Using the teletext – Technicolor - Thomson 42PB120S4 User Manual

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Using the teletext

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Teletext offers some other useful functions:

Newsflash

When a newsflash is detected, PAT is replaced by N. Press the blue
button to display the newsflash. In the case of an update,Teletext is
automatically enabled and displays the new information.

To display the header and the navigation bar again, press any button
(except

EXIT

, the button

or the volume adjustment buttons) on the

remote control.

This function is cancelled when you change channels or put the set into
standby.

To return to TV mode, press

EXIT

.

Subtitles

Some channels provide subtitles for some of their programmes through
Teletext.The numbers of the relevant pages are specified on the Teletext
index page.

To display the subtitles, enter the number of the relevant page. Once it is
found, the subtitles appear in the TV picture.The header and the
navigation bar disappear after a couple of seconds.To display them again,
press any button (except

EXIT

, the button

or the volume

adjustment buttons) on the remote control.

To return to TV mode, press

EXIT

.

Alarm page

In some countries (Spain, Benelux, etc.), you can set a time to display
certain Teletext pages (alarm pages).

To do this, display the relevant alarm page and press the

buttons to

enter subpage mode. Enter the time instead of the subpage number (e.g.
1705 for 17:05) and press

EXIT

.The page will disappear and will appear

again at the set time, as long as you do not change channels or switch off
the set beforehand.

Fastext

If Fastext is available, direct access to previous and subsequent pages is
replaced with coloured bars (red, green, yellow and blue) which provide
links to the topics you can access by pressing the corresponding buttons
on the remote control.

Press the

MENU

button to access these direct links, press it again to

display the navigation bar.

Temporary change of the character set

You can temporarily change the character set.To do so, display the
navigation bar using the

MENU

button, then press the

OK

button to

display the number of the current character set in place of ???.

Scroll the list of character sets using the green button. Press the

OK

button to display the ??? function again.

The character set will reset to the one selected in the MANUAL
INSTALLATION
menu:
- when the set is turned off or put into standby,
- when you change channels.

In Teletext mode, volume controls remain available, but the relevant
symbols do not display.

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