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WIDESCREEN
TV sets are available with screens of the standard (4:3) format and widescreen (16:9) format.
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 even some news bulletins
are widescreen. To help get the most from both TV set and programme when a widescreen film is watched on a standard
TV, or a standard broadcast is viewed on a widescreen set, the Freeview receiver includes the [WIDE] key.
So long as the receiver has been correctly set up for the TV set connected, a widescreen programme will always be
displayed correctly on a widescreen set, and a standard format programme will correctly fill the screen of a standard
format TV. With a widescreen TV set displaying a standard format programme, the [WIDE] key switches between
displaying the picture with black bars down the sides, and enlarging the picture so that it fills the whole width of the
screen but the top and bottom are cropped off.
With a standard format TV displaying a widescreen programme, the [WIDE] key switches between displaying the picture
with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, and filling the whole height of the screen but cropping the sides
off according to instructions broadcast with the programme (called pan and scan).
The effect of the [WIDE] key on the picture display is cancelled by pressing [WIDE] again. (Only for FreeView)
SUBTITLE
Subtitle key shows/hides subtitles of channel. When the subtitle key is pressed, subtitle ON/OFF message is displayed.
ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE (7- DAY - EPG)
In no menu mode, EPG Menu is reached by pressing GUIDE key, quit by pressing GUIDE key again. In EPG Menu
all channels are displayed. Current program is highlighted. Use [UP] or [DOWN] buttons to change channels.
Some, but not all, channels send information about the current and next events. Please note that event information is
updated automatically. If there is no event information data available in channels, only channel names with No
Information banner is displayed. If you highlight an event, short event description, extended event description, start and
finish times of event are displayed on the screen. In EPG Menu, you can easily see the extended help information by
pressing INFO key and by pressing this key again you can close this window.
