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6.2 Editing the favourite list

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To delete a group, put the highlight bar on the group entry you
want and press the

button; then a message box appears

asking you for confirmation. If you select

Yes

, it will be deleted.

You can add a favourite service to a group by taking the follow-

ing steps:

1. Put the highlight bar on a desired group entry in the

group list and press the

 

OK

button to select it. The high-

light bar then moves to the services list.

2. To add a service to the selected group, put the highlight

bar on a desired service entry and press the

 

OK

button.

The selected service entry gets added to the favourite list.

Repeat this step to add more entries.

3. Press the

button and the highlight bar get moved to

the favourite list. You can delete a favourite entry with
the

 

OK

button.

4. To select another group, press the

button again. By

pressing the

button, the highlight bar gets moved to

each column.

To add radio services, press the

button; then radio service

entries get listed in the services list. To recall the television
services list after adding radio services, press the

button

again.

With your favourite services list, you can select your favourite

services more easily. Refer to §

5.2.2

for detailed description.

Summary of Contents for TF 5010 PVR

Page 1: ...TOPFIELD TF 5010 PVR Masterpiece User Guide Digital Satellite Receiver Personal Video Recorder...

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Page 3: ...Setup 9 2 1 Unpacking 9 2 2 Safety precautions 9 2 3 Rear panel connections 11 2 4 Connecting up your digital receiver 12 2 4 1 Connecting the antenna 13 2 4 2 Connecting to your television 14 2 4 3 C...

Page 4: ...n screen display 28 3 6 To turn on the time shift feature 28 3 7 To use MediaHighway programme guide 28 4 Service Search 30 4 1 Searching broadcasting services 30 4 1 1 Configuring LNB settings 30 4 1...

Page 5: ...ceiver data 54 6 5 Editing channel data on your computer 55 6 5 1 Editing satellite and transponder list 57 6 5 2 Editing television and radio services list 59 6 5 3 Editing favourite list 60 7 Record...

Page 6: ...ly 82 7 3 6 To play back recordings in sequence 83 7 3 7 To play back a scrambled recording 84 7 4 Editing a recording 84 7 5 Copying a recording 85 7 6 MP3 playback 85 7 7 Transferring recording file...

Page 7: ...ana logue broadcasts however digital broadcasts are not all as signed to their own frequencies instead multiple television broadcasts are transmitted through a single frequency The fre quency in digit...

Page 8: ...s of television in case of 250 gigabytes in excellent picture and sound quality Time shift is a special technical feature available on the TF 5010 PVR Masterpiece You can pause the programme you are w...

Page 9: ...at they mean STANDBY button switches the digital receiver between standby mode and operation mode CHANNEL c a buttons switch to previous or next service They are also used to navigate in menus and int...

Page 10: ...device connected to the VCR SCART socket See 3 2 3 for more details 5 is used to set a sleep timer 6 Numeric buttons are used to enter a service number for service change or to specify values for menu...

Page 11: ...minify or hide the sub screen See 5 6 for information about picture in picture 21 changes the position of sub screen counterclockwise It is also used to jump back to beginnng of recording during a pla...

Page 12: ...sion or playback of a recorded programme 33 is used to start recording 34 is used to stop playback to stop recording or to jump back to live television from time shifted television 35 is used to displ...

Page 13: ...crambling system Common Interface CI is the slot on a digitial receiver into which a conditional access module may be insterted The front of the digital receiver has two common interfaces To watch a p...

Page 14: ...Introduction To view the information about the module and subscription card inserted into the digital re ceiver select the Information Common Interface menu You should see a screen like the left figur...

Page 15: ...atteries for the remote control AAA 1 5 V One SCART to component cable One S Video cable A copy of this user guide NOTE Accessories may vary according to your local area 2 2 Safety precautions Please...

Page 16: ...eceiver When placed in a cabinet make sure there is a minimum space of 10 centimetres around it For the physical specification of the digital receiver refer to Table 2 2 Protect the power cord from be...

Page 17: ...ite broadcasting signal input socket for the first tuner 2 IF 1 OUT Satellite broadcasting signal output socket through the first tuner 3 LNB 2 IN Satellite broadcasting signal input socket for the se...

Page 18: ...omposite video CVBS output AUDIO Left right audio output S VIDEO Super video S Video output TV CVBS S Video RGB YUV video output Left right audio output VCR CVBS video output Left right audio output C...

Page 19: ...ector If you have two antennas without DiSEqC switch then you have to connect a cable from the other antenna directly to the LNB 2 IN connector rather than using the loop cable If you have another dig...

Page 20: ...ecording Likewise if you have another digital receiver linked from the IF 2 OUT connector you can only use it limitedly See 4 1 for more details 2 4 2 Connecting to your television Between all the fol...

Page 21: ...ct with a standard SCART cable you do not have to make audio connections because the SCART connector can output stereo audio But if you use a conversion cable such as SCART to Component you have to ma...

Page 22: ...the cable into the S PIDF socket on the digital receiver and the other end into the matching socket on your audio system To use the RF connector If your television does not have any video and audio in...

Page 23: ...nsure that your television set is turned on so that you will be able to see the display from the digital receiver 2 5 1 Inserting batteries in the remote control To insert the batteries open the batte...

Page 24: ...ote control If the picture is good you can skip to 4 1 to search for the available television and radio services Otherwise you may need to temporarily connect the composite video connector VIDEO to yo...

Page 25: ...title track should be output Select the System Setting Lan guage Setting menu You should see a screen like the left figure Menu language The digital receiver supports many menu languages Dutch English...

Page 26: ...ny available language no subtitle will be displayed Apart from this setting you can select a subtitle track with the button See 5 2 5 for detailed description Audio language Set the 1st Audio Language...

Page 27: ...1 for television standard of your local area If you have a PAL television you have to set the TV Type option to PAL In that case if you switch to a service of the NTSC standard the digital receiver wi...

Page 28: ...RGB colour model provides the best video quality with little difference from the YUV colour model but the CVBS colour model does the least So RGB would be most desirable for this option 3 2 3 Video ca...

Page 29: ...be reduced to fit to the width of the normal screen Otherwise to watch them in the shape like the right figure set it to Center extract Wide screen pictures then will be cut out on the left and right...

Page 30: ...rica United Kingdom PAL K Czech Republic Hungary Poland NTSC M Bahamas Belgium Bolivia Chile Ecuador Fiji Guam Jamaica Mexico Panama Peru United States Venezuela Set the RF Channel option to a channel...

Page 31: ...t Petersburg GMT 3 30 Tehran GMT 4 00 Abu Dhabi Muscat Baku Tbilisi GMT 4 30 Kabul GMT 5 00 Ekaterinburg Islamabad Karachi Tashkent GMT 5 30 Bombay Calcutta Madras New Delhi GMT 6 00 Almaty Dhaka Colo...

Page 32: ...the numeric buttons The time format is day month year 24 hour minute If daylight saving time is observed in your state at the moment set the Daylight Saving Time option to On NOTE Daylight saving tim...

Page 33: ...on your censorship setting will not take effect If anyone is trying to watch a programme that is of or above the censorship setting the person has to enter the personal identification number to overri...

Page 34: ...can raise or lower the position of the informa tion box Select the System Setting menu and set the Info Box Position option as you desire Its available range is from 10 to 3 lines The more high you s...

Page 35: ...e If you want to use this feature select the System Setting Me diaHighway EPG menu You should see a screen like the left figure Set the MediaHighway EPG option to On to activate this feature then the...

Page 36: ...na settings according to your antenna system in the following order 1 Configure LNB settings Refer to 4 1 1 2 Set the position of your desired satellites if you have a motorized antenna You can contro...

Page 37: ...a LNB Select the Installation LNB Set ting menu to configure the LNB settings You should see a screen like the left figure Pressing the OK button on the Satellite Name option displays the satellite li...

Page 38: ...in the correct LNB frequency The absolute difference between a broadcasting frequency and its LNB fre quency must be within 950 to 2150 MHz For example if the frequency band of your desired satellite...

Page 39: ...ings Your motorized antenna will turn toward your desired satellites horizontally by DiSEqC 1 2 When you switch to an service if the service is provided by a satellite other than current one it will t...

Page 40: ...every trans ponder and choose the best one at the Transponder or Frequency option It will be helpful to your fine tuning 6 Finally set the Motor Control option to Store to save the tuned position whe...

Page 41: ...he My Longitude option and the My Latitude option with the V V and numeric but tons 4 Enter the position of your selected satellite to the Satellite Angle option if it is not correct 5 Select the Goto...

Page 42: ...of a SMATV Satellite Master Antenna Television system Searching every service of a satellite To search every service of a satellite perform the following steps 1 Choose your desired satellite at the...

Page 43: ...me NOTE You may get transponder information from a satellite magazine or website such as http www satcodx com or http www lyngsat com Searching one service of a transponder To search one service of a...

Page 44: ...well as free services as follows To search only free services set the FTA Scrambled option to FTA only To search only pay services set it to CAS only To search both free services and pay services set...

Page 45: ...e ALL option 4 3 Resetting to factory settings The digital receiver maintains the following data Satellite list Services list Favourite list Timer list Preference settings You can reset all data of th...

Page 46: ...e button Press it again to restore the sound to previous level 5 2 Watching television To change services press the P or P button Pressing the button switches to the previously viewed service In addit...

Page 47: ...or down Entering a service number with the numeric buttons puts the highlight bar on its entry You can switch between the television services list and the radio services list by pressing the button Pr...

Page 48: ...mber to watch or unlock it To delete the highlighted service select the Delete option then you are asked for confirmation If you select Yes it will be deleted If you want to restore it as before you h...

Page 49: ...hightlight bar on a desired group and press the V button a highlight bar appears on its favourite services list Once you select a desired service with the OK button it will be presented Otherwise to...

Page 50: ...ation Signal level and quality Programme name Programme classification symbol Programme summary Broadcasting time Current time In addition you might see the following symbols Subtitle symbol if subtit...

Page 51: ...s the button once more to select an audio track 5 2 5 Selecting subtitle tracks Some programmes are provided with subtitle tracks in one or more languages If the current programme provides subtitle tr...

Page 52: ...s the button To switch to another service press the V or V button You can travel over previous days with the button and can travel over next days with the button To see the programme guide for radio b...

Page 53: ...hout losing any of it When you do this you are no longer watching the live pro gramme instead you are watch ing a delayed presentation of it This is called time shifted tele vision Then you can skip c...

Page 54: ...minutes behind live pro gramme To make a recording of what is in time shift see 7 1 4 To end time shift press the button The live pro gramme will be presented When time shift option is disabled and p...

Page 55: ...ton NOTE When a recording is in progress the available services in the services list may be limited 4 Pressing the button moves the sub screen counter clockwise and pressing the button moves it clock...

Page 56: ...ices list Select the Organizing Svc Fav Organizing Services menu You should see a screen like the left figure There are editing options on the left column and service entries on the right column Once...

Page 57: ...sition Press the OK button to fix it You can lock some services to prevent your children from watching them To lock a service select the Lock option and select a desired service then the selected serv...

Page 58: ...left Favourite list centre Services list right The services list contains all available services whereas the favourite list contains only chosen services that have been added to the highlighted group...

Page 59: ...ar on a desired service entry and press the OK button The selected service entry gets added to the favourite list Repeat this step to add more entries 3 Press the button and the highlight bar get move...

Page 60: ...or to the right of the desired letter on the input line and then select the Del key You must select the Save key to complete naming otherwise if you press the EXIT button it will not be named 6 4 Tran...

Page 61: ...target digital receiver when the data transfer is complete 6 5 Editing channel data on your computer You can edit the channel data on your computer by using a channel editor programme Vega With Vega...

Page 62: ...perform the following steps 1 If you have connected with a USB cable select the Mode USB menu otherwise if you have connected with a RS 232 cable select the Mode Serial menu 2 Select the Up Down Uplo...

Page 63: ...st first select the View Satellite Informa tion menu item Alternatively you can click the Satellite icon on the toolbar or press the F1 key on your keyboard Then the satellite information is displayed...

Page 64: ...hen select the Function Satellite TP Edit Satellite menu item How to modify is the same as in adding a new satellite entry To add a transponder entry select the Function Satellite TP Add Transponder m...

Page 65: ...the TV Service list and press the Delete key on your keyboard When a confirmation dialog box appears the selected service entry will be deleted by pressing the Yes button on it Checking the CAS check...

Page 66: ...st is displayed and related menus become enabled To delete a favourite group choose your desired favourite group at the Favorite Group Name drop down list box and then select the Function Fav Group De...

Page 67: ...add services to the new group choose your desired services at the All Service list box on the left of the screen and then press the right arrow button on the center of the screen Then the selected se...

Page 68: ...feature You can record two different services while playing back a previously recorded programme You can record two different services while watching one of them using the time shift feature See 5 5...

Page 69: ...erefore you can only change to a limited number of services while the two programs are being recorded CAUTION Do not move the digital receiver nor pull out the plug while it is running It may cause da...

Page 70: ...nd press the OK button the recording will end at the specified time If the information about the next programme is provided by the electronic programme guide the After this program and After next prog...

Page 71: ...r service To additionally record another service switch to the service you want to record and press the button Once a recording is started it is put on the recorded programme list even though it is no...

Page 72: ...a new timer event press the button and a box like the left figure appears Take the fol lowing steps 1 Set the Record option to On to make a recording If this option is set to Off the digital receiver...

Page 73: ...day month year day of the week Set the Start Time option to a desired time at which the recording will be started The time format is hour minute 7 Set the Duration option to a desired time in which t...

Page 74: ...hange its settings in the same manner as making a new one To delete a timer event put the highlight bar on the entry you want to remove and press the button then you are asked for confirmation If you...

Page 75: ...a service you want to record with the V and V buttons 3 Select a programme you want to record with the P and P buttons 4 To make a timer event without recording press the OK button the letter P is di...

Page 76: ...n record it by performing the following steps 1 Press the button to display the progress bar 2 To move to the beginning of the desired scene hold down the or button until it is reached 3 Press the but...

Page 77: ...lowing steps 1 Select a programme of a pay service you want to record 2 Make sure that the subscription card is inserted in the slot on the front of the digital receiver 3 Start recording 4 Do not swi...

Page 78: ...list there are an MP3 list and a TAP list To view other lists press the or button See 7 6 for MP3 playback See Chapter 8 for descrip tion about TAP You can play move delete rename and lock a recording...

Page 79: ...dings To sort the recordings perform the following steps 1 Press the button to display the additional options 2 Set the Sorting option to Alphabetic Time or Size as you want 3 Press the EXIT button 4...

Page 80: ...e following steps 1 Put the highlight bar on a desired recording 2 Press the button to display the additional options 3 Set the Lock option to Locked 4 Press the EXIT button 5 The lock symbol is displ...

Page 81: ...ecording perform the following steps 1 Put the highlight bar on a desired recording 2 Press the button to display the additional options 3 Select the Rename option and the on screen keyboard appears C...

Page 82: ...ecording and Playing 7 2 5 To make a new folder To make a new folder press the button then a new folder named GROUP is created You can change its name in the same manner as renaming a recording See ab...

Page 83: ...ess the button to display the list of recorded programmes 2 Put the highlight bar on a desired recording 3 Press the OK button to start playback 4 To stop playback press the button During a playback y...

Page 84: ...ard hold down the button To bookmark a position refer to 7 3 4 If there are no bookmarks you can jump forward 30 seconds at a time by pressing the button You can jump backward 10 seconds at a time by...

Page 85: ...rding 79 7 3 2 To play in slow motion To watch in slow motion during a playback press the button If you press it repeatedly the playback speed changes in 3 steps 1 2 1 4 and 1 8 times To resume normal...

Page 86: ...it repeatedly the playback speed changes in 3 steps 2 4 and 6 times To resume normal speed press the button You can play not only forward but also backward in fast mo tion To play backward press the b...

Page 87: ...again afterwards To make bookmarks perform the following steps during play back 1 Press the button to display the progress bar 2 To add a bookmark press the button at a desired scene then you will se...

Page 88: ...l it press the button again To play back in part perform the following steps 1 Press the button to display the progress bar 2 Move to the beginning scene of the part you want to play repeatedly by hol...

Page 89: ...vely select the File List menu to display the list of recorded programmes 2 Select each desired recording with the button once a recording is selected it gets numbered 3 Press the OK button to start p...

Page 90: ...not been descrambled at all Refer to 7 1 5 for how to record a pay service programme 7 4 Editing a recording You can cut out or save a part such as a commercial from a recording by performing the foll...

Page 91: ...original recording then pressing button until the speed has increased to six times then pressing the button The copy will be done at six times normal speed 7 6 MP3 playback You can enjoy music or audi...

Page 92: ...fer files take the following steps 1 Download the Altair programme and the USB driver from the Topfield website 2 Install them on your computer 3 Plug one end of a USB cable into the USB port on the d...

Page 93: ...tops responding to commands from the remote control If you want to use the digital receiver while transferring or if any scheduled recordings are due to start you should not use turbo mode NOTE You ca...

Page 94: ...l delete all files permanently NOTE If a new hard disk drive is installed it must be formatted because the file system of the digital receiver is different from any of the personal computer You can ne...

Page 95: ...indriver com Some variants of GCC compiler also might be available as a compiler for TAPs You can get the Application program Interface API libraries for TAPs from the Topfield website http www i topf...

Page 96: ...is a run ning screen of a TAP Image Viewer which displays image files of BMP GIF and JPG for mat This TAP is available from the website http www i topfield com In the program file list you can use a...

Page 97: ...te utility which runs on most versions of Windows from the Topfield website http www i topfield com 9 1 Checking the firmware information You have to check the firmware information of your digital re...

Page 98: ...92 Firmware Update NOTE You can only update with firmwares of which system identifi cation is identical to that of yours Otherwise you will fail in firmware update...

Page 99: ...d a new firmware applicable to your digital receiver from the Topfield website 2 Plug one end of a USB cable into the USB port on the digital receiver and the other end into the matching port on your...

Page 100: ...irmware applicable to your digital receiver from the Topfield website 2 Turn off the digital receiver 3 Plug one end of a RS 232 cable 9 pin D sub cable into the RS 232 port on the dig ital receiver a...

Page 101: ...end of a RS 232 cable 9 pin D sub cable into the RS 232 port on the dig ital receiver and the other end into the matching port on the other digital receiver 3 Turn on the source digital receiver if n...

Page 102: ...ing the Start option starts firmware update Satellite Astra 19 2 E Frequency 12603 MHz Symbol Rate 22000 KS s Polarisation Horizontal PID 347 On the left table is presented the transponder information...

Page 103: ...51 Alphabetic 73 Altair 86 Astra 96 AUDIO L 16 AUDIO L R 11 AUDIO R 16 Auto 36 Auto Start 90 Button 4 C band 30 CAM 7 CAS 59 CAS only 38 CAS TP 25 CAS FTA 42 52 Censorship 27 Center extract 23 Change...

Page 104: ...8 Info Box Position 28 information box 44 IRD Status 91 Ku band 31 keyboard 54 Language Setting 19 Letter Box 23 LNB 31 LNB 1 IN 11 LNB 1 IN 13 31 32 LNB 2 IN 11 LNB 2 IN 13 14 31 32 LNB Frequency 32...

Page 105: ...8 Separated 31 Serial 56 Service 66 Service Search 36 Services Copy 39 services list 40 Show Provider 42 Size 73 SMATV 36 SMATV 38 Sort 51 Sorting 42 73 Sound Mode 23 Space 54 specifications 10 12 Sta...

Page 106: ...TV Service 59 TV Type 21 Type 66 Upload 56 Upload from STB 56 USALS 34 USALS Setting 35 USB 12 USB 56 86 93 User 34 User Select 26 VCR 12 VCR 17 VCR Scart Type 22 Vega 55 VIDEO 11 VIDEO 14 15 Video Ou...

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