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3. STORING TV CHANNELS
For the video recorder to be able to record TV program-
mes, the TV channels must first be stored in the video
recorder.
You can store up to 99 TV channels.
Your video recorder has a receiver of its own. This
means it can be used independently of the TV set.
The “Easy Link” function
This function enables your video recorder to exchange
information with the TV set. For this reason, also take
note of the operating instructions that accompany your
TV set.
The TV set and video recorder
(
yx
scart socket) must be
connected using the
special scart cable supplied
and
your TV set
must have
the “Easy Link” function.
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Switch on the TV set.
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Pull out the mains plug and plug it back in again.
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The video recorder automatically loads all of the TV
channels stored in the TV set in the correct order.
This can also take a few minutes.
The following display appears on screen:
“EASY LINK loading from TV – please wait”,
“EASY LINK” appears in the video-recorder display.
Once all TV channels have been found, the video
recorder switches itself off.
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Select the desired display language. To do this,
press the button
S
on the video
recorder.
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The OSD page “LANGUAGE” appears on screen.
Select the desired display language.
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Confirm the setting by pressing the button
B
.
“EASY LINK” appears briefly in the video recorder
display.
It is still possible at this stage to assign special
functions to certain channel numbers. For further infor-
mation, see the section “Manual search”.
Autostore (Automatic channel search)
The video recorder makes a search for all TV channels. It
orders them in the following sequence in the memory:
BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV, CH 4, CH 5, SKY, others.
The clock and calender information is also set
during the Autostore process.
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Switch on the TV set and select the channel number
for the video recorder.
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Press the button
S
on the video
recorder.
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The automatic tuning begins and “Searching“
appears on the screen.
Wait until all the TV channels have been found.
This may take a few minutes.
Once all TV channels have been found, a message,
e.g. “Autostore ready 05 TV channels found”
appears on the screen. The automatic channel
search has then finished.
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Press the button
B
. The OSD page
“INSTALLATION MENU” appears on screen.
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Complete the setting by pressing the button
l
.
For details of how to change the sequence, please
read the section entitled “Assigning TV channels”.
At this stage, you can still determine special functions
for certain channel numbers. See the section “Manual
search“ for further information.
Note:
*When an Autostore is restarted, the
“INSTALLATION MENU” appears after Step
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.
Select “Autostore” and proceed with Step
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TV channels already stored will be retained. If the
message “FULL” appears briefly in the video recor-
der display, all of the video recorder channel storage
places have been occupied.