Contents 8 Additional Information Update software Care 1 Important 9 Specifi cations Safety and important notice Trademark notice 10 Troubleshooting 2 Your product Feature highlights 11 Glossary Product overview 3 Connect Place the product Connect video cables Connect speakers and subwoofer Connect radio antenna Connect audio cables/other devices Connect power cord...
1 Important This equipment should not be used for such purposes. Macrovision copyright Safety and important notice This product incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected Warning by method claims of certain U.S. patents and other intellectual property rights • Risk of overheating! Never install the product owned by Macrovision Corporation and in a confi...
Disposal of your old product and Trademark notice batteries Your product is designed and manufactured Manufactured under license from Dolby with high quality materials and components, Laboratories. Dolby, Pro Logic and the which can be recycled and reused. double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.
2 Your product Product overview Remote control Congratulations on your purchase, and welcome to Philips! To fully benefi t from the support that Philips offers, register your product at www.philips.com/welcome. Feature highlights Listen to rich uncompressed multi-channel surround sound This Home Theater System supports 5.1...
SETUP o SLEEP • Accesses or exits the setup menu. • Sets a delay after which the home theater system switches to standby. ( Navigation buttons ) • Navigates through the menus. p OK • Press left and right for fast backward •...
Main unit a b c d e f g h i ( Standby-On ) • Turns on the Home Theater System or switches to standby mode. b Disc compartment ( Open/Close ) • Opens or closes the disc compartment. ( Play/Pause ) •...
A comprehensive interactive guide to help you connect your product is available at www.connectivityguide.philips. com. Connect video cables Connect this Home Theater System to TV to view disc play.
Connect a composite video cable to Note the VIDEO jack on this Home Theater • You must connect this Home Theater System System and the VIDEO input jack on the directly to a TV. Note Option1: Connect to the SCART jack •...
Connect radio antenna Connect audio cables/other devices Route the audio from other devices to this Home Theater System to enjoy audio play with multi-channel surround capabilities. (75 Ω) Connect audio from TV ANTENNA Connect the FM antenna to the FM75 jack on this Home Theater System (for some models, this cable is already connected).
Connect audio from cable box/ Connect USB device recorder/game console AUX 2 AUDIO IN USB jack Connect the USB device to on this Home Theater System. Note AUDIO OUT • This Home Theater System can only play/view MP3, WMA, DivX (Ultra) or JPEG fi les that are stored on such devices.
Batteries contain chemical substances, they ways: should be disposed of properly. • Go to the lowest channel on your TV, then press the Channel Down button until you see the Philips Control a play source screen. SOURCE button repeatedly • Press Press RADIO , USB or DISC button to on the remote control of your TV.
Change speaker settings • The video-in channel is between the lowest and highest channels and may be called Ideally, the distance between listening position FRONT, A/V IN, VIDEO, HDMI etc. See the and all the speakers should be the same. If not, TV user manual on how to select the correct change the speaker settings based on their input on the TV.
• Repeat the above setting for other Select a play source speakers until all the speakers output level sounds equally balance. On the main unit • To exit the menu, press SETUP . To set the output delay time (center and rear speakers only) Select [Speakers Delay] in the menu, then press .
5 Play Play video Note Play a disc • For video disc, playback always resumes from the point where it was last stopped. To start Caution play from the beginning, press while the message is displayed. • Never place any objects other than discs into the disc compartment.
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Change video play Access DVD menu Play a title. Use the remote control to change the video play. Button Action AUDIO Selects an audio language or SYNC channel. SUBTITLE Selects a subtitle language for Press DISC to access disc main menu. video.
[Track Digest] Repeat play a specifi c section Plays the fi rst few seconds of each track in a During play, press REPEAT A-B at where disc. you want to set the starting point. Press REPEAT A-B again to set the [Disc Interval] ending point.
Play music Note • The options are different depending on the Control audio track play disc type. Play a track. Use the remote control to control the Play DivX® video track. DivX video is a digital media format that Button Action retains high quality despite a high rate of compression.
• To go to previous or next screen Note display, press • To select a photo, press the • For disc recorded in multiple sessions, only the fi rst session is played. Navigation buttons . • This product does not support MP3PRO audio •...
Play musical slideshow To stop play, press or remove the USB device. Play MP3/WMA music fi les and JPEG photo fi les simultaneously to create musical Note slideshow. The MP3/WMA and JPEG fi les • If the device does not fi t into the USB jack, must be stored on the same disc or USB connect it through a USB extension cable.
First time tuning Reinstall all the radio stations Press RADIO . When you access to radio mode for the fi rst time, follow the instruction to install the radio Press and hold PROGRAM for more than stations. 5 seconds. Press RADIO . All previously stored radio stations are »...
6 Adjust sound Select a preset sound Control the volume Press VOL +/- to increase or decrease the volume. Press SOUND repeatedly to select the • To mute, press sound effect that most suitable for the • To restore the volume, press again video or music you play.
7 Adjust settings Select an option, then press OK . Select a setting, then press OK . • To return to the previous menu, press BACK . You can customize various kinds of settings as SETUP . • To exit the menu, press you prefer.
[Sleep Timer] Note Switches to standby automatically after the preset time. • See the explanations of the above options in the following pages. • [15 mins] , [30 mins] , [45 mins] , [60 mins] – Selects the count down time before the Home Theater System switches to standby.
[TV Display] Note Selects one of the following display formats: • Applicable only to Dolby Digital encoded discs. 4:3 Pan Scan (PS) 4:3 Letter Box (LB) 16:9 (Wide Screen) Video setup [4:3 Pan Scan] – For 4:3 screen TV: full- •...
Preference Note • If the language you have set is not available on the disc, the disc uses its own default language. • For some discs, the subtitle/audio language can Note only be changed from the disc menu. • To select the languages that are not listed •...
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fi nd out if a newest software version is • If you forget the password, enter ‘136900’ available at the Philips website that you may before you set a new password. download and install on this Home Theater System.
OK . Write down the version number, then SETUP to exit the menu. press Go to www.philips.com/support to check the latest software version available for this Home Theater System. If the latest software version is higher than the software version of this Home Theater System, download it and store onto a CD-R or USB fl...
9 Specifications • Frequency response: FM 180 Hz~10 kHz / ±6dB • Stereo separation: FM 26 dB (1 kHz) • Stereo Threshold: FM 23.5 dB Note • Specifi cation and design are subject to change • Compatibility: USB without notice •...
No sound from TV program. • Connect an audio cable from the AUDIO If you contact Philips, you will be asked for the input on this Home Theater System to model and serial number of your product. The the AUDIO output on your TV. Then...
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Play DivX video fi les cannot be played. • Make sure that the DivX fi le is encoded according to the ‘Home Theater Profi le’ with the DivX encoder. • Make sure that the DivX video fi le is complete. The aspect ratio of the screen is not aligned with the TV display setting.
11 Glossary Group, which features small decrease in image quality in spite of its high compression ratio. Files are recognized by their fi le extension ‘.jpg’ or ‘.jpeg.’ Aspect ratio Aspect ratio refers to the length to height ratio of TV screens. The ratio of a standard A fi...