Samsung UA65JS9000W - User Manual

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Overview

Smart Features
Control and Interaction
Viewing Experience
Picture and Sound Quality
TV Viewing Support Features
System and Support

This document is an E-MANUAL for a Samsung product, likely a smart television, providing comprehensive instructions and information on its various features and functionalities.

Smart Features:

The device offers a range of smart features, including:

Smart Hub: This is the central interface for accessing live TV, movies, apps, and games. It allows for automatic launch, pinning/removing items from the Recent group, testing connections, and resetting. Users can also manage their Samsung account, including creation, sign-in, linking to external services, and profile editing.
GAMES Service: Users can download and play optimized game apps, categorized by Spotlight, Most Popular, What's New, and Top Grossing. Games can be managed (downloaded, removed, updated) and rated. Nicknames can be edited for the GAMES service. Automatic game updates can be enabled.
Apps Service: A wide range of content, including news, sports, weather, and games, can be accessed through apps. Apps can be installed, removed, locked/unlocked, updated, and rearranged. Users can also rate and share purchased content and configure channel-bound apps and tickers.
e-Manual: An embedded e-Manual provides information about the TV's key features, accessible by category and topic. It offers a search function, index, recent pages, and direct access to corresponding menu items.
Web Browser: Users can surf the internet, with browsing preferences such as general settings, home page, search engine, privacy & security, blocked/approved pages, and encoding options.
MY CONTENT Service: This service allows playback of media content (photos, videos, music) from connected storage devices like USB drives, mobile devices, and cameras. It supports various file formats and resolutions.
NewsON Service: Provides daily information on news and weather, updated in real-time.

Control and Interaction:

The device supports multiple control methods:

Samsung Smart Control: This remote features a POINTER button for on-screen navigation, directional buttons for menu navigation, and an Enter button for selection. It also includes buttons for On-screen Remote, volume/speaker adjustment, channel list, and Smart Hub launch. The remote can be paired and re-paired to the TV.
Voice Control: Voice recognition allows users to control the TV with voice commands. Settings include language selection, gender for TV voice, and trigger words. It supports both short-distance (via Samsung Smart Control microphone) and long-distance (via TV's built-in microphone for 9500 series models) recognition. Voice Recognition Environment Test helps optimize performance.
Motion Control: (For models with a camera) Motion control enables navigation and selection using hand gestures. Settings include pointer speed and an animated motion guide. Motion Control Environment Test helps ensure proper functionality.
Keyboard: USB and Bluetooth keyboards can be connected for text input and remote control functions (directional keys, menu access, volume, channel change). Keyboard settings allow for language and type selection.
Mouse: USB and Bluetooth mice can be connected for pointer control, scrolling, and item selection. Mouse settings allow for primary button selection and pointer speed adjustment.
Bluetooth Gamepad: Bluetooth gamepads can be connected for playing games downloaded from Smart Hub.
On-Screen QWERTY Keypad: Used for text entry, with additional functions like recommended text, text prediction, and language selection.

Viewing Experience:

Multi-Link Screen: Allows simultaneous viewing of TV, web browsing, and app usage, with adjustable screen sizes and audio source selection.
Sports Mode: Optimizes picture and sound settings for sports events, with options for zooming, manual highlights, and automatic highlight extraction.
3D Viewing: (For compatible models) Supports viewing 3D content with Samsung 3D Active Glasses, with various 3D modes (Normal, L/R, T/B) and adjustable 3D effects (Perspective, Depth, L/R Change, 3D to 2D, 3D Auto View, 3D Optimisation).
Picture-in-Picture (PIP): Allows viewing a TV broadcast in a small window while watching video from an external device on the main screen.

Picture and Sound Quality:

Picture Quality Adjustment: Offers various picture modes (Dynamic, Standard, Natural, Movie, Entertain, Stadium) and adjustable settings like Backlight, Contrast, Brightness, Sharpness, Colour, Tint (G/R), Dynamic Contrast, Black Tone, Flesh Tone, RGB Only Mode, and Colour Space. Picture options include Colour Tone, Digital Clean View, MPEG Noise Filter, HDMI Black Level, HDMI UHD Color, Film Mode, Auto Motion Plus, Analogue Clean View, Smart LED, and Cinema Black.
Sound Quality Adjustment: Offers various sound modes (Standard, Music, Movie, Clear Voice, Amplify, Stadium) and adjustable sound effects like Virtual Surround, Dialog Clarity, Headphone Surround, Balance, and Equaliser. Sound Customiser allows for personalized sound profiles.
Sound Support Functions: Includes speaker selection, TV installation type (Wall Mount/Stand), listening through Samsung Bluetooth audio devices (TV SoundConnect), and Bluetooth headphones.
Digital Audio Output: Settings for DTV Audio Level, HDMI Audio Format, Audio Format, Audio Delay, and Dolby Digital Comp.
3D Audio: (For compatible models) Allows adjustment of audio depth for immersive 3D sound.

TV Viewing Support Features:

Subtitles: Enables viewing of TV broadcasts with subtitles, with options for subtitle mode (Normal, Hearing Impaired) and language.
Channel Scanning: Automatically scans and indexes all channels received through the antenna.
Broadcast Audio Language: Selects preferred audio languages and formats.
Audio Description: Provides audio descriptions for the visually impaired.
Channel Settings: Allows setting the country/area, manual tuning of broadcast signals (digital and analogue), fine-tuning the screen, transferring channel lists, reading digital text, and changing teletext language.
Channel List: Displays a list of channels, including history, and allows for adding new lists and filtering by category.
Channel Management: Registering, removing, and editing channels, including setting favourites, renaming, and enabling/disabling password protection.
Schedule Viewing: Sets up scheduled viewing for digital and analogue channels, with options to edit or cancel.
Timeshift: Pauses and rewinds live TV, with functions for step, slow motion, rewind/fast forward, and recording.
Recording Programmes: Instant and scheduled recording of programmes, with options for managing recorded files (filter, sort, delete, play selected).

System and Support:

Time and Timer: Setting current time (manual or automatic), sleep timer, and on timer.
Screen Burn Protection and Energy Saving: Auto Protection Time to prevent screen burn, and Eco Solution for energy saving (Energy Saving, Eco Sensor, No Signal Power Off, Auto Power Off, Motion Lighting).
Anynet+ (HDMI-CEC): Controls external devices connected via HDMI using the TV remote.
Software Update: Updates TV software (manual or automatic) and backs up TV data with UHD Evolution Kit.
Security: Smart Security protects against hacking and malicious code, with scanning and quarantine functions.
Accessibility: Accessibility Shortcuts for quick access to Voice Guide, Menu Transparency, Audio Description, High Contrast, Enlarge, Subtitle, Learn About your Remote Control, and Multi-output Audio.
Other Functions: Adjusting menu transparency, white text on black background (high contrast), enlarging font, learning about the remote control, Indian Cinema Mode, changing menu language, setting a password, checking notifications, adjusting viewing angle, enabling game mode, BD Wise for picture quality, sound feedback, locking/unlocking control stick, showing/hiding Samsung logo while booting, faster boot, front indicators, removing flickering, welcome sound, stand light, and DivX certification.
Troubleshooting: Provides solutions for common problems related to picture, sound, 3D images, broadcast, internet connectivity, apps, file playback, and general TV issues.
Precautions and Notes: Information on recording and timeshift functions, 3D mode, S Recommendation, apps, web browser, media files, and supported resolutions for UHD input signals, HDMI, Component, Digital channel, and Bluetooth devices.
Glossary: Definitions of technical terms like 480i/p, 720p, 1080i/p, ARC, DVI, HDMI, Dynamic/Static IP, Bluetooth, Ethernet, and Component Connection.