1 Introduction
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Thank you for purchasing this television set. bottom of the TV screen;
This manual contains all information you will ? Shopping channel logos and pricing
need to initially install and operate your new displays: bright and shown constantly or
TV. repeatedly in the same location on the English
TV screen.
If this instruction manual does not ? Examples of still pictures also include
give an answer to your problem or logos, computer images, time display,
if the troubleshooting page does not solve teletext and images displayed in 4:3
your TV problem, you can call your Local mode, static images or characters, etc.
Philips Customer or Service Centre. See the
Tip:
supplied Worldwide guarantee booklet for Reduce contrast and brightness when
details. Please have the Model and Product
number (which you can find at the back or viewing.
the bottom of your television set or on the
1.1.2 Electric, Magnetic and
packaging) ready, before calling the Philips Electromagnetic Fields (EMF)
customer support service.
? Royal Philips manufactures and sells many
1.1 Important information products targeted at consumers, which,
1.1.1 Stationary images on the TV like any electronic apparatus, in general
have the ability to emit and receive
screen electromagnetic signals.
A characteristic of LCD and Plasma Panels ? One of Philips? leading Business
is that displaying the same image for a long Principles is to take all necessary health
time can cause a permanent after-image to
remain on the screen. This is called and safety measures for our products, to
comply with all applicable legal
phosphor burn in. Normal use of the TV requirements and to stay well within the
should involve the showing of pictures EMF standards applicable at the time of
that contain constantly moving and changing
images that fill the screen. producing the products.
Examples of stationary images (this is not ? Philips is committed to develop, produce
an all inclusive list, you may encounter and market products that cause no
adverse health effects.
others in your viewing).
? Philips confirms that if its products are
? TV and DVD menus: listings of DVD handled properly for their intended use,
disk content.
? Black bars: when black bars appear at they are safe to use according to scientific
the left and right side of the screen, it is evidence available today.
recommended to change to a picture? Philips plays an active role in the
format so that the picture fills the entire development of international EMF and
screen; safety standards, enabling Philips to
? TV channel logo: present a problem if anticipate further developments in
they are bright and stationary. Moving standardisation for early integration in its
or low-contrast graphics are less likely products.
to cause uneven aging of the screen;
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