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[. . . ] TerraTec Home Cinema User Manual Version 6 Introducing: The TerraTec Home Cinema. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Launching the software for the first time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Design and controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 The on-screen display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 The info bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] The recording will be converted into MPEG-PS format when you export it. For more information on navigating within recordings, see Navigation functions. Page 46 TerraTec Home Cinema User Manual Version 6 Teletext Modern media technology like the Internet made a widespread service offered by TV broadcasting establishments somewhat forgotten in recent years: teletext. Press the Teletext button once to display the teletext page of the current station in the TV window. Pressing the button again will display the page transparently over the current TV program. Pressing it once more ends the teletext display and returns you to normal TV display. Normal Transparent The remote control, mouse and keyboard can be used to navigate teletext pages. When using the numerical keypad, please ensure that the NumLock is active. Entering the page number directly To enter a page number directly, use the keypad of the remote control or keyboard. The page will be opened immediately after the last digit has been entered. Using the mouse to select pages Teletext pages can also be opened by clicking on their numbers, as you would click a link in a web browser. a) Page memory and subpage display In addition to the normal teletext navigation, the teletext also indicates whether additional pages with the same page number are present in the page memory. The availability of additional pages is indicated by arrows before or after the selected page number. Select the subpages with the left and right arrow buttons. b) Page references ­ navigating with colour fields Teletext itself offers simple navigation options with a method known as FLOF or TOP teletext. Colour fields or coloured text is often visible at the bottom of a teletext page. These markings are comparable to links on websites, leading directly to the relevant links. You may also find the same colours on your remote control buttons. Example 1 Page 47 TerraTec Home Cinema User Manual Version 6 Example 2 c) Teletext in a dedicated window Teletext can also be displayed in its own window. This can be controlled using the context menu or the CTRL+T key combination. For those who are especially interested in Videotext, here is a little tip: You can also select interesting lines of text by pressing the mouse button. Use the CTRL+C key combination to copy the highlighted text to the clipboard; then, use the CTRL+V key to copy it to another location, such as a new text document. Page 48 TerraTec Home Cinema User Manual Version 6 The settings calls up the settings window. The advanced configuration options of the TerraTec Home Cinema can be found here: Options User interface Record Still image Audio/Video Scan Stations Select the TerraTec TV card you would like to use here. Select the language of the user interface and control the appearance of the OSD here. Use this tab to arrange the stations in the order you prefer, create Favourites lists, and much more. You can configure the network streaming options of the TerraTec Home Cinema here. This tab gives advanced users the ability to change additional preferences. This provides useful information about the software and the devices used. Network tvtv service Advanced About Page 49 TerraTec Home Cinema User Manual Version 6 Options Installed devices A broad range of TerraTec TV products are supported. If you do not want to use a device, simply untick its list entry. Miscellaneous Priority - Set here the priority Windows should give the application. By setting a lower value here, Windows will give more CPU resources to other applications. This may lead to choppy video playback, however. Update Check for new version on startup ­ If you enable this option, TerraTec Home Cinema checks for a new version each time it is started. [. . . ] DVB is broadcast as a transport stream containing all of the information transmitted by the station. VMR-7 or VMR-9 Video Mixing Renderer 7 or 9 are Windows display components optimised for DirectX. Page 80 TerraTec Home Cinema User Manual Version 6 Editing recordings using Cut! Cut!is an editing tool that lets you remove unnecessary ballast from your video recordings. For a detailed description of Cut!, please see the program itself. Page 81 TerraTec Home Cinema User Manual Version 6 tvtv tvtv is available in the following countries: Germany France United Kingdom Italy Netherlands Austria Switzerland Spain www. tvtv. de www. tvtv. fr www. tvtv. co. uk www. tvtv. it www. tvtv. nl www. tvtv. at www. tvtv. ch www. tvtv. es An account is required in order to use tvtv. If you did not create a tvtv account during installation, you may also do so at a later time. [. . . ]