Digital Television Recorder Twin Terrestrial Tuner Model DTR0207 MENU REC PAU SE OK Instruction manual To obtain the best performance and ensure years of trouble-free use. please read this instruction manual completely.
INDEX SAFETY INFORMATION................................................................................................................................................................................. 2 FUNCTIONS .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 REMOTE CONTROL ....................................................................................
SAFETY INFORMATION Mains supply This equipment is designed to operate from a 220-240 Volt, 50Hz AC mains supply. Other power sources may damage it. Check that the rating label on the equipment says 230V AC ( ~ ) before you plug it in for the first time. Mains plug We have fitted this equipment with a standard mains plug. • If the mains lead gets damaged it must be replaced by a qualified service agent with an approved lead of the same type.
Safe use and care of your audio equipment We have designed and made this product to meet European safety standards, but as with any electrical equipment you must take care to get the longest working life from it and stay safe. Here are a few tips to help you do this. Read these instructions carefully before you try to use the equipment. Protect the mains lead. You must ensure the mains lead cannot be walked on, crushed, chafed, cut, and so on.
Important Safety warnings • To prevent electric shock, do not remove any cover. • If anything goes wrong, don't try and fix it yourself, get a qualified service agent to look at it. • Do not expose this equipment to dripping or splashing or place any objects filled with liquids, such as vases, on the equipment. • Never put a naked flame source on or near the equipment. • Small parts. Do not let young children play with the equipment.
FRONT AND BACK PANEL FRONT PANEL MENU REC OK PAUSE MENU ON/OFF PAUSE RECORD OK MENU MENU UP/ DOWN LEFT/RIGHT BACK PANEL DO NOT REMOVE AUX SCART ANTENNA 1 IN ANTENNA 2 OUT ANTENNA 1 OUT 35023095 LEFT ANTENNA 2 IN OPTICAL OUT AC IN RIGHT 1 2 3 4 RS 232 TV SCART 5 6 7 CVBS 8 9 10 11 1. AERIAL 2 IN : Loop through 2. AERIAL 2 OUT : To watch analogue channels on the TV 3. AERIAL 1 OUT : Loop through 4. AERIAL 1 IN : Aerial input 5. TV SCART : TV Scart connection 6.
CONNECTION DIAGRAMS NOTE: This set top box supports Free To View only. There is no provision for a CAM or Pay To View card.
REMOTE CONTROL & FUNCTIONS 18 19 20 LIB. 21 22 23 TIMERS GUIDE INFO OK TEXT 6 7 8 9 PR 25 26 27 VOL 10 11 ABC 29 30 31 32 4 5 BACK 24 28 1 2 3 DEF 1 2 3 GHI JKL MNO 4 5 6 PQRS TUV WXYZ 7 8 9 0 AUX PP MENU FAV. SUBT. WIDE PIP PIP- PIP+ SWAP 12 13 14 15 16 17 USING THE CONTROLS ON THE FRONT PANEL You can enter the main menu by pressing the menu button on the front of the unit.
BUTTON FUNCTION 1. Standby 2. 8 3. LIB. 4. Timers 5. 6. Info 7. Direction buttons / OK 8. Back / Exit 9. P+ / P10. Yellow 11. Blue 12. Number keys 13. P3P 14. Wide 15. Subt.
MENU INTERFACE FIRST TIME INSTALLATION When the box is switched on from stand-by mode and if there is no channel stored in the database, First Time Installation Menu window is displayed on the screen. In this window, set the TV type with “3/4” keys and press OK to continue. The next menu will ask you, if you want to begin with the automatic channel scan. MAIN MENU Main menu is accessed by pressing the MENU key on the remote control. Navigate with “5/6” keys among the menus and press OK to activate menus.
1.1. NAVIGATING CHANNEL LIST In the channel table “5/6” moves the selection to the previous or next .To exit menu and watch a specific channel highlight it using, “5/6” then press OK key while the "SELECT" option at the bottom of the screen is highlighted. If the selected channel is password protected then a pop up menu is displayed. If the correct code is entered, the selected channel can be watched. You can now select another channel in the list.
2. PROGRAMME GUIDE (7 DAYS EPG) Electronic Program Guide appears on the screen. It is able to get Information of the channel - programs weekly by means of 7DAY–EPG. All programs of channels are displayed. The current program is highlighted and there is brief information about the programs of the channel, such as: name, short/extended event description, start & end time. By pressing “3/4” keys continuously the time scale can be changed.
2.1.1. SELECT CHANNEL In EPG menu, using this option, you can switch to channel of the programme that is selected. 2.1.2. RECORD / DELETE TIMER In EPG menu, after you have selected a programme, press the OK button and select the “Record” option in the menu which appears and press the OK button again. So a recording is set to the selected programme. This option operates like the RECORD button.
2.1.6. SPLIT RECORD If you select a programme to be recorded, with this feature, if there is another part of the programme available, it will also be set automatically to be recorded. For example in the following picture you see the programme with a red underline, which following episode is also underlined. To do this, you have to press only the RECORD button once. The rest will be done automatically. Note: Split programme informations should be broadcasted by the broadcaster. 2.1.7.
NOTE: If there is still a conflict and you leave this menu by pressing the OK button, you will see this warning message: “There are still conflicts!”. In timer menu, you can see this conflict as the picture below. A warning triangle will appear nearby the programmes which cause a conflict. These programmes will be recorded partly or not at all. 3. TIMERS To display Timer window press either TIMERS key or activate it from main menu.
To add a Timer press YELLOW button on the remote and the, “Add Timer “ windows appears. Channel: “3/4” keys will navigate the user through the TV or Radio list. Date: By using either “3/4” or “0,1,2…,9” keys start date is entered. Start: By using either “3/4” or “0,1,2…,9” keys start time is entered. End: By using either “3/4” or “0,1,2…,9” keys end time is entered. Duration: Displays the duration of the recording. This is automatically worked out after the start and end times have been entered.
Red bar: indicates the used space of the recordings on the hard disk. Yellow bar: displays the approximate capacity required for the timers currently set. Green bar: shows the free space on the hard disk. 4.1. PLAY OPTIONS 4.1.1. PLAY FROM START Plays the recording from the beginning. 4.1.2. RESUME Begins with playing from the last stopped position. 4.1.3. PLAY FROM OFFSET Begins with playing, from the time which is entered. 4.1.4.
EDIT RECORDINGS While the “Edit recordings” option is highlighted, using the 3/4” buttons come to the list of recordings on the right of this menu. Select one of them, which should be archived and press the OK button. You will come to the following menu: Here, only the “Start recording at” and “ Stop recording at” options are active. If you have alrady separated recording, you could select any chapter to begin with the archiving and stop it.
DURATION: Set the duration of the appeareance of the “Edit recording title” menu main title on the screen. If you press the Menu button during playback, you will enter the “Chapter options and in this menu, you could set any point as a chapter. So, the user is be able to skip frames which should not be archived. The user could also start and stop the playback from any chapter he wants. To stop archiving, press the STOP button. During archiving, no other button will be function. 4.2.
5. SETUP The adjustments in this menu are: 5.1. RECORDINGS The internal hard drive can store up to 40 hours of digital TV broadcast (depending on the data rate of the recorded programme, which is set automatically by the broadcaster). Because the PVR has a Twin Tuner it is possible to record two events and watch two programmes at the same time. It is also possible to playback a recording previously made during an active recording. The PVR record and playback functions are very similar to those of a VCR.
Unplayed: If this option is set to "EXCLUDED" any unplayed recordings will NOT be deleted. If this option is set to "INCLUDED", unplayed recordings WILL be deleted. 5.1.3. FORMAT DISK On rare occasions the Hard Disk may malfunction, in most cases formatting the Hard Disk will restore normal operation however ALL the data stored on the Hard Disk will be lost. Press OK with the “Format Disk” option is highlighted. A menu appears, in which you will be asked for a pin number.
Recording Format • • HDD recording is done using the variable bit rate format (VBR) for more efficient recording. The following phenomena may occur. With the variable bit rate format, the remaining amount which can be recorded may increase or decrease relative to the display of the remaining amount of HDD space. When the display indicates that the remaining amount of HDD space is low, first delete unnecessary programmes, and then record with an extra margin in the amount of remaining space.
5.2. CONFIGURATION You can configure the settings of your set top box. Select Configuration from Setup menu and press OK to enter this menu. Press the BACK button on the remote to exit 5.2.1. TV TYPE Digital terrestrial television channels can broadcast programmes in a widescreen format which must be output differently to normal and widescreen TV sets. This function tells the receiver the screen format of the TV connected so that broadcasts are displayed correctly.
5.2.7. RECEIVER UPGRADE - OAD Over Air Download (OAD): To ensure that your STB always has the most up todate information. Please ensure that after use it is set to its standby mode. The STB automatically powers up at 3.00 A.M. each day and searches for any new information which may be broadcast and will download this to your receiver automatically. This operation will normally take approximately 30 minutes. If you have an important recording to make at 3.00 A.M.
5.3. LANGUAGE In this menu the user can adjust the preferred language. Language is changed by pressing OK key. Menu: shows the language of the system Preferred These settings will be used if available. Otherwise the current settings will be used. Ø Ø Audio: by pressing “3/4” keys change the audio language. Subtitle: alter the subtitle language with“3/4” keys. The chosen language will be seen in subtitles.
5.4.3. FIRST TIME INSTALLATION Use this option to load default settings, which had been set at the factory. To install factory settings, highlight ‘First Time Installation’ menu and press OK key, then you will be asked to confirm deleting all channels and settings. Selecting YES and pressing OK will delete the channel table. Selecting "NO" and pressing OK will cancel the operation. 6. MESSAGES When the box receives no signal (e.g.
Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Current event name next event name, and their start and end times. Program duration bar Program mode (TV or Radio) Channel number Name of the channel The second press of the info button brings up a box containing a brief description of the currently viewed programme. You can now use the > button to change the programme description to that of the next programme on the current channel.
SWAP Main window and PIP window change their places. TIME SHIFTING (PAUSE LIVE RECORDING) Pause Live Recording is a feature that enables you to pause a live broadcast if, say the phone rings you can go back to the same spot that you were at when you left. The live broadcasting can be stopped button to any time. Press PAUSE suspend the broadcasting. In the INFO banner the timeshift will comence. The duration of Timeshift can be adjusted from Recordings in the Configuration menu (See 5.1.RECORDINGS).
WIDE TV sets are available with screens of the standard (4:3) format and widescreen (16:9) format. When you first installed your receiver you specified the format of the connected TV (this can now be altered if necessary; see Configuration)Digital terrestrial television broadcasts are also made in both standard and widescreen formats. In particular, films and dramas tend to be broadcast in widescreen format to closer emulate the cinema experience, but some programmes such as news bulletins are 4:3.
8. SOFTWARE UPGRADE THROUGH RS232 The object of this manual is to give necessary information and details to the user to upgrade the software of the receiver through RS232. The list of the necessary equipment is as follows: Receiver and TV PC with “Hyper Terminal” function RS232 serial communication cable Steps to be followed by the user are given below: 1. Connect the serial communication cable between the RS232 port of the receiver and the serial communication port (COM1 or COM2) of the PC. 2.
9. NOTES POWER: The receiver should be plugged into a 220-240 V AC 50Hz supply only. LEADS: Ensure the power supply lead, and all other leads, are positioned so they are not likely to be walked on or pinched by things placed on or against them. Pay particular attention to the power lead, where it enters the mains plug and where it comes out of the receiver. Do not connect or adjust leads when the receiver is plugged in. TEMPERATURE AND MOISTURE: Do not leave or use the receiver in a hot, cold or humid area.
10. TROUBLE SHOOTING GUIDE Problem Possible Reason What to do The Led indicator does not glow Mains cable is not connected Check if the main cable is not plugged into the power socket. No picture or sound No signal or weak signal. Check the Aerial and scart connections The settings you have made in the menus have not been changed. The digital set-top box was unplugged without first going to standby.
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REMOTE CONTROL Operating Distance 10 m Max. Batteries 2x1.5V Micro (R-03/AAA) TUNERS 2 xRF In IEC-type, female (75Ohm) 2 x RF Out (loop through) IEC-type, male (75Ohm) HARD DISK Hard Disk capacity 80 GB FRONT PANEL Display VFD Remote Control Keys Standby ON/OFF, Menu, Record, Pause, OK, Menu Up/Down, Menu Left/Right.
12. IMPORTANT NOTICE: DIGITAL SWITCHOVER AND YOUR TV EQUIPMENT WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO ENJOY WATCHING TV DURING AND FOLLOWING DIGITAL SWITCHOVER Starting in 2008* and ending in 2012, television services in the UK will go completely digital, TV region by TV region. To continue using this digital TV equipment during and following digital switchover, you will need to “reset” your digital TV channels.
A. Information on disposal geared towards private users (households). Within the scope of European Union Caution: if you would like to throw away this device, please do not throw it into an ordinary bin! The used electrical and electronic devices need to be separately recycled and in conformance with the laws in force in terms of treatment, recovery and recycling of those devices.
