Topfield TF 5400 PVR Combo User manual

TOPFIELD

TF 5400 PVR Combo

User Guide

Digital Satellite & Terrestrial Receiver

Personal Video Recorder

iii

Contents

1 Introduction 1

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

1.2 Controlling the digital receiver .................. 2

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

1.2.2 The remote control ..................... 5

1.3 What is common interface? .................... 8

2 Setup 9

2.1 Unpacking .............................. 9

2.2 Safety precautions ......................... 9

2.3 Rear panel connections ....................... 11

2.4 Connecting up your digital receiver ............... 13

2.4.1 Connecting to the antenna ................ 13

2.4.2 Connecting to your television .............. 13

2.4.3 Connecting to your video cassette recorder ....... 16

2.5 Inserting batteries in the remote control ............. 16

3 Preference Settings 18

3.1 Language settings .......................... 18

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3.2 Video and audio settings ...................... 19

3.2.1 Television standard .................... 20

3.2.2 Color model ......................... 20

3.2.3 Video cassette recorder .................. 21

3.2.4 Television aspect ratio ................... 21

3.2.5 Sound mode ........................ 22

3.2.6 RF output .......................... 23

3.3 Local time setting .......................... 23

3.4 Parental control ........................... 25

3.5 Adjusting on-screen display .................... 27

3.6 To use the time shift feature .................... 27

3.7 Setting for MediaHighway EPG .................. 27

4 Service Search 29

4.1 Searching satellite broadcasting services ............. 29

4.1.1 Conﬁguring LNB settings ................. 29

4.1.2 Conﬁguring DiSEqC 1.2 settings ............. 31

4.1.3 Conﬁguring USALS settings ............... 33

4.1.4 Searching services ..................... 34

4.2 Searching terrestrial broadcasting services ............ 37

4.3 Copying services .......................... 38

4.4 Resetting to factory settings .................... 38

5 Daily Usage 39

5.1 Watching television ......................... 39

5.1.1 Watching favorite services ................ 41

5.1.2 Viewing program information .............. 42

5.1.3 Selecting audio track .................... 43

5.1.4 Selecting subtitle track ................... 43

5.1.5 Viewing teletext ...................... 44

5.2 Viewing electronic program guide ................ 44

5.3 Watching multifeed program ................... 45

5.4 Watching by time shift ....................... 45

5.5 Watching by picture in picture .................. 47

6 Listing Services 49

6.1 Editing the service list ....................... 49

6.2 Editing the favorite list ....................... 51

6.3 Transferring receiver data ..................... 53

7 Recording and Playing 55

7.1 Recording a program ........................ 56

7.1.1 Immediate recording by the remote control ...... 56

7.1.2 Recording by the recording menu ............ 58

7.1.3 Making a timer recording ................. 59

7.1.4 Recording by electronic program guide ......... 61

7.1.5 Recording when using time shift ............. 61

7.1.6 To record a pay service .................. 62

7.2 File list ................................ 63

7.3 Playing back a recording ...................... 65

7.3.1 To play back in slow motion ............... 66

7.3.2 To play back in fast motion ................ 66

7.3.3 To play back recordings in sequence ........... 67

7.3.4 To make a bookmark .................... 67

7.3.5 To play back a recording repeatedly ........... 68

7.3.6 To play back a scrambled recording ........... 69

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7.4 Editing a recording ......................... 69

7.4.1 To erase a block from a recording ............ 69

7.4.2 To store a block from a recording ............. 70

7.5 Playing a MP3 ............................ 71

7.6 Formatting hard disk ........................ 72

7.7 Transferring recording ﬁles .................... 72

8 Topﬁeld Application Program 74

9 Firmware Update 76

9.1 From a broadcaster ......................... 77

9.2 From your computer via USB port ................ 77

9.3 From your computer via RS-232 port ............... 78

9.4 From another digital receiver via RS-232 port .......... 79

Index 81

Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 Introduction

The TF 5400 PVR Combo digital receiver is fully compliant with

the international Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) standard,

and can receive digital broadcasts. For its operation, you need

an antenna, which must be installed appropriately.

NOTE

In general we equate a channel with a frequency. However,

unlike analog broadcasts, digital broadcasts are not all as-

signed to their own frequencies; instead, multiple television

and radio broadcasts are transmitted through a single fre-

quency. The frequency in digital broadcasting is usually called

transponder. To reduce confusion, the word service is prefer-

ably used than channel as the term indicating one television

or radio broadcast in this document.

The TF 5400 PVR Combo digital receiver has features as fol-

lows:

• It supports DiSEqC 1.0, DiSEqC 1.1, DiSEqC 1.2 and US-

ALS.

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• It is able to memorize up to 5000 television and radio

services.

• Electronic program guide provides an overview of pro-

gram schedules for next few hours.

• You can edit the service list.

• You can make your favorite list.

• You can view the information of the current television or

radio program.

• You can update the ﬁrmware of the digital receiver to

the latest, which will be provided by the manufacturer.

• 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 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 backward or forward search.

1.2 Controlling the digital receiver

You can control the digital receiver with the remote control

and the buttons on the front panel.

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

1.2 Controlling the digital receiver 3

receiver plugged to a wall outlet so as it can run timer events

at any time.

1.2.1 The front panel

The front panel of the digital receiver has buttons to operate

the digital receiver, and lamps and a display to indicate its

status. Their usage is as follows:

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 the current time in standby mode,

and displays the current status of the digital receiver

in operation mode.

STANDBY button switches the digital receiver between standby

mode and operation mode.

MENU button displays the main menu. It is also used to

return to the previous menu from a submenu.

CHANNEL

buttons move to the next or previous ser-

vice. They are also used to navigate in menus and in-

teractive screens.

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VOLUME

buttons increase and decrease the volume.

They are also used to change the options for a menu

item.

OK button displays the service list, It is also used to select

menu items.

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