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
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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
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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
OK
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
a
,
c
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
b
,
d
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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