Philips 273p3lphes User Manual

							9 vOffice: Enhances text and dampens 
brightness to increase readability and 
reduce eye strain. This mode significantly 
enhances readability and productivity when 
you’re working with spreadsheets, PDF files, 
scanned ar ticles or other general office 
applications.
vPhoto: This profile combines color 
saturation, dynamic contrast and sharpness 
enhancement to display photos and other 
images with outstanding clarity in vibrant 
colors - all without ar tifacts and faded 
colors.
vMovie: Ramped up luminance, deepened 
color saturation, dynamic contrast and 
razor sharpness displays ever y details in 
darker areas of your videos without color 
washout in brighter areas maintaining a 
dynamic natural values for the ultimate 
video display.
vGame: Turn on over drive circuit for best 
response time, reduce jaggy edges for fast 
moving objects on screen, enhance contrast 
ratio for bright and dark scheme, this 
profile delivers the best gaming experience 
for gamers.
vEconomy: Under this profile, brightness, 
contrast are adjusted and backlighting 
finetuned for just right display of ever yday 
office applications and lower power 
consumption.
vOff: No optimization by Smar tImage.
3.2 SmartContrast
What is it? 
Unique technology that dynamically analyzes 
displayed content and automatically optimizes 
a Monitor's contrast ratio for maximum visual 
clarity and viewing enjoyment, stepping up 
backlighting for clearer, crisper and brighter 
images or dimming backlighting for clear display 
of images on dark backgrounds. 
Why do I need it? 
You want the ver y best visual clarity and 
viewing comfor t for ever y type of content. 
Smar tContrast dynamically controls contrast 
and adjusts backlighting for clear, crisp, bright 
gaming and video images or displays clear, 
readable text for office work. By reducing your 
monitor's power consumption, you save on 
energy costs and extend the lifetime of your 
monitor. 
How does it work? 
When you activate Smar tContrast, it will analyse 
the content you are displaying in real time to 
adjust colors and control backlight intensity. This 
function will dynamically enhance contrast for a 
great enter tainment experience when viewing 
videos or playing games.
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3.3 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 
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 
Icon based software is ready to enhance your 
experience with Philips monitors!
Installation
vFollow the instruction and complete the 
installation. 
vYou can launch after installation is 
completed. 
vIf you want to launch later, you can either 
click the shor tcut on desktop or toolbar.
First launch -Wizard
‡The f irst time af ter installation of Smar t-
Control Premium, it will automatically go 
to Wizard for f irst time launch. 
‡The wizard will guide you through adjust-
ment your monitor per formance step by 
step. ‡You can go to Plug-in menu to launch 
wizard later on as well. 
‡You can adjust more options without 
wizard by Standard pane.
Start with Standard pane
Adjust menu
‡Adjust Menu allow you to adjust Bright-
ness, Contrast, Focus, Position and Reso-
lution. 
‡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 Calibra-
tion, 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.
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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. To return to Color home pane, click the 
Cancel button. 
5. Enable color calibration - by default is on. 
If unchecked, does not allow for color 
calibration to happen, dimes out star t and 
quick view buttons. 
6. Must have patent info in calibration screen.
First color Calibration Screen 
‡Previous button is disabled until the sec-
ond color screen. 
‡Nex t goes to the succeeding target 
(6 -t a r get s). 
‡Finally go to File > Presets pane. 
‡Cancel closes the UI and returns to the 
plug in page.
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SmartImage
Allows user to change setting for better display 
setting based on content.
When Enter tainment is set, Smar tContrast and 
Smar tResponse are enabled.
ECO
Theft Deterrence Pane will only be active when 
selecting Theft Deterrence Mode from the 
drop-down Plug Ins menu.
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 fol-
lowing 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 Thef t Deter-
rence mode.
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							14 After creating PIN, the Theft Deterrence pane 
will indicate Theft Deterrence Enabled and 
provide PIN Options button:
‡Theft Deterrence Enabled is displayed. 
‡Disable Thef t Deterrence Mode opens 
pane screen on next page. 
‡PIN Options button only available af ter 
user creates PIN, button opens secure 
PIN web site.
Options>Preferences - Will only be active 
when selecting Preferences from the drop-
down Options menu. On a non-suppor ted 
display capable of DDC/CI, only the Help and 
Options tabs are available.
‡Displays current preference settings. 
‡A checked box enables the feature. The 
check box is a toggle. 
‡Enable Contex t Menu on desk top is 
checked (On) by default. Enable Contex t 
menu displays Smar tControl Premium se-
lections for Select Preset and Tune Display 
in the desk top right-click contex t menu. 
Disabled removes Smar tControl Premium 
from the right click contex t menu. 
‡Enable Task Tray icon is checked (On) by 
default. Enable contex t menu shows the 
task tray menu for Smar tControl Pre-
mium. A right click on the task tray icon 
displays the menu options for Help, Tech-
nical Suppor t. Check for Update, About, 
and Exit. When Enable task tray menu is 
disabled, the task tray icon will only display 
EXIT. 
‡Run at Star tup is checked (On) by default. 
When disabled, Smar tControl Premium 
will not launch at star t or be in the task 
tray. The only way to launch Smar tControl 
Premium is either from the desk top shor t 
cut or from the program f ile. Any preset 
set to run at star tup will not load when 
this box is unchecked (Disabled). 
‡Enable transparency mode  (Windows 7, 
Vista, XP). Default is 0% Opaque.
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							15 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 Audio from the drop-down Options 
menu.
On a non-suppor ted display capable of DDC/
CI, only the Help and Options tabs are available. 
Option>Auto Pivot
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							16 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 
checked in the Options>Preferences pane, then 
the menu will be visible.
The Context Menu has four entries:
‡SmartControl Premium - When selected 
the About Screen is displayed. 
‡Select Preset - Provides a hierarchical 
menu of saved presets for immediate 
use. A check mark shows the currently 
selected preset. Facoty Preset can also be 
called from the drop down menu. 
‡Tune Display - Opens the Smar tControl 
Premium control panel. 
‡SmartImage - Check current settings, Of-
f ice, Photo, Movie, Game, Economy, Off.
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.
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							17 The task tray has five entries:
‡Help - Access to User Manual f ile: Open 
User Manual f ile using the default browser 
window. 
‡Technical Support - displays the tech sup-
por t page. 
‡Check for Update - takes the user to PDI 
Landing and checks the user’s version 
against the most current available. 
‡About - Displays detailed reference infor-
mation: product version, release informa-
tion, and product name. 
‡Exit - Close Smar tControl Premium.
To run Smar tControl Premium again 
either select Smar tControl Premium 
from Program menu, double-click the 
desk top PC icon or restar t the system.
Task Tray Menu Disabled
When the Task Tray is disabled in the preference 
folder, only the EXIT selection is available. To 
completely remove Smar tControl Premium 
from the task tray, disable Run at Star tup in 
Options>Preferences.  
3.4 SmartDesktop Guide
SmartDesktop
Smar tDesktop is in Smar tControl Premium.  
Install Smar tControl Premium and select 
Smar tDesktop from Options.
‡Align to par tition check box will enable 
automatic alignment for the window when 
dragged into the def ined par tition. 
‡Select the desired par tition by clicking on 
the icon.  The par tition will be applied to 
the desk top and the icon will be high-
lighted.
vIdentify provides a quick way to view the 
grid.
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Drag and Drop Windows
Once the par titions are configured and Align to 
par tition is selected a window can be dragged 
into the region and it will automatically align.  
When the window and mouse cursor are within 
the region, the region will become highlighted.
Note
If the outline of the region is not visible when 
dragging the window, “Show windows contents 
while dragging” is disabled.  To enable:
1. In Control Panel, click System.
2. Click Advanced system settings  (For Vista 
& Win7 OS, this is located on the left 
sidebar).
3. In Performance section, click Settings.
4. In the box, check Show window contents 
while dragging, and click OK.
Other alternative path:
Vista:
Control Panel > Personalization > Window 
Color and Appearance > Click "Open Classic 
appearance proper ties for more color options" 
> Click "Effects" button > check Show window 
contents while dragging.
XP:
Display Proper ties>Appearance>Effects...> 
check Show window contents while dragging.
Win 7:
No other alternative path available.
Title Bar Options
Desktop par tition can be accessed from the title 
bar of the active window.  This provides a quick 
and easy way to manage the desktop as well as 
sending any window to any par tition without 
having to drag and drop.  Move the cursor into 
the active window’s title bar to access the drop 
down menu.
Right Click Menu
Right click on the Desktop Par tition icon to 
view the drop down menu.
‡Find Windows – In some cases, the user 
may have sent multiple windows to the 
same par tition.  Find Windows will show 
all open windows and move the selected 
window to the forefront.
‡Desktop Partition – Desk top Par tition 
shows the current selected par tition and 
allows the user to quickly change to any of 
the par titions shown in the drop down.
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