Haier 25T8D Operating Instructions Manual

2 ◆Digital I C bus control ◆Auto search tuning & 218 programs stored ◆Full infrared remote control ◆Multi-picture modes selection ◆Multi-function timer,appointing programme 0090504505

1. When you clean the TV set, please pull out the power plug from AC outlet. Or may result in electric shock, fire or damage to the TV set. Don't clean the cabinet and the screen with benzene, petrol and other chemicals. 4. Do not place the TV set near rain or moisture as it may cause an electric shock, or the TV set to catch fire. The TV set must only be used in dry indoor location. 2. In order to prolong the using life of the TV set, please place it at a well ventilated location. 5. The back cover must only be removed by a registered electrical service person. Removing the back cover may result in electric shock, fire or damage to the TV set. 3. Don't place the TV set in direct sunlight or near heat source. 6. If the TV set is not going to be used for a long time, or there is a severe thunder & lightening storm, it is recommended that the TV set be disconnected from the AC power outlet and the aerial plug removed. Explanation on the display tube When the picture tube requires cleaning, please disconnect the power and use a dry soft cotton cloth. Do not use any cleaner or abrasive cloth. 1 CONTENTS Warning and cautions.............................................................................................1 Basic feature...........................................................................................................2 Technical specification...........................................................................................2 Preparing for operations.........................................................................................3 Function buttons and external sockets....................................................................4 AV connection.........................................................................................................5 Remote controller guide..........................................................................................6 Power supply...........................................................................................................7 Tuning procedure....................................................................................................7 Picture adjustment...................................................................................................9 Other functions......................................................................................................10 Multi function timer...............................................................................................14 Lock function.........................................................................................................15 Trouble shooting guide..........................................................................................17

S-VIDEO 3 Y Cb Cr OUT IN BASIC FEATURE ●I C bus control ●218 programs stored ●Display full functions on the screen and infrared remote control ●Multi-picture modes and sound modes selection ●Auto searching, function selecting and program number skipping ●Multi function timer ●Progammes scanning ●Game, multi-function lock ●Stage curtain for open and close effect 2 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 1.POWER SUPPLY: See rating plate 2.COLOUR SYSTEM: PAL N TSC4.43/3.58(AV) 3.AUDIO SYSTEM: B/G 4.CRT: 25" 5.ANTENNA INPUT : 75Ω Standard Coaxial Cable 6.SOUND OUTPUT POWER: 3W 7.POWER CONSUMPTION: See rating plate 8.NET WEIGHT(kg): 29 9.NET DIMENSION(mm): 740 x 470x 535 Supplied accessories: Infrared remote control handset 1 Battery(AA) 2 Operating instruction 1 Design and specifications are subject to change without notice. 2 Figure A Figure B Antenna cable with a plug Figure C Figure D Antenna feeder Antenna adapter 75-300Ω Coaxial cable(75Ω) twin-lead cable(300Ω) Antenna connection Connect an antenna to the antenna socket on the TV set, We recommend using a Cable TV system for better picture and audio quality. 1.If you use a coaxial cable(75Ω),insert the antenna plug (see figure C) into 75Ωsocket (see figure A). 2.If you use a twin-lead cable(300Ω),please shape the cable as figure D, and connect the leads to antenna adapter and then insert the antenna adapter into the 75Ωsocket.(see figure B) Power source wire connection Insert the power plug into AC outlet. Install and replace batteries of the remote control unit: 1.Place the remote control unit with the face down, then open the battery cover of the unit. 2.Place the two"AA"size batteries, matching the + and - signs on each battery to the + and -signs of the battery compartment. 3.Close the cover of the battery compartment. NOTE: (1)Don't drop or wet or dismantle the unit. (2)If you don't intend to use the unit for a long period or the electricity of the batteries is used up, remove the batteries to prevent batteries acid from leaking into the battery compartment. (3)Replace the two old batteries at the same time. (4)Don't use charge battery (Ni-cd )and don't mix battery type. (5)Don't throw your batteries into a fire. Dispose of your batteries in a required place. PREPARING FOR OPERATIONS 3 Antenna

4 1.Front panel ①Remote sensor:Let the remote controller aim here the set can receive remote control signal. ②Power switch:Press the button to turn on the TV set ,press the button again to turn off the TV set. ③Power indicator: The indicator lights when power on. ④Menu button ⑤Program up/down button ⑥Volume up/down button ⑦TV/AV ① ② ③ ⑤ ⑥⑦ ④ P+ _ P V+ _ V TV/AV MENU - - - VIDEO IN L AUDIO R S-VIDEO 3 Y Cb Cr OUT IN ① ② ③ ④ 2.The sockets on the rear panel ①Antenna socket ②Audio/Video socket ③S-Video socket ④DVD component socket VIDEO IN L AUDIO R Y Cb Cr OUT W R B G R DVD(with DVD component) W R G B Direction of signal white（left audio） red（C /right audio ） blue（C ） green （video） （Y） yellow r b Y S-VIDEO VCR (without S-VIDEO terminal) Y W R To a dio ut u o VCR (with S-VIDEO terminal) W R s e o t To -vid o utpu v o u To ide o tput o mp e t u T co on n o t Note: 1.When receives s-video signal, you must remove video signal; when receive video signal, you must remove s-video signal. 2.When receive front video signal, you must remove back video signal; when receive back video signal, you must remove front video signal. VIDEO IN L AUDIO R S-VIDEO 3 Y Cb Cr OUT IN VIDEO IN L AUDIO R S-VIDEO 3 Y Cb Cr OUT IN

Press power switch button and the set shall be under normal receiving condition. Press it again and the power shall be off. 2.Standby button (remote controller power supply). Press the button and the set enters standby condition, press it again and the set enters normal receiving condition. 1.Preparation Connect the aerial and power supply wire, press power switch button, the power indicator will light after a few seconds. 2.Auto-search The TV set will automatically search all programs, after the search is finished, all . fine tuned programs will be stored automatically. (1)Press [MENU] button, let TUNING menu display on the screen. (2)Press [-CH+] button to select AUTO MEMORY item. (3)Press [VOL+] button, the TV set will begin to search programs from program number 0. After the search is finished, program number 0 will display on the screen. (4)During auto-search, if you want to stop searching, press [VOL-] button. 3.Semi-Auto search You can preset the program you need to the pointed channel. TUNING PROCEDURE POSITION 1 BAND UHF SKIP OFF SEARCH UP MFT DOWN AUTO MEMORY SELECT ADJUST TUNING Remote control functions TV/AV exchanging button Mute button Numeric button One/two/three digital buttons Picture mode selection Volume up/dwon button 1 2 3 4 5 6 11 15 16 17 17 18 16 3 15 14 13 12 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 TV/AV SCAN LOCK SYSTEM DISPLAY -/-- BAR MENU CH+ RESTART WIDE PRE FIRE FIRE MIX SHORT SECOND EXIT LIGHT NARROW BACK SELC.PIC SELC.VOL CH- VOL- VOL+ 1 2 5 4 6 7 8 9 10 7 Recall 8 Calendar/game selection 9 10 Second timer button Volume mode selection 12 Display 13 Invalid button 14 System preset button Lock preset button Scan button DC standby button 18 Sleep timer Programme promote 10 Note :Because there is no bar function in the TV,"LONG", "SHORT", “WIDE", "NARROW" buttons are invalid. 6 7 20 19 19 20 Program number up/down button Menu button REMOTE CONTROLLER GUIDE

TUNING PROCEDURE (1)Press [MENU] button, let TUNING menu display on the screen. (2)Press [-CH+] buttons to select SEARCH item. (3)Press [-VOL+] buttons to change channel number into pointed channel number. (4)Press [-VOL+] buttons, when the TV set has searched a program, stop searching, if the program isn't the one you need, press [-VOL +] buttons again, the set will search continually until it has searched the program you need. And pointed program is stored in pointed channel. 4.Selecting band In the semi-auto search mode, if the signal you want to search isn't on the present band, you can change the band to improve searching speed. (1)Press [MENU] button, let TUNING menu display on the screen. (2)Press [-CH+] buttons to select BAND item. (3)Press [-VOL+] buttons to select the band you need. 5.Fine tuning Because of some reasons, if auto searching effect of program isn't good, please fine tune your TV set. (1)Press [-CH+] buttons to select MFT item. (2)Press and hold [-VOL +] buttons until the effects of the picture and audio are good. 6.Skip The function can skip the TV program which you don't need. (1)Press [-CH+] buttons or numeric button, select the program number which you want to skip. (for example: channel 002) (2)Press [MENU] button to select TUNING menu. (3)Press [-CH+] buttons to select SKIP item. (4)Press [-VOL+] buttons to preset SKIP ON mode. Note: When a certain program number is in SKIP ON mode, the program number will not appear when you select program with the [-CH+] buttons, but program number will appear with numeric button. When a certain program number is in the SKIP OFF mode, the program number will appear when you select program with [-CH+] buttons. 8 Press [MENU] button and select PICTURE menu. Press [-CH+] buttons to select an item. Press [-VOL+] to adjust the value of the item function. Brightness adjustment: Press [-CH+] buttons to select BRIGHT item. Press [-VOL+] buttons to adjust brightness. Contrast adjustment: Press [-CH+] buttons to select CONTRAST item. Press [-VOL+] buttons to adjust contrast. Colour adjustment: Press [-CH+] buttons to select COLOR item. Press [-VOL+] buttons to adjust colour. Sharpness adjustment: Press [-CH+] buttons to select SHARP item. Press [-VOL+] buttons to adjust sharpness. Background selection: Press [-VOL+] buttons to select a background on or off.. PICTURE ADJUSTMENT CONTRAST 100 BRIGHT 50 COLOR 50 SHARP 50 B.B OFF SELECT ADJUST PICTURE 9

(2)Press [-CH+] buttons, and select an item. (3)Press [-VOL+] buttons to set function of the item . (1)Press [MENU] button, and select FUNCTION2 menu. (2)Press [-CH+] buttons, and select an item. (3)Press [-VOL+] buttons to set function of the item . Note: (1)If you select COUNT item , you can get the total time of receiving TV program (except standby time). (2)Soft-exchanging channel No. function: select S.C.C ON, so when you exchange channel No., the picture will fade in/out. Note: (1)When you select VOL STORE ON, the TV set can hold the same volume with changing channel No. .(The channel No. must be 1 between 50.) (2)When you select CURTAIN item, you can select three curtain modes: I, II and III. (3)The TV set can select English or Chinese OSD. LANG. ENGLISH I CURTAIN LOW VOL 20 NORMAL VOL 40 HIGH VOL 60 VOL STORE OFF SELECT ADJUST FUNCTION1 SELECT ADJUST SUBMARINE POS.EX S.C.C OFF COUNT 13:21 FUNCTION2 10 3.POS.EX item: Press [VOL+] button to enter its sub-menu(digits in POS.EX and EX.POS2 items are present channel No.). Press [-CH+] buttons to select EX.POS2 item. Press [CH+] button to put into channel No.(for example:9). Press [-CH+] buttons to select EXCHANGE item, press [VOL+] button to approve. The program in channel No. 1 will change with the program in channel No.9. OTHER FUNCTIONS POS.EX. EX.POS1 23 EX.POS2 23 EXCHANGE ？ RETURN POS.EX. EX.POS1 1 EX.POS2 9 EXCHANGE ？ RETURN 9 11 1.FUNCTI ON 1 The function can select OSD language, curtain mode, volume mode and volume memory mode.

buttons (except [GAME],[VOL-/+],[CH+/-]， ) are invalid. Play game: Instructions of game controlling buttons 2.Press red game button and game begins , use the remote controller to operate yellow battle ship. Yellow battle ship bump one of green ship or blue ship or purple ship or red ship or blue shot. and game is over. Yellow ship use [MENU] or blue [FIRE] button shoot shots. The shot bump green ship or blue ship or purple ship or blue shot and win 100scores,the shot bump or red ship, and win 1000 scores. 3.During game or game is over, press red button and game can restart. Ship obtaining highest scores wins. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I SCORE 000 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I SCORE 5800 GAME OVER 1.Press [MENU] button to make FUNCTION2 menu display, then press[ CH-/+] buttons to select SUBMARINE item, and press [VOL+] button to enter SUBMARINE game mode. MENU CH+ FIRE CH- VOL- VOL+ RESTART MIX EXIT LIGHT FIRE Fire button Up/Down button Left/Right button Fire button Selection buttons of game background Game restart button Game exit button OTHER FUNCTIONS 12 CALENDAR OTHER FUNCTIONS 3.System selection: (1)Press [SYSTEM] button, then OSD is as figure. (2)Press [-CH+] button, and select an item. (3)Press [-VOL+] buttons to select a system(color system or sound system) you need. COLOR AUTO SOUND B/G SELECT ADJUST 4.Picture mode selection: Press [SELC.PIC] button and select a picture mode you need: DYNAMIC MILD MEMORY COLOR MUTE 5.Calendar function: (1)Press [CALENDAR] button, and OSD is as figure(press the button again, the OSD disappears.). (2)Press [-CH+] buttons to select year, press [-VOL+] buttons to select month. STANDARD PICTURE MUTE OCT 2002 YEAR MONTH 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 SU MO TU WE TH FR SA 13 1 2 3 4 5

(1)Clock Press [-CH+] buttons to select CLOCK item; Press [-VOL+] buttons to set present time. Note: At first, you must set CLOCK item, then you can set other items. (2)On-timer and off-timer Press [-CH+] buttons to select ON-TIMER or OFF-TIMER item, press [-VOL+] buttons to set.(ON-TIMER/OFF-TIMER can be set to ONCE or EVERY or OFF.) (3)Appointing time Press [-CH+] buttons, and select APPOINTMENT item. Press [CH-] button, and enter "appointing program" sub-menu. Press [-VOL+] buttons to select a channel No.(for example :100). Press [CH-] button, and enter APPOINTMENT mode, then press [-VOL+] buttons to preset time. (Note: 1.Press [-VOL+] buttons once and time changes with one minute unit; press and hold [-VOL+] buttons and time changes with 10 minutes unit. 2.When it is appointing time, the TV set changes channel No. into appointing channel No. . 3.The function is valid only in TV mode.) Press [DISPLAY] button and exit APPOINTMENT menu. MULTI FUNCTION TIMER OFF TIMER OFF 0:00 ON TIMER OFF 0:00 POS 0 CLOCK 0:50 APPOINTMENT SELECT ADJUST APPOINTMENT POS. TIME 001 0:01 002 0:02 003 0:03 004 0:04 005 0:05 006 0:06 SELECT ADJUST TIMER 14 定时关机功能 The password of the TV set is preset "0000" in manufacture, if you want to change the password, you can fill in four digits. Changing password 3.Press numeric buttons and fill in four digits. 1.Press [LOCK] button, OSD is as the right figure. 4.You can fill in new password. LOCK OR UNLOCK PASSWORD: ---- LOCK OR UNLOCK CHANGE PASS SEARCH LOCK OFF POS LOCK OFF AV LOCK OFF TIMER LOCK OFF CHILD LOCK OFF ALL CLEAR OFF CHANGE PASS: NEW PASS: ---- LOCK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 MENU CH+ CH- VOL+ VOL- 15 2.Press "0" button directly for four times, and enter LOCK PRESET menu. Press [CH+/- ] buttons to select "CHANGE PASS" item, then press [VOL+] button to enter "CHANGE PASS" sub-menu. LOCK FUNCTION FIRE

AV, timer and child lock items, if you need to lock them. Lock preset 3.Press [CH+/-] buttons to select "SEARCH LOCK" item, and press [VOL+] button to select "ON" or "OFF". 1.Press LOCK button, and OSD is as the right figure. LOCK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 MENU CH+ CH- VOL+ VOL- LOCK OR UNLOCK PASSWORD: ---- LOCK OR UNLOCK CHANGE PASS SEARCH LOCK OFF POS LOCK OFF AV LOCK OFF TIMER LOCK OFF CHILD LOCK OFF ALL CLEAR OFF CHANGE PASS: NEW PASS: ---- Note: 1.After locking channel or AV, screen is black, no picture and no sound. 2.After locking child lock, the buttons on the TV set are invalid. 3.After locking channel search or timer, if you want to enter menu, you need to fill in password. 2.Press "0" button directly for four times (or press the four-digit password you have changed) to enter LOCK PRESET menu. 16 LOCK FUNCTION Note:1.If the problem can not be fixed after you check above items. DO NOT attempt to remove the back cover by yourself. 2.If the snapping sound from the cabinet of the TV set can be heard occasionally because of temperature changing of environment, it is normal, you can use it reassuringly. TROUBLE SHOOTING GUIDE BREAKDOWN PHENOMENON PICTURE SOUND CHECKING The direction and connection of the antenna Direction, station and connection of the antenna Interference from electric appliance. Automobile、Motor, Vehicle Fluorescence lamp etc. Volume, Sound mute The power plug isn't plugged in AC outlet. The main power isn't turned on. The setting up of contrast, brig- htness and volume. Adjust color control Adjust channel again Moving the TV set or using magnetic electric appli- ance near TV, Which will lead to color spot on sc- reen. Please remove the electric appliance and cut off power. After 120 minutes turn the TV on, the pic- ture will be recovered. The following problems are not always caused by hardware failure, please use the follow trouble shooting guide before you call for service: 17 ? Picture with snow Color Spot No Color No Picture Normal Disturb Double or Triple Image Noise Normal Noise No Sound No Sound Normal Volume Normal or Weak Volume Normal Volume ? Scramble FIRE