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Everyday Operation (continued)
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WIDESCREEN
TV sets are available with screens of the standard 4:3 format and widescreen
16:9 format. When you first installed your GDB8 receiver, you should specify
the format of the connected TV (this can be altered latter if necessary: see
section 3 ADVANCED OPERATION - CONFIGURING YOUR RECEIVER).
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. GDB8 receiver includes the WIDE key for you to
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.
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, changing channel or turning the receiver to standby.
Subtitle
Subtitle key shows/ hides subtitles of channel. When the subtitle key is pressed,
subtitle ON/OFF message is displayed.
TV/ VCR key
Pressing TV/VCR key will manually toggleGDB8
between VCR viewing and TV viewing. In VCR
viewing, GDB8 will
. In TV viewing,
GDB8 displays digital TV progra
m . So,
loopthrough any input on the
VCR SCART to the TV SCART
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when
recording to VCR, please ensure that the GDB8 is
in TV mode.
