19
Multi room
19.1
About Multi room
With Multi Room you can watch a TV program that comes from
another TV in your home. The program is streamed from one
TV to the other. You can stream a program to a TV that has no
antenna connection of its own. You can also stream a recorded
program from a TV with a connected Hard Drive.
The TV that streams the program to the other TV, must be
switched on and must tune to the channel or play the recording.
Streaming a TV program with Multi Room will reduce the
picture resolution to 720p maximum. You cannot stream radio
channels. Some broadcasters protect their programs to prevent
this kind of streaming.
19.2
What you need
To stream and watch TV channels from another Philips TV, the
other TV needs to serve as a TV channel source. Both TVs must
be connected to your wireless home network.
For more information, press
Keywords
and look up
Wireless Network
.
If the other Philips TV — the source — has a model number
that ends with an eight or higher, e.g. (the screen size)
XXXxxx8
or (the screen size)
XXXxxx9
and it has the latest
software, you're all set.
On the other TV, read the Help chapter on
Software update
to
update its TV software.
If all conditions on both TVs are met, you can use Multi room.
19.3
Using Multi room
First time use
When you start Multi room for the first time, turn on both TVs.
Once this TV connects to the other TV, the other TV
automatically appears in the
Browse network
menu even when
it is in standby.
Stream a TV channel
With Multi room, you can watch the current TV channel or
open the channel list of the other TV. If you select a channel
from the list, the other TV will also switch to the channel you
selected. If the other TV has a connected Hard Disk Drive
(HDD) with recordings*, you can also watch these on this TV.
You cannot switch channels while the other TV is recording, in
Pause TV mode, or using Skype.
To watch a TV channel from the other TV . . .
1
- Make sure the other TV is in standby* or turned on.
2
- On this TV, press
SOURCES
, select
Browse
network
and press
OK
.
3
- If the TV is not yet connected to your home network, the
network installation will start automatically. If the TV is already
connected, go to step 4.
4
- In the
Network
menu, select the name of the other TV and
press
OK
. If you have several TVs in your home, you might want
to change the name of the other TV. You can do that on the TV
itself.
5
- Select what you want to watch from the other TV . . .
• to watch the current channel of the other TV, select
Current
channel
and press
OK
.
• to open the channel list of the other TV, select
Watch TV
and
press
(Right).
• to open the list of recordings* on the other TV, select
Watch
recordings
and press
(Right).
• you can switch channels with
and
. You cannot
switch channels when the other TV is recording, in Pause TV
mode, or using Skype.
* To switch on the other TV from standby or to watch its
recordings from a connected Hard Disk Drive , both TVs must
have a type number that ends with an eight or higher, e.g.
(screen size)
PxGxxx8
or (screen size)
PxGxxx8
.
TV name
To change the TV name . . .
Press
>
Setup
>
Network settings
>
TV network name
.
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