Philips 248c3lhsb User Manual

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There are seven modes to be selected: Text, 
Office, Photo, Movie, Game, Economy and Off.
•  Text: Helps improve reading of text based 
application like PDF ebooks.  By using a special 
algorithm which increases the contrast and 
boundar y sharpness of text content, the 
display is optimized for a stress-free reading 
by adjusting the brightness, contrast and color 
temperature of the monitor.
•  Office: Enhances text and dampens brightness 
to increase readability and reduce eye...

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3.2 SmartKolor 
  What is it? 
Smar tKolor is a special color extension technology 
that is able to enhance visual color range to 
deliver vivid and rich picture performance.  
  Why do I need it? 
You want the rich, vibrant images for experiencing 
the outstanding photos or videos.
  How does it work? 
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Smar tKolor will dynamically enhance color 
saturation and extend visual color range to enrich 
color quality and  performance of your viewing 
images. Smar tKolor is turned off...

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 Installation
•  Follow the instruction and complete the 
installation. 
•  You can launch after installation is completed. 
•  If you want to launch later, you can either click 
the shor tcut on desktop or toolbar.
3.5  Philips SmartControl Premium
The new Smar tControl Premium 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...

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

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Color menu: 
•  Color Menu allow you to adjust RGB, Black 
Level, White Point, Color Calibration, and 
Smar tImage (Please refer to Smar tImage 
section). 
•  You can follow the instruction and do the 
adjustment. 
•  Refer to below table for sub-menu item base 
on your input. 
•  Example for Color Calibration 
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.  To return...

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ECO
Theft Deterrence Pane will only be active when 
selecting Theft Deterrence Mode from the drop-
down Plug Ins menu. First color Calibration Screen: 
•  Previous button is disabled until the second 
color screen. 
•  Next goes to the succeeding target (6-targets). 
•  Final next goes File>Presets pane. 
•  Cancel closes the UI and returns to the plug 
in page.
SmartImage 
Allows user to change setting for better display 
setting based on content.
When Enter tainment is set,...

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To enable Theft Deterrence, clicking Enable Theft 
Deterrence Mode button brings up the following 
screen:
•  User can enter PIN between 4 and 9 digits 
numbers only. 
•  After entering PIN, Accept button takes user 
to the pop-up dialog box on the following 
page. 
•  Minimum minutes set to 5. Slider set to 5 by 
default. 
•  Does not require the display be attached to 
a different host to go into Theft Deterrence 
mode.
After creating PIN, the Theft Deterrence pane will...

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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 Premium tabs are not available.
•  Display the Source instruction pane and 
current input source setting. 
•  On single input displays, this pane will not be 
visible.Options>Audio - Will only be active when 
selecting Volume from the drop-down Options 
menu.
On a...

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Help>User Manual - Will only be active when 
selecting User Manual from the drop-down Help 
menu. On a non-suppor ted display capable of 
DDC/CI, only the Help and Options tabs are 
available.
Help>Version - Will only be active when selecting 
Version from the drop- down Help menu. On a 
non-suppor ted display capable of DDC/CI, only 
the Help and Options tabs are available.Context Sensitive menu
The Context Sensitive menu is Enabled by default. 
If Enable Context Menu has been...

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Task Tray Menu Enabled
The task tray menu can be displayed by right-
clicking on the Smar tControl Premium icon from 
the task tray. Left Click will launch the application.
The task tray has five entries:
•  Help - Access to User Manual file: Open User 
Manual file using the default browser window. 
•  Technical Suppor t - displays the tech suppor t 
page. 
•  Check for Update - takes the user to PDI 
Landing and checks the users version against 
the most current available. 
•...