Philips 243e2sb User Manual

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3.1 SmartImage Lite
  What is it?
Smar tImage Lite provides presets that optimize 
display for different types of content, dynamically 
adjusting brightness, contrast, color and sharpness 
in real time. Whether youre working with text 
applications, displaying images or watching a video, 
Philips Smar tImage Lite delivers great optimized 
monitor performance.
  Why do I need it?
You want a monitor that delivers optimized display 
all your favorite types of content, Smar tImage Lite 
software...

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There are 3 modes to be selected: Standard, 
Inter

net, and Game.
 Standard: 
•  Enhances text and dampens 
brightness to increase readability and reduce 
eye strain. This mode significantly enhances 
readability and productivity when youre 
working with spreadsheets, PDF files, scanned 
ar ticles or other general office applications.
 Internet: 
•  This profile combines color 
saturation, dynamic contrast and sharpness 
enhancement to display photos and other 
images with outstanding clarity in...

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3.3  Philips SmartControl Lite
The new Smar

tControl Lite software by Phillips 
allows you to control your monitor via an easy 
to use on-screen graphic interface.  Complicated 
adjustments are a thing of the past as this user 
friendly software guides you through 
fine-tuning resolution, Color calibration, 
Clock/Phase adjustments, RGB White point 
adjustment, etc.  
Equipped with latest technology in core algorithm 
for fast processing and response, this Windows 
7 compliant eye catching animated...

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 Start with Standard pane:
Adjust menu:  Adjust Menu allow you to adjust Brightness, 
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Contrast, Focus, Position and Resolution. 
 You can follow the instruction and do the 
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adjustment. 
 Cancel prompts user if you want to cancel 
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installation. 
 

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Color menu:  Color Menu allow you to adjust RGB, Black 
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Level, White Point, Color Calibration, and 
Smar tImage Lite (Please refer to Smar tImage 
Lite section). 
 You can follow the instruction and do the 
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adjustment. 
 Refer to below table for sub-menu item base 
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on your input. 
Example for Color Calibration
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1.  Show Me star ts color calibration tutorial. 
2.  Star
t - star ts the 6-step color calibration 
sequence. 
3.  Quick View loads the before/after images.
4.   T
o return to Color...

14Displays current preference settings. 
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 A check
 ed box enables the feature. The check 
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box is a toggle. 
 Enable Context Menu on desktop is checked 
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(On) by default. Enable Context menu 
displays Smar tControl Lite selections for 
Select Preset and Tune Display in the desktop 
right-click context menu. Disabled removes 
Smar tControl Lite from the right click context 
menu. 
 Enable Task Tray icon is checked (On) by 
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default. Enable context menu shows the task 
tray menu for Smar tControl...

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Options>Input - 

Will only be active when 
selecting Input from the drop-down Options 
menu. On a non-suppor ted display capable of 
DDC/CI, only the Help and Options tabs are 
available. All other Smar tControl Lite tabs are not 
available.
  • Display the Source instruction pane and 
current input source setting. 
  • On single input displays, this pane will not be 
visible.
Help>User Manual  - Will only be active when 
selecting User Manual from the drop-down Help 
menu. On a non-suppor ted...

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The task tray has five entries:
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Help - Access to User Manual file: Open 
User Manual file using the default browser 
window. 
 Technical Suppor t - displays the tech 
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suppor t page. 
 Check for Update - takes the user to PDI 
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Landing and checks the users version 
against the most current available. 
 About - Displays detailed reference 
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information: product version, release 
information, and product name. 
 Exit - Close Smar tControl 
 • Lite
To run Smar tControl Lite again either 
select...

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3.4  
Philips Flat Panel Monitors Pix
 el Defect 
Policy
Philips strives to deliver the highest quality 
products. We use some of the industr ys most 
advanced manufacturing processes and practice 
stringent quality control. However, pixel or sub 
pixel defects on the TFT LCD panels used in flat 
panel monitors are sometimes unavoidable. No 
manufacturer can guarantee that all panels will 
be free from pixel defects, but Philips guarantees 
that any monitor with an unacceptable number 
of defects will...

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 Note
A red or blue bright dot must be more  than 50 
percent brighter than neighboring dots while 
a green bright dot is 30 percent brighter than 
neighboring dots.
Black Dot Defects 
Black dot def
 ects appear as pixels or sub pixels 
that are always dark or off. That is, a dark dot is 
a sub-pixel that stands out on the screen when 
the monitor displays a light pattern. These are the 
types of black dot defects: Proximity of Pixel Defects 
Because pixel and sub pixels defects of the same 
type that...