

instead of the digital receiver. For more descriptions,

refer to § 3.2.3.

REMOTE lamp lights up whenever you press a button of

the remote control.

STANDBY lamp lights up while the digital receiver is in standby

mode.

Status display displays a current time in standby mode, and

displays a current status of the digital receiver in op-

eration mode.

STANDBY button toggles the digital receiver between oper-

ation mode and standby mode.

MENU button displays the menu, or escapes to a higher level

menu out of a submenu.

4 Introduction

CHANNEL

buttons switch to another service, and move

the highlight bar vertically in a menu.

VOLUME

buttons change the volume, and select an

option in a menu.

OK button displays the service list, and selects an entry in a

menu or list.

1.2.2 The remote control

button toggles the digital re-

ceiver between operation mode

and standby mode.

button mutes the television

or audio appliance.

¤

UHF button displays the RF set-

ting menu. For more descrip-

tions, refer to § 3.2.6.

button toggles operation be-

tween the digital receiver and

your video recorder. For more

descriptions, refer to § 3.2.3.

button sets a sleep timer. The

digital receiver is turned off to

standby mode when a speciﬁed

duration is elapsed.

Numeral buttons are used to

specify a service to watch or a pa-

rameter such as timer.

button makes a return to the

previous service.

button displays the informa-

tion about the program on the air.

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