Pixel Magic hd Mediabox, Owner'S Manual

Page 1: ...Owner s guide Owner s guide...

Page 2: ...wo blades with one wider than the other A grounding type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong The wide blade or the third prong is provided for your safety If the provided plug does not fit...

Page 3: ...behind 20 cm on both sides and 10 cm above the top panel of the unit to prevent fire and damage Digital signals generated by this unit may interfere with other equipment such as tuners receivers or TV...

Page 4: ...fident your new player will both enhance and become integral to your home entertainment system Please contact your HD MediaBox retailer immediately if any of the above items are missing Before startin...

Page 5: ...Case and Stand 14 2 2 HD MediaBox Front Panel 14 2 3 HD MediaBox Rear Panel 15 2 4 HD MediaBox Remote Control 16 3 Getting Started 19 3 1 Connecting Power 19 3 2 Fitting the Remote Control Batteries 1...

Page 6: ...2 Repeat 49 7 3 Zoom 49 7 4 Time Search and Jump 49 7 5 Image Adjustments 50 7 5 1 Brightness 51 7 5 2 Contrast 51 7 5 3 Saturation 51 7 5 4 Vertical Position 51 7 5 5 Aspect Ratio 51 7 5 6 Subtitle D...

Page 7: ...mpensated crystal oscillator to dramatically improve spaciousness clarity impact and purity providing the highest quality audio playback available in any network media player Digital optical coax and...

Page 8: ...ion is performed automatically all video will be rescaled to match your chosen Output Resolution see section 5 3 for how to set For SD material inverse telecine for film sources and motion adaptive de...

Page 9: ...any video system of higher resolution than standard definition SD NTSC PAL and current DVDs are Standard Definition HD television HDTV resolution usually contains either 1080 or 720 lines of video in...

Page 10: ...e interlaced as is DVD Obviously progressive scan is the higher quality of the 2 systems but also has larger file sizes However many modern digital display technologies such as Plasma LCD and DLP inhe...

Page 11: ...lications such as online steaming web downloads and television broadcasting WMV9 WMVHD VC 1 Windows Media Video WMV is a generic name for the set of proprietary streaming video technologies developed...

Page 12: ...Many file formats use similar file extensions and it is not necessarily an indication of what the file encoding format is HD MediaBox supports many types of file format but due to encoding differences...

Page 13: ...ounced jay peg is by far the most commonly used method of compression for photographic images Although a lossy format most digital cameras are able to save files at a compression level hard to detect...

Page 14: ...MediaBox Front Panel Power indicator The power status of HD MediaBox is shown by the color of the LED No light No mains power Red Standby Green Running Play Pause indicator This blue LED shows the pl...

Page 15: ...g to a display device that has an HDMI terminal this is the recommended option to use This allows direct transmission of the video information from HD MediaBox to the display without any digital to an...

Page 16: ...is displayed on the screen to indicate the current speed The Play Pause key must be pressed to stop rewinding When viewing a photo pressing this key will rotate the image 90 degrees counter clockwise...

Page 17: ...s key during playback will show the current resolution on the screen Pressing a NUMBER key within 5 seconds will change the output resolution as follows 1 Composite S video Component from 15pin VGA po...

Page 18: ...B In DVD Playing Mode Pressing this key once will select point A Pressing this key again will select point B DVD video will loop continuously from point A to point B ZOOM In Media and DVD Playing Mode...

Page 19: ...the power supply and a red LED on the front of HD MediaBox to confirm power Press the key on the Remote Control to turn HD MediaBox on 3 2 Fitting the Remote Control Batteries Turn the Remote Control...

Page 20: ...steps A B C step 1 Before you start make sure you have a a flat clear space to work on free of dust dirt and moisture b a Philips screwdriver included with HD MediaBox c the 4 HDD screws included with...

Page 21: ...efully slide the cage back into the case by lining up the plates and grooves as shown in the diagram step 13 Re insert the 3 screws into the rear panel of HD MediaBox The internal HDD is now ready for...

Page 22: ...an internally fitted HDD HD MediaBox can read file systems formatted in either FAT32 or NTFS NTFS is recommended as FAT32 systems are limited to files less than 4GB in size and High Definition video f...

Page 23: ...select New Partition to start the New Partition Wizard Press Next and select Primary Partition Press Next again In the Specify Partition Size section enter the maximum available size FAT32 partitions...

Page 24: ...rtition section select your preferred File system NTFS is recommended and press Next When completed detailed information will appear as shown below Click the Finish button to complete the Wizard and s...

Page 25: ...25 The Disk Management utility will now show the file system as Healthy and the internal HD MediaBox HDD is ready for use see section 4 3 1 step 10...

Page 26: ...rom HD MediaBox If your display device has an HDMI connection it is recommended that you use this method The HDMI connector can also carry embedded digital audio so if you intend to use your display s...

Page 27: ...on is made using the VGA connector and the supplied breakout cable Simply connect the included breakout cable to the HD MediaBox VGA connector and then use a standard Component cable to link the break...

Page 28: ...ended for your primary viewing connection 4 2 Audio Connections All Audio outputs including HDMI embedded digital audio are active simultaneously DIGITAL AUDIO If you want to use an external device to...

Page 29: ...nnel audio to provide an analog stereo output When the analog audio outputs are used the Digital to Analog Conversion is performed by the high quality DAC onboard HD MediaBox You may want to experimen...

Page 30: ...blue USB LED on the front panel of HD MediaBox will light to show the presence of a USB connection In Windows XP cancel any Autorun options and you will now see the following screen Choose Open folde...

Page 31: ...ing collection of videos photos and music by accessing shared files folders and drives over your Local Area Network LAN HD MediaBox uses the SMB protocol Server Message Block commonly used by Microsof...

Page 32: ...on the network and type a share name this is the name that HD MediaBox will see After pressing OK the shared folder icon will now have a hand under it as shown below If you are using Windows XP Profes...

Page 33: ...if necessary 4 3 4 Infra Red Distribution Instead of using the IR receiver on the front panel of HD MediaBox it may be convenient to use an Infra Red distribution system This will enable HD MediaBox t...

Page 34: ...tings to ensure you get the best possible video and audio output Make sure that your display device is connected and switched on After HD MediaBox has been switched on you will see the HD MediaBox log...

Page 35: ...use the keys to navigate the setup menus If you want to exit Setup and return to File Browsing Mode at any time simply press the key on your Remote Control again 5 2 Audio Setup After entering Setup M...

Page 36: ...ifier that can decode digital multi channel audio signals Bit stream This option streams the data directly from the media file unconverted ready for decoding by an external decoder receiver amplifier...

Page 37: ...VGA port to High Definition Component output YPbPr HD RGB Choosing this will set the VGA port to High Definition RGBHV output 5 3 2 HDMI This setting is applied if HDMI has been selected as your Acti...

Page 38: ...nually 480p This is a progressive output of 720x480 720p This is a progressive output of 1280x720 1080i This is an interlaced output of 1920x1080 1080p This is a progressive output of 1920x1080 All th...

Page 39: ...ee section 5 3 1 480p This is a progressive output of 720x480 720p This is a progressive output of 1280x720 1080i This is an interlaced output of 1920x1080 1080p This is a progressive output of 1920x1...

Page 40: ...aced output of 1920x1080 1080p This is a progressive output of 1920x1080 5 4 System Setup After entering Setup Mode press the twice on your Remote Control to highlight System 5 4 1 TV Refresh Rate Use...

Page 41: ...rresponds to the physical shape of your display The numbers refer to the Aspect Ratio of the display width height 4 3 Use this setting if your display is not widescreen 16 9 Use this if you have eithe...

Page 42: ...ted in File Browsing Mode 5 seconds Each photo is displayed for 5 seconds then moves to the next file 10 seconds Each photo is displayed for 10 seconds then moves to the next file In Media Playing Mod...

Page 43: ...ou need to set the IP address of HD MediaBox manually for network access Select Setup System IP Setting Static and you will be presented with the following pop up screen Use the number keys on the Rem...

Page 44: ...different sources where settings are likely to vary from file to file Profiles can be recalled during playback by pressing the key on the Remote Control 5 4 7 Software Default Selecting this will retu...

Page 45: ...l Area Network NAS Network Attached Storage drives External USB devices such as external hard discs or USB thumbdiscs 6 1 Familiarizing Yourself with File Browsing Mode 1 Current Folder path This area...

Page 46: ...ll be played depends on the Repeat Mode setting see section 7 2 Track repeats the current media file All repeats all the media files in the current folder Random repeats all the media files randomly i...

Page 47: ...Photo Music All see section 6 1 Previous Pressing this key goes back one page of the file list Next Pressing this key goes forward one page of the file list Play Pause Pressing this key will play all...

Page 48: ...the end or the last file reaches the end if Play All and Repeat Mode is defined HD MediaBox will return to File Browsing Mode 7 1 Info Screen While playing audio files the following info screen is dis...

Page 49: ...level to 0 off When HD MediaBox finishes playing the current file the zoom level resets to 0 off except during a slideshow of photos when the zoom level remains unchanged This feature is not active w...

Page 50: ...layback will cycle through the following sliders Brightness Contrast Saturation Vertical Position Aspect Ratio Subtitle Delay Use the keys or the keys to adjust the values of each slider These adjustm...

Page 51: ...at you use properly designed test material but if you don t have a test pattern for adjusting white level select a scene with lots of light areas for example a sunny sky with a little bit of cloud and...

Page 52: ...termine the order of subsequent files Autoplay When HD MediaBox is turned on it searches for a file named autoplay txt in the root of an external USB device if connected and then the internal HDD if f...

Page 53: ...times will increase the speed of the rewind An icon is displayed on the screen to indicate the current speed The Play Pause key must be pressed to stop rewinding When viewing a photo pressing this key...

Page 54: ...ve their own menu system and navigational structure Use the following keys to navigate your DVD files Up Down Left Right Pressing these keys will navigate the DVD file menu screens OK Pressing this ke...

Page 55: ...information about the file being played Title Total The DVD Title Number and the Total Number of Titles Chapter Total The DVD Chapter Number and the Total Number of Chapters Chapter Time The time pla...

Page 56: ...chapters randomly Cleared no repeat The current Repeat Mode is shown on the info screen 8 4 A B Repeat DVD video files can loop continuously from point A to point B This feature can be useful during c...

Page 57: ...ersion will be displayed in the bottom right hand corner of the screen If the firmware available for download is newer than the version installed in your HD MediaBox i e a higher version number contin...

Page 58: ...a confirmation message if MediaBox bin has been put in the correct location If the firmware was found select Upgrade You will see a pop up message asking you for confirmation Caution it is important...

Page 59: ...see a progress bar and percentage After HD MediaBox has completed upgrading the firmware it will automatically reboot Congratulations Your HD MediaBox is now ready for use Please refer to the new firm...

Page 60: ...olders or drives available on your network Check the network cable is plugged in on both HD MediaBox and your network hub A link light should show up on HD MediaBox if the cable is connected correctly...

Page 61: ...1 10 1 Changing Video Output Without an Image Problem No video output or unreadable video output Explanation By default HD MediaBox outputs 480p from the HDMI port if on startup your display can t rea...

Page 62: ...that only one version of the firmware exists on any connected drives Remove the power connector from HD MediaBox wait 5 seconds and re insert the power connector Make sure HD MediaBox is in standby mo...

Page 63: ...this product except to the extent prohibited by applicable law any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose on this product is limited in duration to the duration of thi...

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