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Using RF bypass
You can use RF Bypass to watch the regular (analog) channels that are included in the cable service.
It makes these channels “bypass” your set-top and pass directly to the TV and/or VCR.
To use RF Bypass:
• Your set-top must be installed with the correct connections from the rear panel to the TV or
VCR (see the note, right); and
• The RF Bypass feature must be switched to “On” in the Setup menu (see page 21).
For you to start using RF Bypass, your set-top must be turned on. However, once set, RF Bypass will
work even if you turn your set-top off.
When RF Bypass is on:
(the word BYPASS lights up on the front panel of your set-top) you can
use the TV’s remote control to tune to any of the available regular (analog) channels and watch
that channel on your TV (the path is the RF cable). You can, at the same time, use the path via the
Left/Right audio and S-video connectors to record on your VCR the digital channel that your set-top
is tuned to (see page 15). This means that, when the bypass is on, you can watch a regular (analog)
channel on your TV and, at the same time, record a
digital
channel on your VCR. (If you are recording
to the hard disk, you can record two different programs to it, while watching an analog channel on
the bypass.)
When RF Bypass is off:
you see on your TV the channel that your set-top is tuned to. This is the same
channel that your VCR receives. So, when RF Bypass is off, you can record on your VCR only the
program that you are watching on your TV (but you can still record a different one to the hard disk).
OPERATING YOUR SET-TOP (cont.)
NOTES
If you are not sure whether your
set-top has been set up to allow
RF Bypass, check your installation.
If there is a cable (RF cable) going
from the TO TV connector on
your set-top’s rear panel to your
TV (or to your VCR and TV, as
shown by the dashed line on page
13) then RF Bypass is correctly
set up.
You must also tune your TV
(and VCR) to your set-top’s VHF
output channel (3 or 4).
