Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product E485 Sceptre Technologies
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- 1 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Dear Sceptr e Cust omer, Congratu lations on your new SC EPTRE E485 HDTV purcha se. Thank you for you r support.
- 2 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l IMPOR T ANT INFORMA TION.
- 3 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l SAFETY INSTR UCTIONS Electricity is used to perf orm m any useful f unctions, but it can also caus e personal injuries and property damage if improperly handl ed. This product has been engineered and ma nufactured with the highes t priority on safety.
- 4 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l SAFETY INSTR UCTIONS This product is designed and manufactured to operate within defined design limits, and misuse may result in electric shock or fire.
- 5 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l • Do not ove rload pow er strips and extension co rds. Overloading can result in fire or electric shock. • The wall so cket should be installe d near the equi pment and sho uld be easily acce ssible.
- 6 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l IMPOR T ANT INFORMA TION T ele vision Antenna Connection Pr otection Externa l Televis ion Antenna Grounding If an outside antenna or cab le syst.
- 7 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Opening the P a c k a ge The SCEPTRE T V is pack aged in a carton. Any s tandard acc essories are packed separately in anoth er carton.
- 8 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Attac hing or R emo ving the Stand 1. To attach the neck , lay the TV flat on a table with the sc reen facing downwards . Fit the neck piece onto the b ottom of the TV. Install and tighte n the 4 screws indicated i n the pict ure.
- 9 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l T a b le of Contents IMPORTANT INF ORMATION .......... ............ ......... ........... ........... ............ ........... ........... ............ ........... 2 SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS ......
- 10 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Identi fying F r ont and R ear P anel Fro n t V i e w INDICAT OR LIGHT – The li ght is red when power i s plug ged in b ut the TV i s not turned on. The light turns blue w hen the TV is turned on.
- 11 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l To finaliz e your installatio n of the TV, please re ad the follow ing: 1. If you are p lacing th e TV on a stand, we wo uld rec ommend you t o us e a TV safety strap (not included) i n order to minimize the possibility of the TV toppl ing over.
- 12 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Side Contr ol Buttons 1. VOL(+) – This button increases the TV’s volu me. If a sub-menu is active, pressing this button will move the select right. 2. VOL(-) – This button decreases the TV’s volu me.
- 13 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l R ear Vie w Connections 1. Video – Video connects to devices that use composit e video cables such as VCR or DVD player or Wii™. C onnect the yellow for vid eo and the red / whit e for audi o.
- 14 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l over-the-airwave antennas. The tuner is a hybrid tuner that tunes to both anal og and dig ital chann els. This conn ection us es coaxial RF cable. Fo r over-the air wave digit al stati ons pleas e check http://www.
- 15 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l SCEPTRE R emote Contr ol This re mote control f ollow s SONY ’s univer sal r emot e code. To find the a ctual cod e you need to consult your cable or sate llite tech supp ort.
- 16 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l For uni versal remote s, this TV f ollo ws S ONY’s universa l rem ote co de. You need t o fin d the actual co de from your ca ble or sat ellite or uni versa l rem ote pr ovider. Th e button order is from left to right.
- 17 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Installing Ba tteries to the R emo te Contr ol Please in sert t wo AA A bat teries in to t he remote control. Make su re that you match the (+) and (-) symbols on the batteries with the (+) and (-) symbol s inside the battery comp artment.
- 18 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Connection Suggestions If Y ou Ha ve Ant enna… 1. Make sure the power of HDTV is tu rned off. 2. Connect the Co axial R F cable fro m your antenna to the TV po rt on the back of your HDTV. 3. Turn on the HDTV.
- 19 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Connecting D VD Play er with Component YPbPr… 1. Make sure the power of HD TV and your DVD player is turned off. 2. Obtain a Component Cable. C onnect t he green c olor connec tor to both your DVD player and YPbPr’s green conn ector port on the bac k of your HDTV.
- 20 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Connecting Wii™ with Compos ite… 1. Make sure the power of HDTV an d your Wii™ is tu rned off. 2. Obtain a Yellow V ideo Cable. Connect the Yellow Video connec tor to both your Wii™ and AV’s Yell ow Video connector port on the back side of your HDTV.
- 21 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Connecting Ca ble or Sa tellite bo x es with HDMI… 1. Make sure the power of HDTV an d your set-top b ox is turned off. 2. Connect a HDM I c able to the HD MI output o f your s et-top bo x and the other end to the HDMI port on the back of you r HDTV.
- 22 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Connecting to a PC wit h VG A and 3.5 mm m inijac k … 1. Make sure the power of HDTV and your PC is turned off. 2. Obtain a 15-pi n D-Sub VGA ca ble; connect to the VGA output of your PC an d the other end to the VGA port on th e back of your HDTV .
- 23 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Connecting a Digital Audi o R eceiv er with Coax SPDIF… 1. Make sure the power of HDTV and you r receiver is turned of f. 2. Obtain an optical SPDIF ca ble, connec t it to your receiver’s optica l SPDIF digital inp ut and t he optical SP DIF con nection on the on the back of the HDTV.
- 24 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Switc hing Sour ces 1. Press the SOURCE butt on on the r ight of t he TV to s witch sources. 2. The source HD MI 2 / MHL will automa tically display to the word ROKU if a ROKU stream ing stick is con nected.
- 25 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Re a d y t o Wat ch S o m e T V ? Starting up t he HDTV 1. Make sure y our power cable is connected and the standb y red light in the front of the TV is lit up. 2. Check all you r co nnection cab les off the side o r the bac k of your TV and als o your AV devices.
- 26 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l OSD (On Scr e en Display) Contr ol s Via Remo t e C o n tr ol In order to adjust most of th e options inside the On Sc reen Disp lay (OS D), the pictu re below shows all the bu ttons used on the remo te con trol.
- 27 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l OSD (On Scr een Display) Options PICTURE – This main opt ion has fu nctions fo r chang ing the pic ture settings for al l port s, such as tint, contrast, sh arpness.
- 28 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l 1. Press MENU t o open t he OSD. 2. Press ◄ or ► to select PICTURE an d press ENTER . 3. Use ▲ or ▼ to select the on e you want to adju st and ◄ or ► or ENTER to adjust them. I. PICTURE SETTINGS i.
- 29 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l V. ADVANCE PICTURE SETTI NGS i. DYNAMIC CONTRAST – This feature a llows the TV to automatically adjust the contrast of the TV dependin g on the picture yo u are viewing.
- 30 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l SOUND This option a llow s users to adjust t he TV’s s ound func tions. 1. Press MENU t o open t he OSD. 2. Press ◄ or ► to select SOUND and press EN TER . 3. Use ▲ or ▼ to select the on e you want to adju st and ◄ or ► or ENTER to adjust them.
- 31 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l iv. BALANCE – This feature adju sts the balance between the two speakers movi ng sound from left to rig ht. II. ANALOG SOUND – This featur e adjusts the second aud io programming in analog c hannels .
- 32 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l CHANNEL This option al lows us er to adjust th e TV’s tu ner functions . 1. Press M ENU to open the OSD . 2. Press ◄ or ► t o select CHANNE L and press ENTER . 3. Use ▲ or ▼ to select the one you want to adjus t and ◄ or ► or ENTER to adju st th em.
- 33 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l PA R E N T A L This option a llows users to filte r TV programs and m ovies whi le using the TV tun er. To use this op tion yo u will need to enter i n the pass word firs t. 1. Press M ENU to open the OSD .
- 34 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l SETUP This option a llows user to adju s t the TV’s miscellaneous options. 1. Press M ENU to open the OSD . 2. Press ◄ or ► to select SETUP and pres s ENT ER . 3. Use ▲ or ▼ to select the one you want to adjus t and ◄ or ► or ENTER to adju st th em.
- 35 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l c) CC OPACITY – Thi s changes the transparency o f the captioning . d) TEXT COLOR – This changes the co lor of the text. e) CC BACKGROUND OPACITY – This c hanges the transpa rency of backgrou nd of the text.
- 36 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l OT H E R S This option allows users to set other features of the TV. 1. Press MENU t o open t he OSD. 2. Press ◄ or ► to select OTHERS and press ENT ER . 3. Use ▲ or ▼ to select the on e you want to adju st and ◄ or ► or ENTER to adjust them.
- 37 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Detailed Explana tions USB Connection Explained The TV is a widescre en TV with an USB port. With the USB port the TV can access USB f lash drives (up to 2GB) and di splay pi ct ures or play MP3 files.
- 38 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Media Setting 1. SLIDESHOW INTERVAL – This option adjusts th e time interval of a di splayed picture. 2. SLIDESHOW EFFECT – This option adjusts the video effects when pictures interc hange. 3.
- 39 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Closed Captioning (digit al and analog) Explained Your TV is eq uipped w ith an i nternal Closed Capt ion decoder. I t allows you to view conserva tions, narration a nd sound effects as subtitles o n your TV.
- 40 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l MHL Explained MHL ® s tands for mobile high defin ition link. I t is a protocol and cable that enabl es mobile dev ices (tablets, cell phon es…etc ) to be displayed and ch arging at th e same time on a TV.
- 41 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Dir ec t Function Buttons Direct function buttons allow the user to c ontrol c ertain spe cial func tions of the TV or the Sceptre So und Bar. Colo r Button s A-D The color buttons are dire ct function buttons that lets the user sw itch between t heir 3D and 2D modes.
- 42 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l ROKU Function Bu ttons Sceptre TVs support the ROKU stream ing stick. You can contr ol the ROKU stick with the PURPLE colored buttons. 1. ▲ / ▼ / ◄ / ► /ENTER – Under ROKU™ these buttons move your selection up, down, left, right.
- 43 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Ra tings Explained General Operation To block ch annels y ou don’t want y our children to wa tch, you can filter them with th e ratings function . MPAA lets you control ratings for movies. For regular TV programs you can use USTV settings.
- 44 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l PG-13 (MPAA) Parents strongly c autioned. Some material ma y be inapprop riate for chil dren under 13 . R (MPAA) Restricte d. Under 1 7 requires a ccompan ying paren t or adult guardian (age varies in so m e jurisdictions).
- 45 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Aspect Ra tio Explained The TV is a wides creen TV, but mo st TV programs are st ill broadcas ting in a sq uare format, therefore the TV is offering mul tiple ways of viewing vi deos.
- 46 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Shor tcuts to Br owsing Channels Browsing through the enti re channel list on the TV can be tediou s. This TV features a favorite channel list, where you can add in channels that you al ways want to watch TO ADD TO THE FAVORITE LIST 1.
- 47 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l How do I c lean the TV ? IMPORTANT 1. The power c able has to be re moved from the sock et befo re clean ing the TV. 2. Do not use volatile sol v ent (alcohol, rosin, and toluene) to clean the TV.
- 48 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l T r oub leshooting The followin g table c onta ins the com mon probl ems and the s olutions t o these problems. Please chec k this list be fo re you contac t the technicians. Problems Solutions Connect power c ord correc tly.
- 49 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Problems Solutions The TV’s tune r si gnal must not be lowe r than 65 %. Check your signal. WEAK SIGNAL OR NO PROGRAM SYMBOL ON SCREEN The TV’s tune r si gnal must not be lowe r than 65 %. Change the direc tion of y our anten na and res can your c hannels .
- 50 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Problems Solutions PICTURE QUALITY IS HORRIBLE!! For best imag e quality, v iew HD w idescreen progra ms where possible. If HD content is not available view “Standard Definition” from a digital source.
- 51 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Problems Solutions MY TV PICTUR E IS VERY DIM Check to see if you are unde r POWER SAVING mode for your picture mode. Keep pressi ng the PICTURE button on the remote control to cycle out of POWE R SAVING .
- 52 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Call Us If Y ou Need Help! Products are often returned due to a tech nical problem rather than a defective product that may res ult in unn ecessary sh ipping charges billed t o you. Our trained support personnel c an often reso lve t he problem over the phone or email.
- 53 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Specifica tion Display pa nel Item Illustration Active Area / Screen Size Class 48 (47.6” screen measured di agonally rom corner to corner) A s p e c t R a t i o Widescreen 16 :9 M a x .
- 54 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l (3) General Hybrid TV Tuner NTSC / ATSC Channel auto scan Yes Sleep timer Off / 10mins / 20m ins / 30mins / 40mins / 50mins / 60mins / 90mins / .
- 55 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l LIMITED PRODUCT WARRANTY Please read this war ranty card car efully, it is a “ONE-YEAR LI MITED WARRAN TY” on parts and labor (90 days for c.
- 56 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l display and routine mainte nance an d cleaning, are not covered by this war ranty. An y hardware, comp onents, and/o r softwar e bundled with the display are not covered by thi s warranty.
- 57 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l Disc laimer , T r ademar ks , & Cop yright Inf orma tion • “HDMI, t he HDMI logo and High-Definit ion Multimedia Interf ace are trad emarks or registe red trade marks of HD MI Licensing LLC.
- 58 - www.SCEPTRE. com SCEPTRE E485 HDTV Us er Manua l FCC Compliance Sta tement This dev ice complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is s ubject to th e following t wo conditi ons: (1) thi.
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