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Commercial TVs have the capability to support cloning internal TV data and programme information
with an external clone device called “TVLink-Loader”, in order to copy TV data accurately and quickly.
The clone internal functions use slightly different internal processes for the two types of commercial
TVs. However, the UI of cloning feature remains the same in both.
Regarding the demands over the current cloning feature for quicker cloning, better portability and etc,
we would like to announce the cloning process via USB port, named as USB Cloning.
USB cloning process is divided into 2 main processes. One is writing the previously saved TV data into
the TV, and one another is reading of current TV data into USB memory card. To avoid any confusion
due to the words, it is clearly specified as “Receive from USB” and “Send to USB” in the whole process.
The data cloned are the same data cloned by previous TVLink-Loader. Details are explained in the fol-
lowing:
1. TV data includes:
A. Installer Menu settings
B. Main menu settings (Audio, Picture etc)
2. Analog / Digital Channel information includes:
A. Channel numbers
B. Channel label
C. Channel attributes including channel type, skipping status and etc.
The user needs a USB memory card with FAT formatted to make successive cloning via USB port. A
USB memory card size more than 128 Mega Bytes and less than 4 Giga Bytes is recommended.
USB Cloning Procedure
(1) Overview USB Cloning Procedure
(2) Data To Be Cloned
(3) Requirements for USB
NOTE
Currently, support the preceding USB file system for FAT file format only. Other file formats including
NTFS is not currently supported. Microsoft Windows officially supports FAT for the USB memory
card.
