Owner's Manual

Chapter 6: Using the TV’s features
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Clearing channels from the History List:
Reconfiguring the ANT/CABLE input will clear the History
List.
Note: See page 29 for details on configuring the antenna
input.
Once 32 channels or inputs are stored in the History List, the
oldest item will be removed from the list when a new channel
or input is tuned.
Turning off the TV will clear the History List.
Setting the Channel Tuning Mode
This feature allows you to choose how tuning will be handled
for analog and digital channels when the TV is in Antenna
mode.
Note: To use this feature, the Input Configuration must be
set to Antenna ( page 29).
The channel tuning mode has three options.
Mode Description
Standard
Both analog and digital channels can be
tuned normally
Auto
(default)
Digital channels will have priority when
manually entering a channel number using
the Channel Number (0-9) on the remote
control, analog channels can still be tuned
by / , if available
Digital Only digital channels can be tuned
Note: Digital mode will be most useful after analog channels
are shut down by the government in 2009.
To set the Channel Tuning Mode:
From the Setup menu, highlight Installation and press .
A new set of Installation menu icons will appear.
Open the
Terrestrial menu, highlight Channel Tuning
Mode, and then press u and p q to select your desired
mode.
Note:
The Channel Add/Delete & Channels Block windows as well
as the Channel Browser ANT/CABLE list will be updated
automatically when you change the mode. Also, the History
List will be cleared, but the Favorites List will be saved.
Even if the Channel Tuning Mode is set to Digital, analog
channel 3 will still be the default channel to prevent the
initial case where no digital channels have been found in
prior channel scans. (Channel Add/Delete will not have
anything listed until a scan is done.)
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Tuning to the next programmed channel
To tune to the next programmed channel:
Press or on the remote control or TV control panel.
Note: This feature will not work unless you program channels
into the TV’s channel memory ( page 30).
Tuning to a specific channel (programmed
or unprogrammed)
Tuning analog channels:
Press the Channel Number (0–9) on the remote control. For
example, to select channel 125, press 1, 2, 5, then .
Tuning digital channels:
Press the Channel Number (0–9) on the remote control,
followed by the dash ( ) button and then the sub-channel
number. For example, to select digital channel 125-1, press 1,
2, 5, –, 1, then .
Note: If a digital channel is not programmed—either through
the automatic channel scan ( page 30) or the channel
add/delete function ( page 30)—you will have to tune the
RF channel using the Channel Number and dash ( ) on the
remote control.
Switching between two channels using
Channel Return
The Channel Return feature allows you to switch between two
channels without entering an actual channel number each time.
Select the first channel you want to view.
Select a second channel using the Channel Number
buttons (and the dash (
) button if selecting a digital
channel).
Press
on the remote control. The previous channel
will display. Each time you press , the TV will switch
back and forth between the last two channels that were
tuned.
Note: If you press from a non-antenna input, the TV
will return to the last-viewed input.
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